Osamu Kawatate

Chief Technology Officer, Director-Member of the Board, Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.

Osamu Kawatate, Chief Technology Officer, Director-Member of the Board of Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd., joined Yanmar in 1992, and successively served as the director of Yanmar Central Research Center, chairman of Yanmar (Shandong) Technology Research and Development Co., Ltd. He has been in his current position since June 2020.

Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. was founded in 1912 and headquartered in Osaka. It is a representative group integrated machinery and equipment manufacturing in Japan. Its main products include diesel engines (for marine and industry), agricultural machinery, engineering machinery, generators and air conditioners, hydraulic controls and gears, etc. It has many manufacturing bases and sales centers in Asia, Europe, North America and South America. In 2020, the company achieved sales revenue of about 7 billion US dollars.