Toray Industries

Toray Industries, Inc.

Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, headquarters of Toray, in Chūō, Tokyo
Native name	東レ株式会社
Romanized name	Tōre Kabushiki-gaisha
Type	Public KK
Traded as	: TOPIX 100 Component Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Chemicals Textiles
Founded	January 1926; 91 years ago (1926-01)
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	Fibers Textiles Plastics Chemicals IT-related materials Carbon fiber composite materials Water treatment membranes Pharmaceuticals Medical products
Revenue	$ 17.86 billion (FY 2014) (¥ 1,837 billion) (FY 2014)
Net income	$ 579 million (FY 2014) (¥ 59.6 billion) (FY 2014)
Number of employees	45,881 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2014)
Website	Official website
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$ 17.86 billion (FY 2014)

$ 579 million (FY 2014)

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.

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 bigmembranes, electronics, IT-products, housing and engineering, as well as advanced composite materials.