Toray Snapshot
Toray Industries, through a string of some 225 subsidiaries and affiliates, weaves together a diversified enterprise producing a swath of advanced materials. Its chemists create a slew of fibers, textiles, films, resins, chemicals, plastics, and other engineered components. Business is divided among six segments: Fibers & Textiles, Plastics & Chemicals, IT-related Products, Carbon Fiber Composite Materials, Environment & Engineering, and Life Science & Other. Core businesses, Fibers & Textiles and Plastics & Chemicals, churn out materials for apparel to parts for vehicles and aircraft. Other offerings range from contact lenses to semiconductor circuit materials. Toray's sales are focused in Asia, chiefly Japan.