Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd. announced personal changes, effective January 16, 2019. The company appointed Naruhito Ishihata, director, executive officer, in charge of finance, in charge of planning department and in charge of US (representative director, chairman of Toyo Tanso USA Inc.) as director, executive officer, in charge of finance and in charge of planning department, Zhan GuoBin, director, executive officer, in charge of global sales division and in charge of Asia (chairman and president of Shanghai Toyo Tanso Co. Ltd.) (Chairman and president of Shanghai Toyo Tanso Industrial Co. Ltd) (Chairman and president of Zhejiang Co. Ltd) as director, executive officer, in charge of global sales division (chairman and president of Shanghai Toyo Tanso Co. Ltd.) (Chairman and president of Shanghai Toyo Tanso Industrial Co. Ltd)) (Chairman and president of Zhejiang Co. Ltd), Arno Cloos, executive officer, in charge of Europe, (president, Toyo Tanso Europe. S.p.A) (president, Toyo Tanso France S.A) (president, GTD Graphit Technologie GmBH) as (president, GTD Graphit Technologie GmBH), Makoto Kitabatake, executive officer, in charge of Green Innovation Development Department as advisor to Global R&D division, Kiyofumi Sone, Deputy director general production division as Deputy director general production division and general manager of Machining department, production division, Naoharu Komoda (president, Totan Kako Co. Ltd.) as general manager of Carbon Brush department, production division, Masatoshi Yokoyama, deputy general manager of Mechanical carbon development & production department, production division and plant manager of Hagiwara plant, Mechanical carbon development & production department as (president, Totan Kako Co. Ltd.), Hiromichi Okashita, general manager of Machining department, production division as (president, Ohwada Carbon Industry Co.Ltd).