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Toray Industries Announces Recertification under the ISO9001 International Standard for Quality Management Systems

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Mar. 31, 2023

Toray Industries, Inc.


Tokyo, Japan, March 31, 2023 – Toray Industries, Inc., announced today that it has received ISO 9001:20151 recertification notification for its Nagoya and Chiba plants. Following inappropriate actions relating to UL LLC (hereinafter, “UL”) certification, which Toray disclosed on January 31, 2022, this ISO certification was withdrawn on July 12, 2022 by the Japan Quality Assurance Organization (JQA), which is a registered certification body of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

On October 28, 2022, a temporary suspension of certification for activities related to some products of the Nagoya Plant was lifted. The ISO recertification announced today marks the conclusion of Toray’s efforts to fully reinstate ISO9001 certification.

Toray will continue to work company-wide to implement measures to prevent any recurrence of inappropriate actions relating to UL certification and to ensure proper operation of its quality management system (QMS). The company will do its utmost to further heighten compliance awareness across the Toray Group and completely restore the trust of society.
1 An international standard for quality management systems


An overview of this matter is as detailed below.

1. Details of ISO 9001 recertification     
(1) Scope of activities subject to recertification
• Nagoya Plant The design / development and manufacture of nylon resin, PBT resin, PPS resin, liquid crystal polyester resin, and carbon fiber reinforced resin (TORAYCA)
The temporary suspension of certification for other activities of the same plant was lifted on October 28, 20222
• Chiba Plant The design / development and manufacture of ABS resin and carbon fiber reinforced resin pellets
(2) Applicable standard : ISO 9001:2015
(3) Registration numbers
• Nagoya Plant : JQA-0643
• Chiba Plant : JQA-QMA16646
(4) Certification dates
• Nagoya Plant : March 24, 2023
• Chiba Plant : February 17, 2023
 

2 Certification reinstatement on October 28, 2022
• The design / development and manufacture of ε-caprolactam, isomers of halogenated aromatics, nylon resins for fibers, polyamideimide resin (ti-polymer), modified nylon particle, specialty nylon resin, methacrylic resin
• The design / development and manufacture of hexamethylenediamine, hexamethylenediammoniumadipate
• The manufacture of polyester-ether resin (Hytrel)3
• The design / development and manufacture (outsource) of intermediate materials for carbon fiber composites
• The design / development and manufacture (outsource) of CFRP (carbon fiber-reinforced plastic) composites
• The design / development and manufacture (outsource) of silicone compound
3 Product commissioned by Toray Celanese Co., Ltd.