The new weather simulation laboratory introduced at TECHNORAMA GIII recreates more diverse weather conditions including extremely low temperature and low humidity environment such as in the North Pole and South Pole as well as flash flood conditions. It has three individually controlled temperature-regulated rooms (one main chamber and two secondary chambers), which enable experiments of sudden temperature changes in our daily life, for example, moving from outdoors into an air-conditioned building in midsummer.
In addition to this, the Human Body and Exercise Measurement and Evaluation Room is equipped with new evaluation and analysis devices including electromyography, diaphoremeter and motion capture system so that Toray can keep working on the development of new fields. It enhances evaluation and analysis technologies through physiological analysis based on human engineering and motion analysis based on sports engineering. Moreover, the company will strengthen highly functional wear development technology and sewing technology by utilizing the analysis data obtained at the laboratory.
The company developed a Textile library and a Material and Product Showroom to manage and spread the information regarding fibers, textile materials, and product development at the Toray Group. It also set up an Open Lab, a joint development base, to upgrade products collaborating within and outside the company and cutting the time it takes for development.
The Advanced Textiles Development Center is Toray’s headquarters for development of high-level processing technologies of spinning and yarn texturing to weaving, knitting, dyeing and sewing. Toray introduced the weather simulation laboratory TECHNORAMA for the first time in 1983 and has been developing numerous highly functional products such as moisture-permeable waterproof material and functional inners. In 2008, it established TECHNORAMA GII, a large-scale weather simulation laboratory that can house structures such as cars, at the Toray Fibers & Textiles Research Laboratories (China) Co., Ltd. (TFRC) in China and has been promoting the development of highly functional textiles, industrial materials and environment-conscious materials in collaboration with the Japanese counterpart.
TECHNORAMA GIII will accelerate the development of high value added products based on new concepts of cutting-edge evaluation and analysis technologies, and will further reinforce the collaboration within and outside the company to contribute to the expansion of Toray’s fibers and textiles business.
