Kurita Water Industries : Announcement of Changes in Representative Directors and Other Directors

April 27, 2021

For Immediate Release

Company Name : Kurita Water Industries Ltd.

Representative : Michiya Kadota, President

(Securities Code: 6370, First section of TSE）

Contact :Makoto Touryuudani General Manager of General Affairs Department

(Tel:[phone])

Announcement of Changes in Representative Directors and Other Directors

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. is pleased to announce that a meeting of its Board of Directors on April 27, 2021 resolved to make the following changes in representative directors and other directors. The official decision will be made at the 85th annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 29, 2021 and the subsequent Board of Directors meeting.

1. Reason of the changes
   Due to the determination of the new positions and responsibilities of directors after June 29, 2021
2. Change of representative directors

(1) Details of the changes

Name	New position	Current position
Hirohiko Ejiri	Executive Senior Managing Director and	Managing Director
	Representative Director	Executive General Manager of Engineering
	Executive General Manager of Engineering	Division and Chief Business Officer for
	Division and Chief Business Officer for	Facility Operation
	Facility Operation
Kiyoshi Itou	－	Executive Senior Managing Director and
		Representative Director
		Executive General Manager of Corporate
		Control and Administration Division

1. Scheduled date of assumption of office of new representative director June 29, 2021
2. Career summary of new representative director See the Supplementary Material.

3. Changes in directors (To take effect on June 29, 2021)

(1) Candidates for directors

Name	New position	Current position
Shuji Shirode	Director	Executive Officer
	Executive General Manager of Corporate	Deputy Executive General Manager of
	Control and Administration Division	Corporate Control and Administration
		Division
Kenichiro Kamai	Director (part time)	－
*1

*1 Mr. Kenichiro Kamai is a candidate for an external director and will be registered as an independent officer.

Note: See the Supplementary Material for career summaries of candidates for director.

(2) Retirement of directors

Name	New position	Current position
Kiyoshi Itou	－	Executive Senior Managing Director and
		Representative Director
		Executive General Manager of Corporate
		Control and Administration Division
Toshimi	－	Director
Kobayashi	(Land Solution Inc. President and	(Land Solution Inc. President and
	Representative Director)	Representative Director)
Tsuguto	－	Director (part time)
Moriwaki
*2

*2. Mr. Tsuguto Moriwaki is an external director and has been registered as an independent officer.

Career Summary of New Representative Director
Name / Date of Birth		Career Summary	Number of
				shares held
		April 1985	Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
		April 2005	President of KURITA EUROPE GmbH
		April 2011	General Manager of Sales Dept. for Heavy Industries,
			GroupⅡ, Chemicals Division
		June 2013	General Manager of Business Administration Dept,
			Chemicals Division
		April 2014	Executive Officer, and General Manager of Business
			Administration Dept, Chemicals Division
		June 2014	Executive Officer, and Senior General Manager of
Hirohiko Ejiri		Sales GroupⅠ, Chemicals Division
April 2016	Executive Officer, and Executive General Manager of	13,900
October 6, 1962
	Corporate Planning Division
		June 2016	Director, and Executive General Manager of
			Corporate Planning Division
		April 2018	Director, Executive General Manager of Engineering
			Division
		April 2019	Managing Director, and Executive General Manager
			of Engineering Division
		April 2020	Managing Director, and Executive General Manager
			of Engineering Division and Chief Business Officer
			for Facility Operation (incumbent)
Career Summary of Candidate for Directors
Name / Date of Birth			Career Summary	Number of
				shares held
		January 2016 Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd. Deputy
			Executive General Manager of Administrative
			Division
Shuji Shirode		April 2018	Executive Officer, and Deputy Executive	5,300
October 5, 1959			General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
		April 2019	Executive Officer, and Deputy Executive
			General Manager of Corporate Control and
			Administration Division (Incumbent)
		April 1978	Joined NIPPONDENSO CO., LTD. (current
			DENSO CORPORATION)
		March 1991	Seconded to DENSO International America, Inc.
Kenichiro Kamai		April 1997	Returned to DENSO CORPORATION	0
January 14, 1956		June 2006	Managing Officer of DENSO CORPORATION
		June 2009	Executive Senior Managing Director of SOKEN,
			INC.

June 2012	Managing Executive Officer of DENSO
	CORPORATION in change of Development
	Division
June 2014	Executive Senior Managing Director of ADVICS
	CO., LTD.
June 2015	Director and Executive Vice President of
	ADVICS CO., LTD.
June 2019	Executive Advisor to ADVICS CO., LTD.
March 2021	Retired as Executive Advisor to ADVICS CO.,
	LTD.

*The number of shares held by each is current as of Mach 31, 2021. They include shares held under the Shareholding Scheme for the purchase of the Company shares.