Toray Industries
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 Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, headquarters of Toray, in Chūō, Tokyo | |
Native name | 東レ株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Tōre Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Formerly | Toyo Rayon Co., Ltd. (1926-1970) |
| Type | Public (K.K) |
| TYO: 3402 TOPIX 100 Component Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Chemicals Textiles |
| Founded | January 1926 |
| Headquarters | 5F, Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower 2-1-1, Nihonbashi-Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8666, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman Akihiro Nikkaku, president |
| Products |
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| Revenue |  $ 17.86 billion (FY 2014)
(¥ 1,837 billion) (FY 2014) |
| $ 579 million (FY 2014)
(¥ 59.6 billion) (FY 2014) | |
| Owner | The Master Trust Bank of Japan (7.90%) Japan Trustee Services Bank (6.43%) Nippon Life (4.45%) Mitsui Fudosan (1.19%) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (0.51%) |
Number of employees | 45,881 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2014) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes | |
Toray Industries, Inc. (東レ株式会社, Tōre Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial products centered on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry.
Toray is currently the world's largest producer of carbon fiber, and Japan's largest producer of synthetic fiber. Its carbon fiber is extensively used in exterior components of the Boeing 787 airliner.
Its founding business areas were fibers and textiles, as well as plastics and chemicals. The company has also diversified into areas such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and R&D, medical products, reverse osmosis big membranes, electronics, IT-products, housing and engineering, as well as advanced composite materials.
The company is listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX 100 and Nikkei 225 stock market indices.