Investor Presentaiton
Timeline of fire incident at US subsidiary
Impact to business
Incident investigation begins
FY2018
Litigation related
May: Fire occurred at U.S. EVAL plant
2Q: No impact to business due to inventory
Modification to safety facilities
3Q: Sales adjustment for food application in Americas
Sep/Late: Main production lines resumed
4Q: Supply gradually recovered
Nov/End: Affected production line resumed
Production resumed to normal condition FY2019
Cost of facility repair and safety measures:
Facility repair costs: minimal (several million JPY)
Safety measures costs: approximately 300 million JPY
Review of safety design and horizontal deployment:
approximately 70 million JPY
Civil lawsuit raised
Plaintiff: Over 160 outside contractors
Claim Damages for physical
and psychological injury
Oct: Settled with partial plaintiffs
and reported extraordinary loss
Settlement: approximately 10 billion JPY (92
million USD); Reported 14 billion JPY
extraordinary loss including above settlement
Nov: Reported additional extraordinary loss
Reported 34 billion JPY loss (over 140
plaintiffs).
FY2020 Jan: Settled with partial plaintiffs
Settlement: approximately
28.9 billion JPY (265 million USD).
Settlement negotiations ongoing
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