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Obituary: JSW's Takehiro Amaya, 47

By: Bill Bregar

CORONA, CALIF. (Dec. 17, 2:20 p.m. ET) — Takehiro Amaya, president of JSW Plastics Machinery Inc., died suddenly of a heart attack on Nov. 17. He was 47. Amaya became president of JSW in Corona, the U.S. headquarters of the Tokyo-based Japan Steel Works Ltd., in 2010, succeeding long-time president Fumio Hirayama.

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