09.11.19
Osaka, Japan
www.toray.com
2019 Nonwovens Sales: $801 million
Key Personnel
Makoto Nishimura, general manager, Nonwoven and Advanced Fiber Materials Div. (Toray); Seo Jin Park, senior managing director, chief of SB Business Div. (Toray Advanced Materials Korea); Tatsu Matsushita, general manager, Performance Nonwoven Products Dept. (Toray)
Plants
Shiga and Ehime, Japan; Gumi, Korea; Nantong and Fushang, China; Jakaruta, Indonesia: Andhra Pradesh, India
Processes
Spunbond, Needlepunch, Spunlace, Papermaking
Brand Names
LIVSEN, AXTAR, TORCON, GULFENG
Major Markets
Hygiene, Industrial filtration, Civil engineering & construction, Face mask
Expansion in Asia and India responds to robust demand for polypropylene spunbond nonwovens at Toray. “We continue to maintain the number one supply network in these areas by continuous enhancement of material development,” says Masahi Fujii, Toray spokesperson. “In Asia, as competition becomes harder for hygiene customers along with continuous demand growing, every customer requires differentiated materials more and more than before. So we’ll continue to develop all kinds of high-value materials to respond to our customers’ needs and deliver them to our customers appropriately through our wide spread supply network.”
The largest manufacturer of polypropylene-based spunbond nonwovens in Asia, Toray has facilities in China, Indonesia, Korea and India. However, production on its first investment in India, an 18,000-ton-per-year spunbond line, has been delayed due to the Covid-19 epidemic. The company expects production to begin on the line once government lockdowns end.
“The hygiene materials business is expected to expand along with the increasing demand for disposable diapers. We will make sure to capture the demand in India, where the disposable diapers will be consumed, and accelerate the global business expansion of PP spunbond with a powerful production platform and high cost competitiveness,” Fujii says .
In other investment news, earlier this year Toray completed work on a 20,000-ton-per year spunbond line in Foshan, China. The investment represents Toray’s fifth line in China, where demand for the materials is growing more than 10% per year due to growth in the hygiene. Toray also operates two lines in Indonesia and one in South Korea, which was added in 2018.
www.toray.com
2019 Nonwovens Sales: $801 million
Key Personnel
Makoto Nishimura, general manager, Nonwoven and Advanced Fiber Materials Div. (Toray); Seo Jin Park, senior managing director, chief of SB Business Div. (Toray Advanced Materials Korea); Tatsu Matsushita, general manager, Performance Nonwoven Products Dept. (Toray)
Plants
Shiga and Ehime, Japan; Gumi, Korea; Nantong and Fushang, China; Jakaruta, Indonesia: Andhra Pradesh, India
Processes
Spunbond, Needlepunch, Spunlace, Papermaking
Brand Names
LIVSEN, AXTAR, TORCON, GULFENG
Major Markets
Hygiene, Industrial filtration, Civil engineering & construction, Face mask
Expansion in Asia and India responds to robust demand for polypropylene spunbond nonwovens at Toray. “We continue to maintain the number one supply network in these areas by continuous enhancement of material development,” says Masahi Fujii, Toray spokesperson. “In Asia, as competition becomes harder for hygiene customers along with continuous demand growing, every customer requires differentiated materials more and more than before. So we’ll continue to develop all kinds of high-value materials to respond to our customers’ needs and deliver them to our customers appropriately through our wide spread supply network.”
The largest manufacturer of polypropylene-based spunbond nonwovens in Asia, Toray has facilities in China, Indonesia, Korea and India. However, production on its first investment in India, an 18,000-ton-per-year spunbond line, has been delayed due to the Covid-19 epidemic. The company expects production to begin on the line once government lockdowns end.
“The hygiene materials business is expected to expand along with the increasing demand for disposable diapers. We will make sure to capture the demand in India, where the disposable diapers will be consumed, and accelerate the global business expansion of PP spunbond with a powerful production platform and high cost competitiveness,” Fujii says .
In other investment news, earlier this year Toray completed work on a 20,000-ton-per year spunbond line in Foshan, China. The investment represents Toray’s fifth line in China, where demand for the materials is growing more than 10% per year due to growth in the hygiene. Toray also operates two lines in Indonesia and one in South Korea, which was added in 2018.