Keiji Toyabe has been appointed manager of the Nickel Development Institute’s (NiDI’s) liaison office in Tokyo, Japan. He will manage NiDI’s programmes and activities in Japan, reporting to Jim Lilly, vice-president, at NiDI headquarters in Toronto, Canada. Mr Toyabe holds bachelor and master of engineering degrees in metallurgy and nuclear engineering, respectively, from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He joined Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd. in 1968 and has held positions of increasing responsibility in Sumitomo’s copper, zinc and nickel-producing operations. Most recently, he was President of the Japan Coating Center Co. Ltd. Akira Ono, who has managed NiDI’s activities in Japan since 1 July 2002, has retired.
