Showa Denko announced that Hideo Ichikawa will resign as President and CEO to become Representative Director and Chairman of the Board, of the company, and that, Kohei Morikawa, Director, Managing Corporate Officer, and Chief Technology Officer, will succeed Ichikawa, effective January 4, 2017. Morikawa is currently in charge of Electronic Chemicals and Functional Chemicals divisions, Business Development Center, Isesaki and Tatsuno plants, and Corporate R&D Department. Kyohei Takahashi will resign as Chairman of the Board on January 4, 2017.
He will also resign as Director at the ordinary general meeting of shareholders in late March 2017, and assume the post of Advisor.
Resonac Holdings Corp is a Japan-based comprehensive chemical company. The Company has four business segments. The Semiconductor and Electronic Materials segment provides semiconductor front-end process materials, including high-purity gases and functional chemicals, semiconductor back-end process materials, including epoxy encapsulants and die bonding materials, and device solutions, including hard disks and others. The Mobility segment provides automotive parts, including plastic molded products and friction materials, and lithium-ion battery materials, including aluminum laminate films, conductive additives for positive and negative electrodes. The Innovation Materials segment provides functional chemicals, functional resins, coating materials, ceramics, and aluminum functional components. The Chemical segment provides petrochemicals, chemicals, basic chemicals, graphite electrodes and others, including olefins, organic chemical, industrial gases, liquefied ammonia and others.
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