Maxell Holdings, Ltd. announced that at the AGM to be held on June 2020, director Yoshihiro Senzai planned to retire and to be assigned as Senior Corporate Advisor of the Company in late June. Directors Katsunori Ikegami, Wataru Kitao planned to be retired. Effective April 1, 2020, Kenichi Sano appointed as executive officer, manufacturing technology supervisory, Term of office of executive officers is from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021. Effective April 1, 2020, Executive Officer Osamu Onodera planned to be retired. Keiji Nakamura appointed as President and Director from previous position Representative Director; Yoshiharu Katsuta appointed as Director from previous position President and Representative Director; Brian K. Heywood appointed as Outside Director; Sachiko Murase appointed as Outside Director. Candidates for Directors who serve as Audit and Supervisory Committee Members (Scheduled date of change: Late June 2020): Hiroyuki Suzuki appointed as Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member from previous position Auditor, Maxell, Ltd. Tatsuhiko Izumi appointed as Outside Director Audit and Supervisory Committee Member from previous position Outside Director.
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.