2017_4q_fpco_e
21/34 － Capital Investment > Products 49.4 billion yen invested in manufacturing over a six-year period
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For one thing, we have succeeded in developing a new material for products that we alone offer. That material is Multi FP. It is best suited to the microwavable food market. It is a type of foam, and it insulates heat and withstands microwave heating. In addition, no competitor has a deep-drawn material that can be stretched to this extent. For this reason, Multi FP practically dominates the microwavable food market and the soup market. We also created a solid product called Multi Solid. It is made of the remnants generated from Multi FP production. We also have a polyethylene terephthalate material called APET. PET is well known as a material for plastic bottles. It has outstanding properties as a resin. For example, it has excellent oil and acid resistance. Polystyrene is not resistant to oil. These containers look similar, but this one is made of OPS. It is used in most supermarkets for food packaging. If you put yakitori grilled chicken on it and microwave it, holes will appear in it. It is made of PET. This one is made of OPET. It is prepared by stretching PET. Microwaving does deform it, but it does not make any holes in it. As supermarkets assign more and more selling space to the microwavable items mentioned earlier, consumers tend to microwave anything that appears to be microwavable. In the past, supermarkets dealt in goods that were expected to be used in kitchens. They expected their shoppers to place food in their own containers and put plastic wrap over it before microwaving it. Convenience stores already use microwavable containers for all items that they expect consumers to microwave. As I said earlier, at that time, supermarkets did not deal in any items that would be microwaved. As supermarkets create more of these types of selling spaces, consumers tend to put yakitori in this type of container and microwave it because they do not know what it is. As a result, holes appear and the microwave oven becomes soiled. Consumers then make complaints. As a result, container materials are now changing rapidly. We are the sole supplier of OPET. In addition, we have placed Eco APET on the market. It is made from bales of collected PET bottles.
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