We strongly promote digitalization strategies that use data and digital technologies, driving implementation along the three pillars of business added-value, operational competitiveness and management speed as we aim to become a leading company in the DX sphere.

The Group is pursuing a DX strategy as a way to lay the foundations to prevail on the global stage. Toward achieving Our Commitment from 2030 to 2050, the DX Promotion Department is playing a central role in driving transformation with three missions, Strengthening today: using digital technology to reinforce existing business, Creating tomorrow: co-creation of new business and services, and Cultivating talent: reinforcing human resources and systems to effect reform continuously. To materialize the three pillars of DX promotion, namely business added-value, operational competitiveness and management speed, we have selected priority themes to be addressed based on the key DX perspectives of enhancement of customer touch points, process coordination and increasing management decision making speed, as well as the system and data infrastructure improvements and human resource and culture improvements that underpin them. Our business divisions and IT/digital departments are implementing these activities on a joint basis. By carrying out these activities on a speedy basis, the Group will aim to achieve real-time management that is responsive to societal change, environmental change and our own transformation. Since the fiscal year ended March 2021 we have named these DX initiatives of the Mitsubishi Materials Group "MMDX", and from the fiscal year ended March 2023, two years after the start of MMDX, we shifted into a new phase as "MMDX 2.0."

Under MMDX, we have set the period from the fiscal year ended March 2024 to the fiscal year ending March 2026 as the full-scale operation phase, and will promote utilization of the data infrastructure while accelerating MMDX Group-wide. We have positioned the fiscal year ending March 2027 to the fiscal year ending March 2031 as the expanded effectiveness expansion and continuous development phase, during which we will advance the Group rollout with a focus on ERP and aim to firmly establish, maintain and improve MMDX.

In May 2025, we have been selected for the third year in a row, as a "Noteworthy Digital Transformation (DX) Companies 2025" following last year in a program run by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA).

The selection as one of the "Noteworthy DX Companies 2025" is in recognition of MMC's DX achievements, and efforts to foster a corporate culture. As an important initiative in our business strategy, we launched a new platform called "MEX" (Mitsubishi Materials E-Scrap EXchange) in December 2021 that enables online transactions, realizing a business model that will attract more business partners through DX. We also launched Tool Assistant, an online tool selection service incorporating the expertise of our engineers, in October 2024. By digitalizing tool selection through this service, users can select optimum tools as an experienced engineer would, regardless of time or place, contributing to an increase in productivity in the cutting tool industry and the resolution of challenges in the transfer of technical expertise. 

We established "For people, society and the earth, circulating resources for a sustainable future" as "Our Commitment." We will continue to implement management reforms through "MMDX 2.0" and work on a variety of initiatives to fulfill Our Commitment.

We operate a resource recycling business that collects E-Scrap (mainly raw materials for recycling such as discarded circuit boards) from all over the world and recycles them into valuable metals. To create new added value in this business, we developed MEX, an E-Scrap business platform enabling transactions with recyclers, trading companies and other suppliers to be carried out with speed and ease. The service was launched in December 2021. Through MEX, we have improved the transparency of information related to E-Scrap transactions and made transactions more convenient, leading to greater supplier satisfaction and enhancing our attractiveness as an E-Scrap destination.

Since the service launched, MEX has added or developed the following features in an effort to provide better service. Looking ahead, we will aim to develop the infrastructure that is essential to our E-Scrap business by providing functions (responding to legal and regulatory frameworks, streamlining customer operations, etc.) for which there are unmet needs among stakeholders related to the E-Scrap business overall.

The shortage of experienced workers in the manufacturing sector continues to worsen as the working population shrinks. This problem also exists in the cutting tool industry that we are involved in, where the lack of personnel with the required expertise and experience to select tools has become an issue. In selecting tools, there are many parameters to consider, including machining operation and materials, and complex assessments are necessary. However, at present, manufacturers and retailers spend a large amount of time responding to tool-related inquiries. In the future, the number of experienced workers capable of making appropriate selections is expected to decrease, making timely tool selection increasingly difficult. The industry as a whole needs solutions to these challenges.

So we launched Tool Assistant, an online tool selection service incorporating the expertise of experienced engineers, on October 31, 2024. This service allows even beginners to quickly select the optimal tools, as an experienced engineer would by simply entering the required information. This not only reduces the burden on customers in tool selection and improves productivity, but also helps to address the challenge of transferring technical expertise.

We are promoting DX in procurement to streamline operations and strengthen governance by standardizing and digitizing procurement processes.
We have introduced a sourcing and supplier management system in the sourcing domain, and launched operations at 19 sites, including some of our Group companies. This has enabled us to standardize and digitize processes that had previously been person-dependent and were conducted via email and paper documents, thereby strengthening governance through visualization of work progress.
Currently, while promoting deployment of this system across our Group companies in Japan in the sourcing domain, we also plan to standardize and digitize processes in the purchasing domain to further improve efficiency and strengthen governance, thereby enhancing DX across all procurement operations.

Mitsubishi Materials is working on ERP introduction to renew and standardize business processes, including domestic and overseas Group companies. Renewed and standardized accounting practices, which we had been pursuing on an advanced basis, entered operation at Mitsubishi Materials Corporation on a non-consolidated basis from the fiscal year ending March 2025. To ensure mission-critical business processes that enable improvements and greater sophistication on an integrated basis between business operations and IT, we pursued total optimization, creating and providing the financial statements data needed to make management decisions swiftly and without defects, and building mechanisms able to swiftly adapt to changes in the external environment (M&A, accounting systems, taxation systems, etc.). 
Currently, we have rolled out these processes to 12 Group companies in Japan and 6 overseas, and in the fiscal year ending March 2026, we have already begun introducing them at 16 companies in Japan and 6 overseas.

As the evolution of digital technologies accelerates, human resources with expertise in the digital domain who can drive innovation are essential for maintaining and enhancing corporate competitiveness. This is why we are working to secure human resources to promote DX as a matter of the utmost importance.
We currently offer Common Digital Literacy Education to enable our employees to adapt smoothly to the digital environment, covering everything from the basics of digital technology to its applications. This education is provided across the Group, both in Japan and overseas. We also offer Advanced Digital Education to train personnel with more specialized skills.

Moving forward, we will provide training programs tailored to the needs of each department and establish systems so that each site can independently promote DX, ensuring sustainable growth and strengthening our competitiveness.