Toyo Tire and Rubber Company Limited (Toyo Tire) announced personnel changes effective from 1 April. Furthermore, Toyo Tire has promoted Takahiro Nakai to general manager (GM) of the company's Hydo Manufacturing complex. Previously, Nakai served as GM of the Urethane Autoparts Production (UAP) department, as well as part-time president of two subsidiaries - FCC Company Limited (FCL) and Toyo Soflan Company Limited (TSCL).

Toyo Tire has appointed Eiji Azuma as GM of the Intellectual Property department at the company's Technology Management centre.