Effective document solutions for powerful support of your business environment

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1 Effective document solutions for powerful support of your business environment Konica Minolta provides the full spectrum of solutions and services for the office and production-printing*1 markets through the global deployment of office equipment such as MFPs*2 and laser printers. In North America and Europe, we enjoy a very prominent market position in the field of medium- and high-speed MFPs. This is Konica Minolta s core business. As the progress of color and digital technologies continues to enliven the office equipment market, we are steadily building our lineup of genre top products in each field where we enjoy the advantage. At the same time, we are bolstering our solutions and services operations through partnerships with IT enterprises and software vendors. *1 Production printing refers to in-house printing at major companies as well as light printing work at print shops and the like. *2 Multi-function peripherals (MFPs) are integrated devices that combine the functions of photocopiers, printers, scanners, fax machines, etc. Konica Minolta s share of the market for MFPs in Western Europe (A3 tandem color, 2006) Other 13.8% Company C 10.9% Company B 13.6% Company A 29.6% Source: Konica Minolta data, calendar-year basis Konica Minolta 32.1% MFPs Laser printers Network support Security support Color MFP bizhub C550 Color laser printer magicolor 5570 KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES High-speed printing High-speed color MFP bizhub PRO C6500 On-demand MFPs Binding and processing features Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. 13

2 Company Outline Head office Paid-in capital Consolidated sales Number of employees (consolidated) Business activities Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 500 million yen billion yen (FY2006) 21,000 (as of March 2007) Manufacturing and sale of office equipment including copiers, digital MFPs and printers, and related supplies and services President Akio Kitani Document Solution 1 Creating great-looking business documents, fast Office market Business users increasingly expect MFPs and printers to deliver excellent image quality at high speeds, driven by the growing demand for professional-looking presentation documents and on-demand print jobs. To serve these needs, Konica Minolta developed Simitri HD toner, an improved version of the polymerized toner also developed exclusively by Konica Minolta. Control of the toner structure at the granulation phase results in uniformly small toner granules with excellent fixing at low temperatures, making possible high-speed output with outstanding color reproduction. Composition of Polymerized toner Wax Color material Conventional toner 6.5µm New polymerized toner Document Solution 2 Sharing and application of data across networks Today s offices deal with a mixture of paper and digital documents. In many cases, office workers need to send paper documents in digital form, or otherwise share or centrally manage both document types. To address these needs, Konica Minolta MFPs provide a wide range of solutions, making business communication smooth and efficient. For example, these devices can scan documents in bulk and send them to addresses or servers, and the box feature sorts a variety of documents and stores them appropriately. PC Copied data Scanned data Faxed data Printed data MFP Data storage Internet/ PSTN Fax LAN/ Intranet Overseas PC Mobile PC Client PC MFP Document Solution 3 Production printing (light-printing) market Solid support for office information security When handling vital corporate data and personal information, ironclad security to prevent leakage or loss of information is vital. Konica Minolta MFPs provide thoroughgoing security in every phase of operation, from output and transmission to accessing stored information. These systems even offer user-specific authentication systems to suit each office environment. Examples include contactless IC cards, biometric authentication using vascular patterns in fingers and external-server authentication systems that assign privileges to individual users. Biometric authentication 14

3 Driving the evolution of digital electronics with today s most advanced technology The extensive list of components Konica Minolta offers includes high-value-added plastic and glass molded lenses, designed with original optical and micro-fabrication technologies, and display components developed using the sophisticated material and film-casting technologies of the Group s photosensitive materials operations. These components played a crucial role in the growth of digital consumer electronics and information and communication fields. Demand is expected to expand briskly for this business, strategically positioned within the Group. By investing in new production sites and R&D facilities and achieving further breakthroughs in the technology, we are consolidating our reputation as the world s best optical-device manufacturer. Product 1 TAC film for LCD polarizers This high-performance TAC (triacetyl-cellulose) film is a product born of Konica Minolta s extensive experience in material and film-casting technology. We are also focusing on VA-TAC film for wide viewing angles, demand for which is expected to rise. Structure of liquid crystal panel Display materials TAC film for LCD polarizers VA-TAC film for wide viewing angle High-precision photo plates Polarizing plate Glass plate Color filter electrode LCD TFT/electrode Glass plate Polarizing plate Back light TAC film Polyvinyl-alcohol polarizing element Retardation film/tac film KONICA MINOLTA OPTO Image input/ output components Microcamera units Lens units Optical units for projectors Product 2 Microcamera units These small lens units utilize leading-edge optical technology to deliver outstanding performance and functionality. Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. 15

4 Company Outline Head office Paid-in capital Consolidated sales Number of employees (consolidated) Business activities 2970 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo 500 million yen 139 billion yen (FY2006) 3,500 (as of March 2007) Manufacturing and sale of optical products (such as optical pickup lenses), related products and electronic materials (such as TAC films) President Takashi Matsumaru Product 3 Glass substrates for hard-disk drives Konica Minolta develops these materials in-house and handles each step in the production: melting, pressing and grinding. Using ultra-high-precision finishing technology, we attain the industry s highest levels of quality in this field. Product 4 Memory devices Pickup lenses Glass substrates for hard-disk drives Pickup prisms UDO and MO drives Lenses for optical disks Konica Minolta boasts the industry s top share in pickup lenses for optical disks. Furthermore, Konica Minolta is making a strong showing in lenses for next-generation DVDs using blue-violet lasers. Microactuator SIDM: new applications expected SIDM (Smooth Impact Drive Mechanism) is an original actuator developed by Konica Minolta that uses a piezoelectric element as its driving source. Providing powerful thrust with compact size and low voltage, SIDM has potential in a wide range of applications. From camera modules in mobile telephones to camera-shake correction units for digital cameras, aberration correction in next-generation DVDs and other applications of industries, SIDM is finding a valued place in electronics. Compact SIDM 16

5 Delivering leading-edge digital imaging technology solutions, creating new value in healthcare and graphic imaging fields The digital revolution has reached the fields of healthcare and graphic imaging. Konica Minolta is serving these fields with products that use the latest in digital imaging technology, and with services and solutions of the highest quality. In the healthcare field, Konica Minolta provides the hospital and clinic market with high-performance X-ray digital diagnostic imaging systems that feature Computed Radiography (CR*1). These products have earned high regard in the healthcare field. In the graphic imaging field, our digital color-proofing systems have become the virtual industry standard. We have been making aggressive efforts in the Computer to Plate (CTP*2) business a market where demand is growing rapidly. *1 Computed Radiography (CR): X-ray image processing by computer *2 Computer to Plate (CTP): A method of outputting digital data directly to a digital plate, instead of indirectly via film output Topic 1 Digital diagnostic imaging systems for the clinical market support the development of regional medical services In recent years, the need for better regional medical services has bolstered demand for digital technologies, both at major hospitals and at smaller medical facilities. To provide an optimum solution to these needs, we developed the REGIUS MODEL 110, a digital X-ray image reader featuring ease of use and consistently high-quality imaging with a small space footprint for the clinic market, launching in Clinics Healthcare field PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) Digital diagnostic imaging systems Mammography unit Digital image reader Topic 2 With the establishment of a general sales company for Europe, we complete our global sales platform Hospitals Pharmaceuticals for diagnosis Digital image reader In March 2006, we established Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Imaging Europe B.V., a comprehensive sales company handling sales to the healthcare and graphic imaging business in Europe. The new sales company, established in the Netherlands, completes a worldwide sales network that includes bases in the United States, China and Russia. Digital image output system Mammography unit: REGIUS PureView Type-M Digital image reader: REGIUS MODEL 110 Digital image reader: REGIUS MODEL 190 Digital image output system: DRYPRO MODEL 832 Laser Imager Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. 17

6 Company Outline Head office Paid-in capital Consolidated sales Number of employees (consolidated) Business activities 1 Sakura-machi, Hino, Tokyo 500 million yen billion yen (FY2006) 3,000 (as of March 2007) Manufacture and sale of medical equipment and materials and of graphic imaging equipment and materials; provision of related services President Kiyofumi Tanida Topic 3 Graphic imaging field Digital Konsensus Pro Digital color-proofing systems Start of CTP business in the United States We launched our CTP business in the United States through American Litho Inc. in April American Litho Inc., a printing plate manufacturer, was incorporated into the Konica Minolta Group in 2005 with an eye to strengthening the Group s graphic imaging business in the rapidly expanding CTP market in the United States. We are already looking to produce the next generation of CTP. KONICA MINOLTA MEDICAL & GRAPHIC Printing companies CTP systems 18

7 Leveraging advanced technologies in optics and image processing, Konica Minolta delivers precision and quality control indispensable to modern industry Based on light-measuring technology, Konica Minolta provides a wide range of industries with the measuring instruments they require, thereby bolstering quality control and precision. In product color management and display quality control, these instruments are used as standard reference devices by a great number of enterprises. 65% of sales of industrial measuring instruments are made in areas outside of Japan. Therefore, a full after-sales service network is being developed globally. In the medical field, Konica Minolta provides testing equipment that makes measurements using light, thus enabling painless techniques. These devices are highly regarded by medical professionals. Scene 1 At work in color management for a wide range of products Spectrophotometers and colorimeters provide numerical values for subtle differences in color undetectable by the human eye. These instruments are used in quality control at production sites and in research and development for virtually every product that requires color management, including automobiles, consumer electronics, foodstuffs, construction materials, textiles, cosmetics and much more. Color-measurement (object-color) field Spectrophotometers Colorimeters Spectrophotometer CM-2600d Scene 3 Industrial product development and academic research applications 3D digitizers conduct contactless scanning of three-dimensional objects with high precision and speed, converting the images to data. Applications for these devices include shape-inspection and reverse-engineering in the development of automobile parts and other cast and forged products, as well as plastic molded products. They are also used for computer graphic rendering in medical, academic and 3D-archive applications. 3D measurement field 3D digitizers Non-contact 3D digitizer VIVID 9i/VI-9i Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc. 19

8 Company Outline Head office Paid-in capital Consolidated sales Number of employees (consolidated) Business activities 3-91 Daisen-nishimachi, Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka 495 million yen 10 billion yen (10.9 billion yen * ) (FY2006) 350 (as of March 2007) Manufacturing and sale of measuring instruments for industrial and medical purposes President Hiroshi Furukawa * A part of this company s sales in Asia ex-japan in FY 2006 are appropriated in the accounts for Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. or Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc. The figure of 10.9 billion yen is for consolidated net sales, including sales for this region, of Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc. Color-measurement (light-source) field Chroma meters Display color analyzers Spectroradiometers Scene 2 Quality control and R&D in displays Color analyzers deliver high-precision measurement of color, brightness and color balance in a full spectrum of display and LED products, including large-screen TVs, PC monitors, mobile-telephone screens and vehicle instrument panels. They are also used extensively in research and development into luminescent materials used in organic LED, plasma and other light emitting products. KONICA MINOLTA SENSING Display color analyzer CA-210 Medical field Pulse oximeters Jaundice meters Scene 4 Medical examinations and home care Without blood sampling, pulse oximeters measure blood oxygen saturation and jaundice meters detect jaundice in newborn babies. These measures not only allow examinations to be more easily performed, but are less invasive for the patient. Making examination as easy as it does, the pulse oximeter has a multitude of applications not only in hospital care, but also in home oxygen therapy including home care and SAS (Sleep Apnea Syndrome) screening. Oxygen saturation monitor 20