Business Strategies - Mobility

Mission of Mobility Business

Strengths and Competitive Advantages for the Achievement of the Long-Term Vision

We will make use of Resonac’s strengths and competitive advantages to become a world-class functional chemical company and a company that can compete on the world stage by 2030.

Automotive products:

• Molded plastic exterior products (resin rear door modules and resin foam molded products), whose strengths lie in weight reduction and design flexibility required for electric vehicles (BEVs)
• In composite materials, maintenance of our leading domestic share for mainstay plastic gears while developing heat control products, such as radiators, for which demand is expected to increase in line with the spread of EVs
• Unique aluminum alloy design technology that provides durability and wear resistance not found in general-purpose aluminum alloy
• High-level aluminum manufacturing technology that enables the extrusion, joint brazing, horizontal continuous casting, etc., of large complex shapes that are difficult to manufacture
• Provision of high-performance, wear-resistant brake pads that comply with European environmental regulations (EURO7)

Lithium-ion battery materials:

• Provision of anode materials that realize lithium-ion batteries with greater capacity and superior charge-discharge load characteristics
• VGCF that contributes to increased capacity and battery lifespan

Strategies of Mobility Business for the Achievement of the Long-Term Vision

In the mobility business, we regard the increasing needs for CASE technologies, particularly the expansion of needs driven by the progress of xEVs, as a business opportunity. Based on this recognition, we will make use of our technologies for weight reduction, electrification and thermal control as our growth strategy for the further growth of our business. On the other hand, in the business targeting ICE vehicles, for which the market is shrinking, we will optimize production capacity and reduce fixed expenses to establish a resilient revenue base. In this way, we will manage our business portfolio to achieve EBITDA margin exceeding 20%.

Vision for 2030 and Roadmap to Achieve It

TOPICS 2024 of Mobility Business

Controlling Physical Properties of Aluminum Alloy and Visualizing CO₂ Emission Flow through Computational Science

As part of our efforts to achieve carbon neutrality, we are focusing on the development of aluminum alloy, which is seeing an increase in demand from the automotive industry, with the help of computational science. Aluminum is lightweight and consumes less energy during the recycling process, which can significantly reduce CO₂ emissions. In aluminum recycling, it is crucial to better preserve the properties of aluminum while increasing the utilization of scrap containing impurity elements.

The key to obtaining the properties of aluminum alloy and other metallic materials, which change as the raw materials undergo various processes, is controlling the material structure. By controlling the behaviors of impurity elements derived from scrap in a sub-micron order, we have successfully developed aluminum alloy that contributes to carbon neutrality. By collaborating with respective analytical technologies, using computational science simulations that enable us to understand physical phenomena in detail, we are working to clarify the mechanisms of property expression and obtain guidelines for mass production processes.

We are also actively working on the calculation and reduction of CO₂ emissions associated with aluminum alloy production at manufacturing sites. In addition to building a CO₂ emission simulator based on manufacturing processes using computational science, we are establishing a workflow that anticipates fluctuations in CO₂ emissions and the possibility of resource recycling throughout the supply chain. We believe that this adds to the significance of us providing recycled aluminum alloys to our customers, and contributes to optimizing CO₂ reductions with an eye to achieving carbon neutrality across the entire supply chain.

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