The Industrial Gases and Chemical segments have been integrated as both of them are related to semiconductor manufacturing. The electronics industry is growing at an accelerating pace, and we provide a wide range of products and services to it, including gases, electronic materials and related materials to help create a smart society. We have a long history in industrial gas supply. In this domain, we provide solution services that propose the gas supply systems best suited to our customer's applications through our regional operating companies based in Hokkaido, East Japan and West Japan. In recent years, we have been focusing on overseas business with a view toward future growth. We are currently working to expand our industrial gas businesses in India and North America.
An energy infrastructure operator continuing to move forward with local communities, Air Water has been delivering liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene for more than a half century since the early days of the Japanese LPG market. We are working vigorously on new energy solutions, such as systems for transporting and storing liquefied natural gas (LNG) and mobile power generation vehicles using LPG. We have now integrated the Energy business and the Environment business to build a new business model involved in resource recycling and clean energy with the goal of helping solve the challenge of creating a carbon-free, resource-circulating society.
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Industrial gases refer generally to gases broadly used in industry as raw or intermediate materials for manufacturing or to improve quality, reduce energy consumption or ensure safety. Commonly used gases include oxygen, hydrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and helium. We deliver them in the manners best suited to the customer's conditions of use. The Air Water Group has a business network that covers the entire country. We operate comprehensive solution services, ready to stably supply gases in many different ways ranging from delivery using cylinders or tank trucks to supply by piping the gases from generation systems.
We also provide a wide variety of industrial equipment including gas equipment for effectively using the characteristics of industrial gases. Through this, we are able to respond to the diverse needs of industry and lifestyles to support the foundation of industry.
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We deal in a wide variety of special gases and special chemicals used in the electronics sector, including in the production of semiconductors and liquid crystal panels. We provide an extensive array of systems to safely and stably supply these chemical materials to semiconductor manufacturing systems, refining and treatment systems as well as components and related devices for semiconductor manufacturing systems.
The electronics industry has expanded considerably since the beginning of the pandemic. We mainly provide technologies and solutions developed following the integration of the Industrial Gases and Chemical businesses to this sector to respond to the needs for state-of-the-art technologies that are growing more diverse and advanced.
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We supply electronic materials and other functional chemical products through research and development in anticipation of social change and through innovation that responds to the development needs of our customers. Aside from materials, we support the semiconductor manufacturing process through our group companies' businesses engaging in the manufacturing of circuit products and materials, new substrate materials, precision polishing pads, high performance O-rings (sealing materials) and other products.
We also provide high value-added products to meet the extensive needs of our customers as we work to realize a smart society in harmony with nature. These products include organic acid products that are vinyl chloride plasticizers, quinone-based products from which drugs and agricultural chemicals are produced, sodium acetate which is a functional food material, high performance phenolic resins.
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The core technology of the Industrial Gases business is process engineering for cryogenic air separation. Using this technology, we provide one-stop services including the design, manufacturing, construction and maintenance of industrial gas generators, piping facilities and an array of gas equipment.
We supply LPG under the Hello Gas brand name mainly in Hokkaido, where we have a sales network that includes more than 100 bases. In addition, we operate locally-based life solution businesses including kerosene sales and housing renovation businesses.
We are also focusing our efforts on the expansion of LNG-related businesses in light of the growing worldwide demand for LNG amid the trend towards reduced environmental impact. We offer engineering services for supply facilities with the use of our technologies and know-how cultivated through our original Industrial Gases business to help build a carbon-free society.
We will combine the Air Water Group's array of businesses and technological innovation to develop and provide new materials with reduced environmental impact and to develop a sustainable model of energy supply for the regional circulation of resources.
We actively develop technologies for the effective utilization of food waste, livestock manure, thinned wood and other unused resources as sources of energy and carry out the verification of businesses in an intensive effort to implement solutions for decarbonization that include local production and local consumption.
Currently, the Air Water Group is accelerating its global expansion in the Indian and North American markets that it has defined as strategic regions. In India, we are expanding the on-site gas supply business for steel production to enable an expansion from the eastern and southern parts of the country where we currently have bases into the northern and western regions. In North America, we are working to expand the engineering business for hydrogen- and carbon dioxide-related equipment and to establish an industrial gas supply business.
