The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE®) is a global high technology society. In Japan SAMPE Japan is under the SAMPE Global (Headquarters of SAMPE in America).
SAMPE Japan is the center of material technology, processing and application, R&D, production, usage information as well as education.
SAMPE Japan also provides forums such as discussions, information exchange and tours.
Through these activities, SAMPE visions to contribute for the benefit of all members.

The main business includes the following.
・ holding of an international conference (JISSE and JISTES)
・ holding of technical information exchange meeting (referred to as a regular meeting)
・ Symposium, seminars, research meetings, held tours
・ SAMPE Journal, Journal of Advanced Materials, distribution of such SAMPE headquarters journals, as well as the association newsletter, News Letter, distribution and publishing, such as membership list

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Japan Region established as SAMPE Japan Chapter in 1984 will mark their 35th anniversary in 2019. During this period, applications of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), which has positioned itself as a dominant advanced material, have also expanded from space and sports products in the initial stage to various machinery parts. In the last decades, CFRP has been used extensively in aircraft. Today, CFRP applications have further expanded to mass-produced products such as automobiles and electrical products.

A key to this expansion is enhancement of productivity considering costs. For instance, prolonged molding time in production has been a bottleneck for thermosetting resin. Today, however, resins that can harden in one to two minutes have started appearing in the market successively. New short-time forming technologies, such as the High-Pressure Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) method and the Sheet Molding Compound (SMC), fully-automated laminating process technology needing no manpower, and thermoplastic resin composite materials with excellent impact resistance, are in the stage of being put to practical use.

SAMPE has been pursuing the advancement of not only materials (M) but also process engineering (PE). SAMPE is fully immersed in this trend and is in a position to actively promote and support the implementation of advanced composite materials. SAMPE Japan is committed to develop advanced materials by revitalizing its activities to effectively match the needs for new materials of the members, who are consumers of materials used in the manufacture of products and parts with useful technologies proposed by members who produce the materials.

（July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2024）

President

Kiyoshi UZAWA

Kanazawa Institute of Technology / ICC

Immediate Past President

Tsuyoshi OZAKI

Composites R&D, Co., Ltd.

Executive Vice President

Takeshi TANAMURA

SHIKIBO Ltd.

Vice President

Shin UTSUNOMIYA

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Vice President

Jun TAKAHASHI

The University of Tokyo

Treasurer & Secretary

Yoshiaki SOMEYA

Shonan Material Technology

Global Board of Director

Kazuto TANAKA

Doshisha University

Director, Planning Committee

Hideki USAMI

USAMI CONTROL LAB.

Director, Technical Conference

Shunichi BABA

Sunwa Trading Corporation

Director, Composites Committee

Junichi YANAGIHARA

JAPAN COMPOSITE MATERIALS CO., LTD

Director, Membership & Publicity Committee

Shinji MASUDA

Econology Brain Corporation

Director, Awards Committee

Tetsuyuki KYONO

Keihan-na Composites Office

Director, Student Committee

Masahito UEDA

Nihon University

Director, Bylaws Committee

Yasunari KURATANI

KADO Co., Ltd.

Global Executive Vice President

Tsuyoshi OZAKI

Composites R&D, Co., Ltd.

Global Cabinet Member

Kiyoshi UZAWA

Kanazawa Institute of Technology / ICC

Global Director

Kazuto TANAKA

Doshisha University

Global Past President

Toshio TANIMOTO

Shonan Institute of Technology