Toray Industries, Inc. (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President, CEO & COO: Akihiro Nikkaku; hereinafter referred to as “Toray”) and Toray Sakai Weaving & Dyeing (Nantong) Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Jiangsu, Nantong; Chairman: Kazuyuki Adachi; hereinafter referred to as “TSD”) announced today that the companies would be participating in Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics, the world’s largest apparel exhibition, to be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from October 20, 2014 (Mon) to October 23 (Thu), 2014. Toray will be in booth number W2B02 in the Japan pavilion, and TSD will be in E5D10 inside the China pavilion.
Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics is an exhibition of textiles for apparels, and is the world’s largest such exhibition both in terms of number of exhibitors and the number of visitors it attracts. It was first held in 1995 and this year is the 20th edition.
Toray and TSD will be taking part in this year’s exhibition under the common theme of “TECHNOLOGY IS ECOLOGY,” and the companies will propose environmentally friendly apparel materials that are highly functional and sensitive at the same time.
Toray will exhibit plant-derived fashion materials, highly functional materials with superior water absorption, quick-drying, stretch, heat-retention, highly durable and light-weight properties as well as artificial leather with increased varieties achieved by adding surface finishing and prints. The company will introduce high quality, made-in-Japan, apparel materials that are developed and produced by Toray in Japan.
Under the theme “TORAY LIFE STYLE,” TSD will display highly functional materials with windbreak and anti-see-through properties for various applications such as women’s, men’s and children’s clothes and various daily life applications such as fashion, outdoor sports and uniforms, as well as highly sensitive materials with superior color expression. The exhibition booth will showcase a large number of product samples using materials produced by TSD to introduce its wide variety of materials through the product images.
Toray has been pursuing the Asia, America and Emerging Country Business Expansion (AE-II) Project to actively develop Toray Group businesses in Asia, the U.S. and other emerging countries that are expected to see remarkable growth in the future as one of the businesses supporting the growth strategy under the medium-term management program Project AP-G 2016 that started in 2014. Of those markets, the company positions China as the most important region in the Group’s future business expansion outside Japan. It considers the participation in Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics as the best opportunity to introduce its advanced materials and technologies in the growing Chinese market.
To realize its corporate philosophy of “Contributing to society through the creation of new value with innovative ideas, technologies and products,” Toray Group is determined to continue focusing on actively introducing advanced materials in growing markets.
The outline of the exhibits by the Toray Group companies is as follows:
