Since the founding of our company, we have been consistently trying to facilitate the use of underground resources as a common property of the whole world. At present, global environmental problems are attracting our attention. We think the market needs for bentonite, which has a low environmental load, will increase more and more in the future.We are also striving to develop high-value added products that provide highly profitable business systems that are robust against external environmental changes. This also improves our corporate worth.For the future, we aim to become a corporation of environment al conservation. In