February 27, 2007

Notice Regarding Change in Appointment of Representative Directors
We hereby notify you that a resolution relating to the change in appointment of the corporate
representative directors was reached at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on February 27,
2007, as described below:

Notification
1. Reason for the change in appointment
It has been four terms and eight years since the current President was appointed to the office,and targets for the Three-Year Medium-Term Management Plan, “Leap to Excellence 07” areexpected to be achieved. With the direction for growth well under way, it has become time toimplement a sweeping reform to formulate and implement the next medium-term management
plan under a new management team.

2. Names and new posts

NameYoshio Hinoh
Yoshinobu
Nakamura
Yukio Kinoshita
Shinji
Nishimura
Eiichi Fujita

New post
Representative Director and Chairmanof Board of Directors
President and Chief Executive Officer

Current post
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Director and Executive Vice
President
Representative
Director,Senior Director,Executive
Vice
Executive Vice President and CFO
President and CFO
Representative Director and Senior Director and Executive Vice
Executive Vice President
President
Director
Representative Director andSenior Executive Vice President

3. Scheduled date of appointment: April 1, 200714. Career summaries(1)

New post:

Representative Director and Chairman of Board of Directors

Name:

Yoshio Hinoh

Date of birth:

May 16, 1943 (63 years old)

Place of birth:

Osaka Prefecture

Final education: MS (Welding Engineering), Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka
University, March 1969

Career summary

April 1969:

Joins SHI

June 1995:

Appointed General Manager of Plastics Machinery
Division

June 1996:

Appointed Board Director and General Manager ofPlastics Machinery Division

June 1998:

Appointed Managing Director and General Director of
Plastics Machinery Division

April 1999:

Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer

April 2007:

Appointed Representative Director and Chairman ofBoard of Directors (planned)(2)

New post:

President and Chief Executive Officer

Name:

Yoshinobu Nakamura

Date of birth:

October 30, 1949 (57 years old)

Place of birth:

Kyoto Prefecture

Final education: MS, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, March 1975
Career summary

April 1975:

Joins SHI

March 1999:

Appointed General Manager of Planning and Control
Department, Plastics Machinery Division

February 2001:

Appointed General Manager of Laser Business Center

June 2002:

AppointedSenior

Vice

President

andGeneral

Manager of Laser Business Center
June 2003:

Appointed Senior Vice President, General Manager ofPrecision Equipment Group and General Manager ofLaser Business Center

June 2004:

Appointed
Manager

Executive

Vice

President,of Precision Equipment Group and General

Manager of Laser Business Center
2GeneralOctober 2004:

Appointed

Executive

Vice

President,

GeneralManager of Precision Equipment Group, General
Manager of Laser Business Center for the Precision
Equipment Group and Director of Mechatronics
Division
June 2005:

Appointed Board Director, Executive Vice President,
General Managerof Precision Equipment Group,

General Manager of Laser Business Center for thePrecision

EquipmentGroupandDirectorofMechatronics Division
April 2006:

Appointed Board Director, Executive Vice President,
Director of Electro-Mechanical Systems Division andDirector of Mechatronics Division

April 2007:

Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer(planned)(3)

New post:

Representative Director, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO

Name:

Yukio Kinoshita

Date of birth:

October 27, 1947 (59 years old)

Place of birth:

Toyama Prefecture

Final education: BS, School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University,
March 1970
Career summary

March 1970:

Joins SHI

June 2000:

AppointedSenior

Vice

President

andGeneral

Manager of Business Management Department ofCorporate Planning and Development GroupApril 2001:

AppointedSenior

Vice

President

andGeneral

Manager of Corporate Finance, Accounting andAdministration Group and CFO
December 2002: Appointed Executive Vice President and General
Manager of Corporate Finance, Accounting andAdministration Group and CFO
June 2003:

Appointed Board Director, Executive Vice PresidentandGeneral

ManagerofCorporateFinance,Accounting and Administration Group and CFO

3April 2007:

Appointed Representative Director, Senior Executive
Vice President and CFO (planned)(4)

New post:

Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President

Name:

Shinji Nishimura

Date of birth:

June 10, 1951 (55 years old)

Place of birth:

Osaka Prefecture

Final education: BS, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, March 1974
Career summary

April 1974:

Joins SHI

June 2002:

AppointedSeniorVice

PresidentandGeneral

Manager of Ship and Steel Structure Group
April 2003:

Appointed

Executive

OfficerandPresidentof

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering Co.,Ltd.
April 2005:

Appointed Senior Vice President, General Manager ofCorporate Planning & Development Group andDirector of Ship and Marine Division

June 2005:

Appointed Board Director, Senior Vice President,
General Manager of Corporate Planning Office andDirector of Ship and Marine Division

April 2006:

Appointed Board Director, Senior Executive Vice
President and General Manager of Planning andControl Department of Power Transmission & Controls
GroupApril 2007:

Appointed Representative Director, Senior Executive
Vice President and Director of Power Transmission &Controls Group (planned)

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