Topcon Corporation announced the appointment of Mr. Makoto Iwasaki, currently director and senior managing executive officer, as representative director and senior managing executive officer. Reason for the change is multiple representative directors assigned in order to strengthen the risk management system. The company also appointed Mr. Hitoshi Sadachika, currently executive senior manager, Product Engineering Dept., Production Div., Mr. Hiroyuki Nishizawa, currently executive senior manager, Quality Assurance Dept., Quality Assurance Div., and Mr. Kinpui Chan, currently general manager, Topcon Advanced Biomedical Imaging Laboratory, Topcon Medical Systems Inc., as executive officers. The company promoted Mr. Yasufumi Fukuma, currently director and executive officer, general manager, Research & Development Div., as director and managing executive officer.
Topcon Corp is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of smart infrastructure products, positioning products and eye care products. The Company operates in four business segments. The Smart Infrastructure segment provides total stations, Layout navigators, three-dimensional (3D) mobile measurement systems, three-dimensional (3D) laser scanners, data collectors, theodolites, rotating lasers and pipe lasers, among others. The Positioning Company segment provides global positioning systems (GPSs) for location survey, civil engineering machine control systems, asset management systems and machine control systems for precision agriculture, among others. The Eye Care segment provides fundus cameras, slit lamps, laser photocoagulators, non-contact type Tono meters, lens edgers, vision inspection equipment and others. The Others segment engages in precision measurement business and optical device business.