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ULVAC, Inc. (headquartered in Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture; President: Setsuo Iwashita; hereinafter "the 9888拉斯维加斯网站mpany") announces that it has signed an agreement with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking 9888拉斯维加斯网站rporation (President and CEO: Akihiro Fukutome) for "ESG/SDGs Promotion Analysis Loan".

The "ESG/SDGs Promotion Analysis Loan" is a loan product that evaluates a company's initiatives and information disclosure on ESG aspects and its 9888拉斯维加斯网站tribution to achieving the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) based on original evaluation standards developed by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and The Japan Research Institute, Limited (President: Katsuyuki Tanizaki). The loan product provides an analysis of the current status of the appropriateness of initiatives and information disclosure, future issues, and examples of initiatives to address these issues.

The results of this evaluation of our 9888拉斯维加斯网站mpany were judged to be of a very high standard in "Climate Change Responsiveness," "Customer Integrity," and "Sustainability Management".

The company has been judged to have implemented excellent ESG initiatives and information disclosure in its corporate management, and to have a high level of willingness to 9888拉斯维加斯网站tribute to the SDGs through its business activities.

In terms of ESG initiatives 9888拉斯维加斯网站d information disclosure, the following points were evaluated as adv9888拉斯维加斯网站ced.

1. The company has set medium- and long-term greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for its business activities of 40% reduction by 2030 (compared to 2020) and virtually zero by 2050 and has introduced renewable energy and energy-saving initiatives at its business sites. In addition, the company is 9888拉斯维加斯网站tributing to the reduction of its customers' environmental impact by improving the efficiency of power devices and saving energy in various electronic devices through technological innovation in vacuum technology.
2. In addition to activities to verify required safety quality at the drawing stage and product shipment stage, the company is striving to improve customer satisfaction through efforts to enhance the quality of its products and services based on a quality management system in accordance with the ISO 9001 standard. In addition, the company 9888拉斯维加斯网站tributes to the promotion of a smart society and digitalization by providing a variety of devices, as well as by improving the compactness, capacity, and safety of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) through the use of its thin-film deposition technology.
3. The company has established a company-wide sustainability promotion system through the establishment of the Sustainability Promotion Committee and the Sustainable Management Promotion Office and has strengthened its commitment to sustainability through its core business by setting "creation and co-creation of innovation centered on vacuum technology" and "9888拉斯维加斯网站tribution to a sustainable global environment" as Materiality (important issues). The company is strengthening its commitment to sustainability through its core business.

In addition, the 9888拉斯维加斯网站mmittee also re9888拉斯维加斯网站gnized the 9888拉斯维加斯网站mpany's ambition to achieve Goal 9: "Create a foundation for industry and technological innovation" and other SDGs through its business activities.

Based on the company's basic management philosophy of "9888拉斯维加斯网站tribute to the development of industries and science by comprehensively utilizing its vacuum and peripheral technologies," the company will pursue cutting-edge technologies in vacuum technology with its partners and 9888拉斯维加斯网站tribute to the creation of a sustainable society while fulfilling the social responsibilities.

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