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Release base paper supplyRelease paper/film supplyRelease base paperRelease agent layerAdhesive layerFacestockSpecialty papersRelease papers / filmsAdhesive productsMarketsPapermakingRelease agent development / coatingAdhesive development / coating, attachmentTopic01Topic0237LINTEC INTEGRATED REPORT 2019Synergies Between Core Adhesive Operations and Paper and Converted Products OperationsWe use original papermaking technologies to manufacture and sell a wide range of papers for envelopes, special function papers, and other products. In addition, we also produce high-quality release base paper that is supplied to other units of the Company. Furthermore, leveraging superior release formula technologies and coating technologies, we supply a wide range of customers with release paper that uses this base paper and with optimal release films for applications that require high levels of smoothness and cleanliness. At the same time, we also provide these release papers and films for the LINTEC Group’s various adhesive products.Through these initiatives, we have established an integrated production system for adhesive products, and in our core adhesive operations, this system gives us a competitive advantage in quality, cost, and delivery. These adhesive operations support the utilization rates of the Company’s papermaking and release coating facilities and are also the source of competitiveness in Paper and Converted Products Operations, which are based on small-lot production of a wide range of products.Initiatives to Reduce Environmental ImpactFor LINTEC, which is also a papermaking company, major issues that must be addressed to record sustained growth include the use of resources from forests that have been appropriately managed, the expanded use of pulp from recycled paper and non-wood pulp, and reductions in the amounts of water, heat energy, etc., used in manufacturing processes. Accordingly, the Company is implementing initiatives in the areas of manufactur-ing management and equipment, working to strengthen its lineup of forest certified products, and enacting other measures. In addition, a move away from the use of plastic is currently the focus of growing attention, and paper is the most frequently mentioned substitute material. LINTEC participates in the CLOMA,* an organization that aims to resolve the problem of plastic waste in the oceans, and we have started to consider the development of a variety of film substitute products, such as base paper for straws.For release papers and films, in April 2018 we introduced state-of-the-art coating facility that contributes to reductions in the amounts of organic solvents used in the release agent coating process. We are also working from an R&D perspective to improve release formulas.*CLOMA: Clean Ocean Material AllianceTopicsPaper products that use forest-certified pulpState-of-the-art coating facility introduced at the Kumagaya Plant (Saitama Prefecture)Integrated Production System for Adhesive ProductsEstablishment of Integrated Production SystemESGStrategyOverviewFinancial Information