Notice Regarding Change in Appointment of Directors with Representative Rights

We hereby notify you that a resolution regarding a change in appointment of directors with representative rights wasreached at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on February 25, 2011, as described below:

Notification
1. Reason for the Change
Corporate rejuvenation

2. Names and Posts of New and Previous Directors with Representative Rights（New Appointment）Name: Shunsuke Betsukawa
New post: Director with Representative Rights, Executive Vice President, CFO, General Manager, CorporateFinance, Accounting & Administration Group and Export Administration Department（Retiring Director）Name: Yukio Kinoshita
Previous post: Director with Representative Rights, Senior Executive Vice President, CFO, General Manager ofExport Administration Department

3. Profile of New Director with Representative Rights
Date of birthProfileMay 9, 1954

March 1978: Graduated from Faculty of Law, Kyoto University
April 1978: Joined SHI
July 2001: Manager of Corporate Administration Department, Corporate Finance,
Accounting & Administration Group,
April 2007: Senior Vice President, General Manager of Corporate Finance,
Accounting & Administration Group, and Manager of Corporate
Administration Department
April 2009: Senior Vice President, General Manager of Corporate Finance,Accounting & Administration Group and Corporate Planning &Development Group
June 2009: Director, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Corporate Finance,
Accounting & Administration Group and Corporate Planning &Development Group
April 2010: Director, Executive Vice President, General Manager of CorporateFinance, Accounting & Administration Group

4. Scheduled Date of Appointment: April 1, 2011

１Shares held(Thousandsof shares)105. Other Personel Moves, Apart from the Direcetor with Administrative Rights(As of April 1, 2011)
New postPresident and CEO, Sumitomo(S.H.I) Construction
Machinery Co., Ltd.
President and CEO, Sumitomo(S.H.I) Construction
Machinery Sales Co., Ltd.

Full-time Consultant
Chinese Delegate

Full-time Consultant
Full-time Consultant

Regional General Manager,
Kansai Branch
General Manager, Corporate
Marketing Department
Senior Vice President

Previous post
Director withRepresentative Rights
Senior Executive Vice
President
CFO
General Manager, Export
Administration
Department

Positions retained
Director of the Company

Name
Yukio Kinoshita

Senior Executive Vice
President of the Company
Director, Senior Executive
Vice President, Sumitomo(S.H.I) Construction
Machinery Co., Ltd.
Director, Sumitomo(S.H.I) Construction
Machinery Sales Co., Ltd.
Executive Vice President
Regional GeneralManager, Kansai Branch
General Manager,
Corporate MarketingDepartment
Senior Vice President
General Manager, Internal
Control Department
Associate Executive
Officer
General Manager,
Mechatronics Division
General Manager,
Precision Equipment
Group

Director of the Company

Mikio Ide

Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
General Manager, Internal
Control Department
Senior Vice President

Associate Executive
Officer, Internal Control
Department

Vice President

Associate Executive
Officer, Marketing & Sales
Department, Quantum
Equipment Division
General Manager,
Research & Development
Center, Corporate
Technology Operations
Group２Vice President
General Manager, TechnicalResearch Center, Corporate
Technology Operations Group

Yasuhiko Seike

Shigeru Toyosumi
Makoto Kyouya

Senior Vice President

Osamu Sekiya

General Manager,Logistics & Parking
System Division
President, Sumitomo
Heavy Industries
Environment Co., Ltd.

Junjiro Nogami
Hitoshi Ushiyama
Kazumi Fujita

General Manager,
Quantum Equipment
Division

Yukio Kumata
Akihiro Morita

Yoshiyuki Tomita

General Manager, Precision
Equipment Group

Chief Staff Manager,
Corporate Planning &Development Group
General Manager,
Sales Manager,
Mechatronics Division
Mechatronics Division
General Manager, SteelDirector, General
Structure & Process Equipment Manager, Planning &DivisionControl Department,
President and CEO, Sumitomo Sumitomo Heavy
Heavy Industries Process
Industries Process
Equipment Co., Ltd.
Equipment Co., Ltd
Chairman of the Board,President and CEO,
Sumitomo (S.H.I) Construction Sumitomo (S.H.I)
Machinery Co., Ltd.
Construction MachineryCo., Ltd.
President and CEO,
Sumitomo (S.H.I)
Construction Machinery
Sales Co., Ltd.
President and CEO, Sumitomo General Manager,
Heavy Industries PTC Sales
Planning & Control
Co., Ltd.
Department, Power
Transmission &Controls Group(End of June, 2011)(1) Candidate for New Director:

Toshiharu Tanaka
Tatsuya Endo
Satoshi OkadaDirector of the Company
Director, Sumitomo(S.H.I) Construction
Machinery Sales Co., Ltd.

Kensuke Shimizu

Nobuhiko Kawamura

Hitoshi Kashimoto, Current Executive Vice President,
General Manager, Ship & Marine Division
President and CEO, Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine &Engineering Co., Ltd.

(2) Candidates for New Auditor:

Standing Auditor: Yukio Kinoshita
Standing Auditor: Shigeru Toyosumi
Outside Auditor : Hideo Kojima(3) Retiring Director:

Yukio Kinoshita (Will become a standing auditor afterretirement)(4) Retiring Auditors:

Eiichi Fujita
Nobuo Kadota
Yoshio Koura３

(5) The following change to the President and CEO of an affiliated company will be made at the annual shareholders’meeting of Nihon Spindle Manufacturing Co., Ltd on the condition that the retiring president and CEO ischosen as a director.
①Candidate for New President and CEO
Mamoru Mishima, Current Senior Vice President②Retiring President and CEO
Junai Saito※ Associate Executive Officer is the highest position in a line and is equivalent to the General Manager.
※As of April 1, 2011, the Corporate Technology Operations Group will be restructured to form the ProductDevelopment Management Division, the Intellectual Property Management Division, and the Technical ResearchCenter.
※ Sumitomo (S.H.I) Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Sumitomo (S.H.I) Construction Machinery Sales Co., Ltd.,
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co.,
Ltd., Sumitomo Heavy Industries Environment Co., Ltd., Nihon Spindle Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and SumitomoHeavy Industries PTC Sales Co., Ltd. are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.

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