Hitachi Maxell Ltd. announced that Yoshihiro Senzai has changed from President and Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer to Chairman and Representative Director. Yoshiharu Katsuta changed from Senior Vice President and Executive Officer to President and Representative Director. Meiro Iwasaki changed from Director, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer to Senior Executive Managing Director.
Kenichi Yoshitake changed from Director, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer to Senior Executive Managing Director. Masao Okafuji changed from Director, Vice President and Executive Officer to Executive Managing Director. Kazuhiro Kaizaki changed from Vice President and Executive Officer to Executive Managing Director.
Akira Shimizu as a Outside Director. Katunori Ikegami changed from Full Time Auditor to Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee member). Kouji Kihira changed from Outside Auditor to Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee member).
Wataru Kitao changed from Outside Auditor to Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee member).
Maxell Ltd, formerly Maxell Holdings Ltd, is mainly engaged in the manufacturing and sales of energy, industrial materials and electric appliances and consumer products. The Company mainly operates through three business segments. The Energy segment manufactures and sells secondary batteries, such as coin type lithium secondary batteries, industrial lithium ion batteries and electrodes, and consumer lithium ion batteries, primary batteries such as lithium primary batteries and button batteries, and charger and battery packs. The Industrial Materials segment manufactures and sells optical components, functional materials, electroforming and precision parts, semiconductor-related embedded systems, mold and synthetic resin molded parts, adhesive tapes, radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems and Integrated Circuit (IC) cards, industrial rubber products and others. The Electric Appliance and Consumer segment manufactures and sells projectors, small electric equipments and others.
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