Mimaki Innovation 30
Basic Policy
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1Maintain and improve stable profitability
- Continue the growth of the core businesses and pursue a higher gross margin.
- Maintain a net sales CAGR of 10% or higher and seek to achieve net sales of 150 billion yen and an operating margin of 8% or higher in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2030 (FY2029).
- Continually launch innovative products to achieve a new product vitality index (NPVI) of 30%.
* NPVI: New Product Vitality Index
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2Drive innovations by taking on new business domains
- Pursue opportunities in high viscosity domains such as paints and industrial functional materials. Aim for significant expansion in the IP market by advancing into the Digital Paint field.
- Work to launch a digital signage business using flexible organic electro-luminescence (EL) sheets.
- Launch a second brand, Mimaki La-Meccanica, to enter the printer and cutting plotter peripherals markets.
- Accelerate the advancement of the 3D printer business. Expand and develop 3D printing into a new pillar of the core business.
- During the five years of Mimaki Innovation 30 (FY2025-FY2029), the Group allocates 1-2% of net sales for investment in new domains, separate from existing development investment.
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3Establish a structure for managing the development of technology and expand human capital
- Increase the speed of new product development and build a competitive development structure.
- To advance the business management structure, the Group will accelerate initiatives to streamline operations using AI, reform processes through digital transformation, leverage no-code development, and optimize user interfaces.
- Implement companywide training programs ranging from technology development to the strengthening of sales capabilities to develop innovators who will provide something new and something different.
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Growth Image in New Domains
- By achieving continuous growth backed by the stable profitability of our core businesses and pursuing further expansion through entry into new domains, we aim to enhance our corporate value.
New Mimaki, New Domains
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Explore a high viscosity domain to enable Digital Paint
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Leveraging technologies developed through industrial digital inkjet printers, we expand into the high-viscosity domain to provide digital paint solutions.
Specifically, we pursue “the digitalization of paints” and the development of environmentally friendly liquid formulations that offer safety, high weather resistance, and high concealing properties.
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Apply multi-material technologies to simultaneously mold combinations of different materials for high-performance applications in the high-viscosity domain.
Capture food, medical, 3D, and other untapped markets by extending the range of molding materials.
What Digital Paint Makes Possible
Challenges of the 3D Market
- Apply technologies cultivated in inkjet printer development and make composite materials combining materials with different characteristics
- Accelerate the platform establishment of a 3D printer technology and grow 3D technologies into Mimaki's next pillar in the future.
- Develop products that achieve high productivity and low costs, while leveraging our high quality supported by excellent color expression.
- Step up sales channel marketing, including consideration of alliance partners, to carry out product planning to benefit users.
Target markets
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Automobile
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Biotechnology
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Medical models
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Signs
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Figurines and other consumer goods
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Advance into the development of flexible organic electro-luminescence sheets using inkjet technologies and printing technologies
- Develop thin flexible sheets with the goal of achieving widespread application, including in ads and signboards
- Create advanced digital signage that provides more personalized on-demand information and optimal content in real time basis, leveraging technical innovation and to meet the needs of society
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* This image was created by a generative AI.
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Technological synergy with industrial inkjet printers
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Application of precision painting technologies:
Advanced technologies for precisely placing fine droplets in specific positions
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Capability to Handle a Wide Variety of Materials :
The flexible organic electro-luminescence sheets can accommodate inks with many different viscosities and characteristics. With our capability to handle diverse materials, we expect to apply the sheets for extended usages, for example, by combining materials such as light-emitting materials, sealing materials, or electrode materials.
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Launch of Mimaki's Second Brand, Mimaki La-Meccanica
- Launch a second brand of equipment incidental to inkjet printers, Mimaki La-Meccanica, providing sales and maintenance services using Mimaki's network.
- Comprehensively drive the launch processes from product planning to building the sales platform and a system to implement effective promotion strategies.
- Release new products in a systematic cycle to capture fast-changing markets and achieve sustainable growth.
Establishing sales networks in near-shoring areas
Market-specific policies
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SG market
- Specialize in Europe and U.S. and strengthen sales channels for laminators.
- Step up the marketing of new products for pre- and post-print processing.
- Enter the incidental equipment market.
- Made in Japan, Made by Mimaki
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IP market
- Offer a printer and a forming machine as a package.
- Aim to release in-house vacuum forming systems.
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TA market
- Focus on specific consumption regions and implement a near-shoring strategy to build a sales network.
- Establish sales channels for pre- and post- processing equipment for digital textile printing.
Investment Plan
- As in previous years, we proactively allocate 7% to 8% of net sales to development investments.
- Additionally, we allocate 1% to 2% of net sales to investments in new domains
- The total investment planned for Mimaki Innovation 30 (FY2025-FY2029) is 78 billion yen
