Toray since 1985 has maintained a research and technology development system focused on the Technology Center, which mobilizes to draft company-wide strategies and key projects for the research and technology development. In the Fibers & Textiles, Plastics & Chemicals and Carbon Fiber Composite Materials, the current organization allows the Division, Manufacturing Division and Technology Center to maintain their independence, while also integrating them to cooperate with each other. For the Water Treatment, IT-related Products, and Life Science, we have established an organizational structure that integrates production and sales for highly flexible business management, prompt customer responses and speeding-up of technology development.

Each laboratory and technology department conduct R&D keyed to its own business operations. But they also advance approaches that cut across divisional borders to address the lateral evolution of collaborative research and element technology, probing solutions for emergency problems and taking other pertinent actions. To speed up the process from development through commercialization, "Advanced Materials Projects" are established in the New Projects Development Division. This scheme can clarify which business units should become, the recipients of the outcomes of research and technology development, with dedicated project leaders stepping in to determine the term of the project. The research, technology, production and sales become fully integrated to advance the work required to complete and commercialize the plans.