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Jun Nakamoto (President of Denka Performance Elastomer LLC, Assistant to the Chief Technology Officer) and Osamu Kunitomo (Manager of Shibukawa Plant, Head of Research for New Business Development) will be newly appointed as Executive Officers. Yukio Sasagawa, Senior Executive Officer, and Munetaka Mitsuida, Executive Officer, will retire at the end of March 2026. Other executive officers' responsibilities and positions will generally remain unchanged.\n\n### Overview of Organizational Restructuring\nThe technical corporate division is reorganized with the establishment of a new 'Production Technology Department,' which will include the Production Technology Department, Engineering Department, Environmental Safety Department, and Quality Assurance Department. The Production Technology and New Business Development divisions will be overseen by the CTO, with a newly established 'Technology Planning Department' directly under the CTO responsible for planning technology strategy operations. This strengthens the organizational framework to promote the technology strategy aimed at achieving the 'Mission 2030' management plan.","jir_financial_highlights":"Number of Promotions: 1 (Yoshio Kawamura) (Promoted to Senior Executive Officer)\nNew Executive Officers: 2 (Jun Nakamoto, Osamu Kunitomo) (New appointments)\nRetiring Executive Officers: 2 (Yukio Sasagawa, Munetaka Mitsuida) (Retiring end of March 2026)","jir_category":"","jir_hashtags":"#DENKACompanyLimited, #executive_change, #JapaneseStocks","jir_key_figures":"Number of Promotions: 1 (Yoshio Kawamura promoted to Senior Executive Officer)\nNumber of New Executive Officers: 2 (Jun Nakamoto, Osamu Kunitomo)\nNumber of Retiring Executive Officers: 2 (Yukio Sasagawa, Munetaka Mitsuida)","jir_meta_title":"DENKA Company Limited Announces Executive Officer Changes and Technical Division Restructuring in April 2026","jir_meta_description":"DENKA Company Limited will implement promotions, new appointments, retirements of executive officers and organizational restructuring of its technical corporate division effective April 1, 2026, strengthening the technology strategy framework towards achieving Mission 2030.","jir_og_title":"DENKA Company Limited Notice on Executive Officer Changes and Organizational Restructuring","jir_og_description":"Executive officer changes and technical division reorganization effective April 1, 2026. 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