Hitachi Metals, Ltd. announced several personnel changes involving representative executive officers and executive officers decided at a board of directors meeting held on February 24, 2016. The board appointed Masahiro Otsuka, Executive officer; general manager of corporate management planning division as representative executive officer, Kenichi Nishiie, representative executive officer; general manager of human resources & general administration division; general manager of procurement & value engineering for customers division; general manager of corporate export regulation office as vice president and executive officer. The board also appointed Hiroyuki Okada, executive officer chief financial officer; general manager of finance division; general manager of information systems division as vice president and executive officer and Kazuya Murakami, vice president of Cable Materials Company as executive officer.

The changes are effective April 1, 2016.