March 03, 2016

To Whom It May Concern:
Company Name
Representative::

Stock CodeInquiries::Tel:

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Shunsuke Betsukawa
President and CEO
6302 (First Section of the TSE/OSE)
Tsuneyoshi Sato
General Manager, Corporate
Communications Department+81-3-6737-2333

Notice Regarding Changes to the Responsibilities of Representative Directors and Other Directors of the Company
At a Board of Directors meeting held on February 26, 2016, a preliminary decision was made with respect to the transfer ofrepresentative directors and other directors to new posts within the Company. Details of the decision are provided below:DETAILS
1.

Transfer of Representative Directors(1) Reason(s) for the Transfer
Changes to the directorship structure(2) Details of the Transfer(Effective April 1, 2016)
New Post(s)/Title(s)Director

2.

Transfer of Directors(Effective April 1, 2016）
New Post(s)/Title(s)General Manager – Export
Administration Department

Previous Post(s)/Title(s)Representative Director
Executive Vice President
General Manager – Export Administration Department
Regional General Manager – Kansai Office

Previous Post(s)/Title(s)Executive Vice President

Senior Vice President

Representative Director andChairman – Sumitomo (S.H.I.)
Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Representative Director andPresident – Sumitomo (S.H.I.)
Construction Machinery Co.,Ltd.

CEO – Sumitomo Heavy
Industries (China), Ltd.
CEO – Sumitomo Heavy
Industries (Shanghai)Management, Ltd.

Post(s)/Title(s) Retained
Representative Director
Senior Executive Vice
President
General Manager –Corporate Planning Group
Director
General Manager –Corporate Technology
Operations Group
Director

Executive Vice President
General Manager –Corporate Quality Group

１Name
Yuji Takaishi

Name
Shinji Nishimura

Yoshiyuki Tomita

Mikio Ide

Katsuhiko Taniguchi

New Post(s)/Title(s)Representative Director andPresident – Sumitomo (S.H.I.)
Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Previous Post(s)/Title(s)Senior Executive Director –Sumitomo (S.H.I.)
Construction Machinery Co.,Ltd.

Senior Vice President

Vice President

Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Representative Director andPresident – Sumitomo Heavy
Industries Process Equiipment
Co., Ltd.

Post(s)/Title(s) Retained
Senior Vice President
Representative Director andPresident – Sumitomo (S.H.I.)
Construction Machinery SalesCo., Ltd.
General Manager – Plastics
Machinery Division
General Manager – Defense
Systems Group
General Manager – Precision
Equipment Group
General Manager –Mechatronics Division

NameShinji Shimomura

Kazuo Hiraoka
Tatsuya Endo
Taiji Tsuchiya
Eiji Kojima
Shigeru Tajima

Regional General Manager –Kansai OfficeDirector, General Manager –Planning and Management
Section – Sumitomo HeavyIndustries Process Equipment
Co., Ltd.
General Manager –Purchasing Department

General Manager – Purchasing
Department

Chief Staff Manager –Purchasing Department

Shuichi Kawai

Yuji Imasato※ Please note that Sumitomo (S.H.I.) Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Heavy Industries (China) Co., Ltd.,
Sumitomo Heavy Industries (Shanghai) Management, Ltd., and Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co., Ltd.
are all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. Please also note that Sumitomo (S.H.I.)
Construction Machinery Sales Co., Ltd. is all wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo (S.H.I.) Construction Machinery Co.,Ltd.

(Effective at the End of June 2016)
1.
Candidate for New Director

Shinji Shimomura

2.

Retiring Director

Yuji Takaishi

3.

Candidate for New
Corporate Auditor
Retiring External CorporateAuditor

Yuji Takaishi

4.

Current Position(s):Senior Vice President
Senior Executive Director – Sumitomo (S.H.I.) Construction
Machinery Co., Ltd. and Representative Director and President– Sumitomo Heavy Construction Machinery Sales Co., Ltd.
Current Position(s):Representative Director
Executive Vice President
General Manager – Export Administration Department andRegional General Manager – Kansai Office

Yukio KinoshitaEND２