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High-Quality Processing, Logistics and Storage Services

The strongest features of Toyota Tsusho's metals business are the high-precision, high-quality operational functions offered together with manufacturing and processing companies worldwide. For example, the Steel Center, which plays a pivotal role in our steel sheets business, carries out efficient processing, storage and logistics optimally suited to each production situation by sharing
information between suppliers and users. In the nonferrous metals business, Toyota Tsusho is developing a molten aluminum business in North America, Europe and Asia. The objective is to reduce overall energy costs and the environmental burden by switching to the supply of molten aluminum instead of the conventional supply of aluminum materials in the form of ingots.

Fiscal 2010 Business Initiatives

Investment in India's Only Manufacturer of Stainless Steel Piping for Automobiles and Motorcycles

Toyota Tsusho has invested in Maruichi Kuma Steel Tube Pvt. Ltd., India's only manufacturer of stainless steel piping for automobiles and motorcycles. This investment comes through Toyota Tsusho's acquisition of 30% of the outstanding shares of Maruichi Kuma Steel Tube Pvt. Ltd. from the Company's largest shareholder, Maruichi Steel Tube Ltd. The target is for Toyota Tsusho and
Maruichi Steel Tube to jointly expand the stainless steel piping business for automobiles and motorcycles in the Indian market. With this investment, Toyota Tsusho will enter the stainless steel piping business for exhaust systems in India, a rapidly growing emerging country, providing the opportunity for the company to increase its presence in the local market.

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