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- Foundation Businesses(Fibers and Textiles, Plastics and Chemicals)
- Establish a stable profit base through: 1.Global business development 2.Promoting “New Value Creator”3.Downstream and processing business development
- Build a stable profit base and expand profits by promoting advances in Foundation Businesses through expanding advanced materials.
- Strategically Expanding Businesses(IT-related Products, Carbon Fiber Composite Materials)
- Achieve strategic and aggressive business growth and establish highly profitable businesses in the mid and long terms by focusing investment of managerial resources and strengthening agility in growth markets including IT, automobiles and aircrafts.
- Strategically Developing Businesses(Life Science, Environment (water treatment))
- As next pillars of profit growth for beyond 2010 subsequent to IT-related Products and Carbon Fiber Composite Materials, strategically developing and expanding these businesses by increasing management resources intensively with consideration of M&A and strategic alliances with external parties.

| % of net sales |
Basic materials |
Advanced materials |
| 2005 |
70% |
30% |
| Near 2010 |
50% |
50% |
| Near 2015 |
40% |
60% |