February 28, 2017
For Immediate Release
Company NameRepresentative（Securities CodeContact: Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
: Michiya Kadota, President: 6370, First section of TSE）
: Hiroaki Mori, General Manager ofCorporate Planning Department（Tel. +81-3-6743-5336）

Announcement of Changes in Representative Director and Other Directors
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. is pleased to announce that a meeting of its Board of Directors on February 28, 2017 resolved to makethe following changes in the representative director and other directors. These changes will take effect on April 1, 2017. An informal
decision was also made to appoint a new director and member of the Audit & Supervisory Board, which will take effect on June 29.
The appointment of the new director and member of the Audit & Supervisory Board that will take effect on June 29 is expected tobe formalized at the 81th annual meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 29, 2017.

1. Changes in representative director
Changes in duties of representative director (To take effect on April 1, 2017)
NameNew position
Koichi Iioka
Executive Senior Managing Director
General Manager of Global Business Division andin charge of the chemicals businessCurrent position
Executive Senior Managing Director
General Manager of Chemicals Division

2. Changes involving other directors(1) Changes in responsibilities of directors (To take effect on April 1, 2017)
NameNew position
Kiyoshi Itou
Managing Director
General Manager of Group Administrative Division
Toshitaka
Managing Director
KodamaGeneral Manager of Sales II Division and in chargeof the facilities businessYoshio Yamada Director
General Manager of Sales I Division
Ikuo Ishimaru

Hirohiko EjiriDirector
General Manager of Group Quality & Production
DivisionDirector
General Manager of Corporate Planning Division

Current positionManaging Director
General Manager of Administrative Division
Managing Director
General Manager of Facilities Division
Director
General Manager of Sales Group I, Chemicals
Division
Director
General manager of Global Quality Group, Facilities
Division
Director
General Manager of Corporate Planning Division(2) Candidate for a director (Scheduled date of appointment: June 29, 2017)
Name
New position
Current position
Ryoko Sugiyama Director (Part-Time)*1*1 Ms. Ryoko Sugiyama is a candidate for an external director and will be registered as an independent officer.
Note: See the Supplementary Material for Ms. Ryoko Sugiyama’s career summary.

(3) Retirement of directors (Scheduled date of retirement: June 29, 2017)
Name
New position
Toshiyuki Nakai Senior Corporate Advisor

Current position
Chairman and Director

Seiji Nakamura Director (Part-Time )*2*2 Mr. Seiji Nakamura is an external director and is registered as an independent officer.

(4) Candidate for a member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Scheduled date of appointment: June 29, 2017)
Name
New position
Current position
Shigekazu
Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board Torikai(Part-Time)*3*3 Mr. Shigekazu Torikai is a candidate for an external member of the Audit & Supervisory Board, and will be registered as anindependent officer.
Note: See the Supplementary Material for Mr. Shigekazu Torikai’s career summary.

(5) Retirement of a member of the Audit & Supervisory Board (Scheduled date of retirement: June 29, 2017)
NameNew position
Current position
Tamio Uda
Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board*4(Part-Time)*4 Mr. Tamio Uda is an external member of the Audit & Supervisory Board and is registered as an independent officer.

(Reference) Members of the Audit & Supervisory Board from June 29, 2017
NamePosition
RemarkShiro Hayashi
Full-Time member of the Audit &Remaining
Supervisory Board
appointed
Kenjiro Kobayashi
Full-Time member of the Audit &Remaining
Supervisory Board
appointed
Shigekazu TorikaiMember of the Audit & Supervisory
Newly appointed
Board (Part-Time)
Note: Mr. Kenjiro Kobayashi is an external member of the Audit & Supervisory Board and is registered as an independent officer.
The term of office of Mr. Shiro Hayashi and Mr. Kenjiro Kobayashi will expire at the close of the 84th annual meeting ofshareholders. The term of office of Mr. Shigekazu Torikai will expire at the close of the 85th annual meeting of shareholders.

Supplementary Material

Career Summary of Candidate for Director

Name/Career Summary

Date of Birth

Number ofshares held(unit: 100shares)

May 1996
September 2007
September 2007
Ryoko Sugiyama
July 27, 1955

April 2010

June 2010

June 2015
June 2017

Established Sugiyama & Kurihara Environmental Consultants,Inc.; representative director
Director, Sugiyama & Kurihara Environmental Consultants, Inc.
(current post)
Associate professor, Faculty of Environment and Disaster
Research (now Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies), Fuji
Tokoha University (now Tokoha University)
Professor, Faculty of Environment and Disaster Research (nowFaculty of Social and Environmental Studies), Fuji Tokoha
University (now Tokoha University) (current post)
Outside director and member of the audit and supervisorycommittee, LECIP HOLDINGS CORPORATION (listed on thefirst section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) (current post)
Part-Time outside director, UACJ Corporation (listed on the firstsection of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) (current post)
Director (Part-Time) of Kurita Water Industries, Ltd. (scheduled)

0Career Summary of Candidate for Member of the Audit & Supervisory Board

Name/Career Summary

Date of Birth

Number ofshares held(unit: 100shares)

March 1990
Shigekazu Torikai
March 12, 1947

April 1990
September 1991
April 1994
June 2017

Finished legal apprenticeship and registered as an attorney (42ndbatch of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association)
Joined Suzuki Hideo (Takunosuke) Law Office
Joined Taga Kenjiro Law OfficeOpened Torikai Law OfficeMember of the Audit & Supervisory Board, Kurita Water
Industries, Ltd. (Part-Time) (scheduled)0