Your Excellencies! Please ask why the net profits of your company, in the context of the increase in sales over the quarter of 2023, have been so severe as the downturn, for what reasons? Has your company’s special carbon blacks achieved some success in applications in the fields of dry-cell raw materials, IDF work, electric vehicles? Can future research and development continue? Are there reasonable arrangements for future corporate development? Answer by the Secretary of the Board (joint sc...