Ube Industries, Ltd. has announced that the company's Board of Directors decided on the changes to its directors and executive officers and their assignments, which are scheduled to be formally approved by the general meeting of shareholders planned for June 27, 2014 and the meeting of the Board of Directors that will follow it. Takanobu Kubota changed from Managing Executive Officer, with responsibility for Ube Corporate Service Dept. and Ube Industries
Central Hospital to Director, Managing Executive Officer, with responsibility for Ube Corporate Service Dept. and Ube Industries Central Hospital and Keikou Terui to Director (Part-time). Hiroaki Tamura (to be appointed as an Advisor) and Tetsuro Higashi stepping down as directors as of June 27, 2014. Morihisa Yokota changed from General Manager of Process Technology Research Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development to Executive Officer and General Manager of Corporate Research & Development; Genji Koga changed from General Manager of Administration Center, Production & Technology Div. to Executive Officer, General Manager of Production Center, Production & Technology Div. and General Manager of Ube Chemical Factory; Makoto Koyama changed from General Manager of Technology Dept., Production & Technology Div., Cement & Construction Materials Company to Executive Officer and Deputy General Manager of Production & Technology Div., Cement & Construction Materials Company, with responsibility for Technical Development Center as of April 1, 2014. Junichi Misumi changed from Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Production & Technology Div. to Managing Executive Officer, with responsibility for Environment & Safety Dept., Pharma Quality Assurance Dept. and Intellectual Property Dept; Masataka Ichikawa changed from Executive Officer, with responsibility for Environment & Safety Dept. to Executive Officer and General
Manager of Production & Technology Div., Cement & Construction Materials Company, with responsibility for Material
Recycle Div; Makoto Aikawa changed from Executive Officer, General Manager of Production Center, Production &
Technology Div. and General Manager of Ube Chemical Factory to Executive Officer and General Manager of Production & Technology Div. as of April 1, 2014. Masayuki Kinouchi (to be appointed as an Advisor), Ryoji Sugise (to be appointed as a Full-time Advisor), Masanori Hirai (to be appointed as an Advisor) stepping down as Executive Officers as of March 31, 2014.
UBE Corporation (formerly Ube Industries, Ltd.) specializes in manufacturing and marketing of chemical products. The group is also developing a production of building materials and industrial machines activity. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of basic chemical products (53%): polymers, polyamide resins, caprolactams, industrial chemical products, synthetic rubbers, elastomers, polyethylene films, etc.;
- manufacturing of molding machines and industrial equipments (21.7%);
- sale of specialty chemicals (10.8%): polyimides, membrane separation products, ceramics, boron trichloride, Tyranno type fibers, materials for lithium-ion batteries, phenol-formaldehyde resins, active pharmaceutical ingredients, etc., primarily for the electric vehicle, electronic components, semiconductor, biofuels and pharmaceutical industries;
- other (14.5%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (63.4%), Asia (21.1%), Europe (8.7%) and other (6.8%).
UBE CORPORATION 
