Development policy/system

• Development policy
• Development system

Development policy

Our goal is not only to provide the value of things such as function and quality, but also to provide people's hearts and value that resonates with the senses to people around the world, and to realize a sustainable society that enriches people's hearts.
Based on this idea, we are working to create innovation by pursuing new technologies and making full use of new methodologies, and to strengthen the Group's technological foundation.
We will further strengthen artience group our core materials and core technologies, which are our strengths, specifically our material design technologies for colorants and polymers, our dispersion technologies, and our coatings technologies, and in addition to the development of new products, new technologies, and new production technologies, we will also take on the challenge of developing new businesses and provide new value to people around the world that will shake their sensibilities.

Policy (1) Development of new products, technologies, and new production technologies in strategic, high priority business groups

In its management plan artience 2027/2030 "GROWTH," artience group has identified three strategic priority business groups: mobility and battery-related businesses, displays and advanced electronics-related businesses, and next-generation businesses such as the environment, biotechnology, and energy, from the perspective of market growth potential and areas where we can utilize our technologies.
In these fields, we aim to strengthen and expand the R&D and production technology functions of the entire Group by developing new products through collaboration with domestic and overseas operating companies, strengthening exploration activities, developing new technologies by promoting innovation projects, and acquiring new production technologies in preparation for future smart factories, labor-saving, and time-saving production.

Management plan  artience 2027/2030 "GROWTH"

Policy (2) Expansion through the development of new products and businesses overseas

In order to develop new products and businesses that meet the local needs unique to that base overseas, we will combine the wisdom of Japan engineers with overseas technical members and local universities.
In addition, in addition to building our own overseas development system, such as the establishment of overseas R&D, we will work to recruit and train key overseas technical personnel and develop specialized engineers.

Policy (3) Taking on the challenge of new R&D methods

Transforming R&D methods by integrating technology platforms with generative AI, MI, and computational chemistry

The technologies we have cultivated so far have been created in a database as a technology platform, but we will further evolve this to make it visible and usable.
We should keep sound records about the objectives of experiments, discussions and what the engineers thought about them in addition to the results and make sure that the data can be easily retrieved. By utilizing AI, we will make it easier to search and make it easier to get the answers you want. By utilizing generative AI, MI, and computational chemistry, we will revitalize the accumulation of technologies, technology exploration, and new business development in domestic and overseas research activities.

Technology Platform

Further expansion of open innovation

If we cannot achieve this by accumulating only our own resources in order to establish a technology that can beat our competitors, we believe that it will be necessary to acquire new technologies from the outside.
We will strengthen collaboration with universities, academia, startups, and partner companies in Japan and overseas, think from a backcast perspective, have a story that develops, and develop it with an eye on our future core business while valuing the uniqueness of artience.

Utilization of Strategic Intellectual Property in Business

We are working to turn newly developed technologies into patents, and we will also turn the technologies that we take for granted and already use into patents. In addition, the speed with which we apply for a patent is vital when it comes to intellectual property. We embarked on activities for to realize AI-assisted intellectual property management with the goal of quickly securing intellectual property rights for inventions and creations using artificial intelligence. We will strategically utilize intellectual property to strongly aid sales activities.

Development system

We have a development system divided into three tiers: short- and medium-term development based on business activities at operating company technology departments/laboratories, and long-term development by the holdings research institute with an eye on the group's future business. We aim to create sustainable innovation through technological synergies between each organization.

Laboratory Overview