Takao Nishino

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. engages in the steel business. It operates through the Steel and Other segments. The Steel segment includes pipes and tubes, sheets and plates, construction materials, railway parts, castings and forgings, bars, and titanium products. The Other segment comprises of real estate leasing and electronic components businesses. The company was founded in April 1897 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan

Chuo Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd. engages in the production and marketing of chemicals and ferroalloys. Its services include waste vitrification and detoxification; production and marketing of hydrogen storage alloys and manganese chemical products, and graphite for negative poles of lithium ion batteries; civil engineering; and construction fields. The company was founded in February 1934 and is headquartered in Kashima, Japan.