[Daiichi Jitsugyo] Concludes Sales Agency Agreement with Major Chinese Printing Machine Manufacturer Suzhou CAI Machine Group

Daiichi Jitsugyo Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Yuji Funato, hereinafter "our company"), a comprehensive machinery trading company, has concluded a sales agency agreement in Japan with Suzhou CAI Machine Group Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, Chairman: MA SHUN, hereinafter "CAI") for dry offset printing machines for plastic cups and trays.

Background and Aim of the Partnership: Maximizing Synergy with the Vacuum Forming Business In the domestic plastic container manufacturing industry, there is a growing demand for "high-speed, high-definition printing" to differentiate products, in addition to responding to the severe labor shortage. Our company has provided a wide range of packaging material manufacturing equipment, mainly vacuum forming machines. With this partnership, it becomes possible to propose an integrated line from molding to printing, inspection, and packaging. This will maximize synergy with our vacuum forming business and contribute to the optimization and productivity improvement of our customers' entire production lines.

About Suzhou CAI Machine Group Established in 2013, CAI possesses extremely advanced dry offset printing technology, inheriting the technology of Van Dam Machine, a global manufacturer in Europe. Their equipment has high cost competitiveness compared to products from European, American, and Japanese manufacturers, achieving high-definition and high-speed printing. Boasting a high market share in the curved surface printing machine market in China, it is a printing machine manufacturer attracting global attention.

Features of the Target Products ### 1. High value-added by the curved surface printing machine "S608": Achieving overwhelming productivity and speed, it contributes to improving the brand value of products through high-definition printing expression that exceeds conventional limits.

### 2. Proposal of a new method by the flat surface printing machine "LM": By using a new flat surface printing approach using proprietary technology, it builds an efficient production system in processes such as tray printing.