Ube Industries, Ltd. announced that the board of directors resolved on the following changes to its internal organization, executive officers and their assignments. Futoshi Takase appointed as Executive Officer, General Manager, Ube Chemical Factory with responsibility for Ube-Fujimagari Factory, Production Div., Chemicals Company from General Manager, Chiba Petrochemical Factory, Production Div., Chemicals Company. Hidetsune Miura appointed as Senior Executive Officer, with responsibility for Environment & Safety Dept. and Quality Management Dept. from Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Ube Chemical Factory with responsibility for Ube-Fujimagari Factory, Production Div., Chemicals Company. Hisaaki Yokoo appointed as Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Planning & Management Dept. and Synthetic Rubber Div., Chemicals Company from Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Planning & Management Dept., with responsibility for Synthetic Rubber Div., Chemicals Company. Masayoshi Ota appointed as Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Research & Development Div., with responsibility for Technology
Development Dept. and development section, Chemicals Company, and Intellectual Property Dept. from Senior Executive Officer, General Manager, Research & Development Div., with responsibility for Technology Development Dept. and development section, Chemicals Company. Hiroaki Kojima appointed as Executive Officer, with responsibility for Governance Control Dept., QA Dept. and EHS Dept., Construction Materials Company from Executive Officer, with responsibility for Group Company Dept., QA Dept. and EHS Dept., Construction Materials Company. Stepping down of Makoto Aikawa, Senior Executive Officer, with responsibility for Environment & Safety Dept., Quality Management Dept. and Intellectual Property Dept. (to be appointed as a President and Representative Director of Ube Film, Ltd. as of April 1).
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%).
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