Maxell Holdings, Ltd. announced the appointment of Keiji Nakamura as Director from his current position of Executive Officer, Maxell, Ltd. Tatsuhiko Izumi is appointed as Outside Director. Shinobu Watanabe was appointed as outside director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Members. Hiroyuki Suzuki is appointed as Executive Officer, Risk Management and Special Assignments and Seiji Sumoto as Executive Officer, Sales Supervisory.
Maxell Ltd, formerly Maxell Holdings Ltd, is mainly engaged in the manufacturing and sales of energy, industrial materials and electric appliances and consumer products. The Company mainly operates through three business segments. The Energy segment manufactures and sells secondary batteries, such as coin type lithium secondary batteries, industrial lithium ion batteries and electrodes, and consumer lithium ion batteries, primary batteries such as lithium primary batteries and button batteries, and charger and battery packs. The Industrial Materials segment manufactures and sells optical components, functional materials, electroforming and precision parts, semiconductor-related embedded systems, mold and synthetic resin molded parts, adhesive tapes, radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems and Integrated Circuit (IC) cards, industrial rubber products and others. The Electric Appliance and Consumer segment manufactures and sells projectors, small electric equipments and others.