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2022

April 27, 2022

Announcement of Changes in Directors

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. is pleased to announce that a meeting of its Board of Directors on April 27, 2022 resolved to make the following changes in directors. It is expected to be formalized at the 86th annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 29, 2022.

1. Changes in directors

  • Candidates for directors
Name New position Current position
Katsuya Amano Director
Executive General Manager of Engineering Division and Chief Business Officer for Facility Operation
Executive Officer
Executive General Manager of Engineering Division and Chief Business Officer for Facility Operation
Masahiro Miyazaki*1 Director (part time)
  • *1 Mr. Masahiro Miyazaki 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 directors.

<Supplementary Material>

  • Career Summary of Candidate for Directors
Name / Date of Birth Career Summary Number of
shares held
Katsuya Amano
June 6, 1969
(52 years old)
  • April 1992
    Joined Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
  • April 2014
    General Manager of Sales Dept. II, Global Business Group, Facilities Division
  • April 2019
    Senior General Manager of Electronics Industries Group, Japan Sales Business Division
  • April 2021
    Executive Officer and Senior General Manager of Electronics Industries Group, Japan Sales Business Division
  • April 2022
    Executive Officer and Executive General Manager of Engineering Division and Chief Business Officer for Facility Operation (incumbent)
900 shares
Masahiro Miyazaki
April 13, 1954
(68 years old)
  • April 1977
    Joined Nissei Sangyo Co., Ltd. (current Hitachi High-Tech Corporation)
  • June 2002
    Deputy General Manager of Electronics Division, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (current Hitachi High-Tech Corporation)
  • July 2004
    General Manager of Electronics Division, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
  • April 2007
    Executive Officer, General Manager, Regional Branch Office for West Japan Area and Kansai Branch Office of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
  • April 2010
    President & CEO of Hitachi High Technologies America Inc. (current Hitachi High-Tech America Inc.)
  • April 2014
    Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, General Manager, Corporate Strategy Division, Fine Technology Systems Business Division and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
  • April 2015
    Representative Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
  • June 2015
    Representative Executive Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer and Director of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
  • April 2021
    Chairman Emeritus of Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (incumbent)
0 shares
  • *The number of shares held is as of March 31, 2022. They include shares held under the Shareholding Scheme for the purchase of the Company shares.