Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. Announces Management Changes, February 1, 2020
January 28, 2020 at 01:00 am EST
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Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. announced the changes in the management scheduled on February 1, 2020. Masafumi Tsuji appointed as Member of the Board Executive Officer Deputy Chairman, Corporate Planning, Strategic Investment, and Sales Research and Planning Department, General Manager, Corporate Planning and Sales Research & Planning Department from Member of the Board Executive Officer Deputy Chairman, Corporate Planning, Strategic Investment, and Sales Research and Planning Department General Manager, Corporate Planning Department. Yoshiharu Tachibana appointed as member of Business Director General Manager, Friction Materials Division from Business Director General Manager, Sales Research & Planning Department.
Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. is one of the Japanese leaders in manufacturing and marketing of coal and graphite products. The group is also producing industrial furnaces. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- coal and graphite products (69.6%): coal, graphite electrodes, special graphite and friction materials primarily for industrial, electronic, energy, automotive and mechanic applications;
- cathodes for smelting aluminum and furnace linings (18.1%);
- industrial furnaces and heating products (6.9%): for thermal processing of ceramic products, electronic components, metals, glasses, etc.;
- other (5.4%).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (24.6%), Asia (26.7%), the United States (26.5%), Europe (11.6%) and other (10.6%).
TOKAI CARBON CO., LTD. 
