Mr. Sugimoto, senior managing director of Toray,
talks about five policies for expanding their textile business.
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Mr. Yukihiro Sugimoto,
senior managing director of Toray |
Mr. Yukihiro Sugimoto, chief of the Fibers and Textiles Division and senior managing director of Toray, talked about Toray’s business strategy for expanding their textile business at the press conference as follows:
- Expansion of New Value Creator. Expanding new products and new supply chains.
- Developing and expanding textile materials with advanced technology.
- Recycling and developing environment-responsive products.
- Expanding promotion of products which capitalize on Toray’s strengths.
- Finding the solution to issues in the struggling textile business.
Toray is going to operate on the premise of the world in the future, and that can be achieved by manufacturing and promoting products which can be accepted in the world market, said Mr. Sugimoto.
He added, “I return home from Indonesia after 4 years’ absence. In the meantime, the place of the Japanese textile industry within Asia has significantly changed, and I see that the structural system of the domestic industry has radically altered as well. Squarely facing up to this fact, Toray must make a strong effort to transform itself from Japan’s Toray to the world’s Toray.”
Trial dyeing of cotton and Tactel union fabric
with LANASET PA dye in China.
A major dyeing firm in China has been carrying out several dyeing tests with Huntsman’s LANASET PA dye to dye union fabric of cotton and DuPon’s new nylon “Tactel” and have obtained good results. “Tactel” belongs to the nylon 66 group and it seems to contain many carbon atoms in a nonpolar alkyl group of fiber molecules. It looks like a major dyeing firm in China wants to make “Tactel” into a dyeing finishing brand with differentiated material since it has an excellent hand, being ultrafine fiber with good moisture permeability, breathability and draping characteristics.
Soaring world nickel prices affect price of rotary screens.
The world nickel price is skyrocketing. The costs are gradually increasing in areas using nickel in stainless steel and the price of rotary screens is rising.
Progress in research into high quality W&W in China
according to strict standards of measurement by AATCC.
There is an increasing amount of research into raising the quality of Wash and Wear cotton according to the standard measurements of AATCC124-2000 of the U.S. in dyeing firms in the coastal areas of China. At the dyeing seminar held in China, it was announced that they have achieved new results after trying a low-temperature, moist-steaming method during aftertreatment, which have gotten a lot of attention among textile operators.
The outline of this method is to carry out padding with treatment liquid made of 3 items of Clariant’s agents and 2 agents made in China, moist steaming, soaping, rinsing, drying, soft tentering and physical shrink-proofing in that order.
According to them, the characteristic of this method is to set up a polymerization reaction in a climate-controlled reactor without drying after padding, and textiles polymerized under wet conditions have a good smoothing property and washing fastness and the strength retention is higher than that of the dry-heat method. Clariant’s resins and catalysts are good for this method. It looks like they are using a moist-steaming sampling machine manufactured by Bentz of Switzerland.
Hisaka Works in preparation for establishing office in China from this autumn.
Hisaka Works, manufacturing a wide range of machines including dyeing machines and food machines, has begun preparation for establishing a new office in China from this autumn.
Inabata & Co. intensifies overseas sales of dyestuff and textile auxiliaries.
Inabata & Co. has been expanding their overseas sales target of dyestuff and textile auxiliaries. Their group has already been expanding dyeing lab. facilities as well as sales offices in Shanghai.
Asahi Kako/Rikken produces squeals of delight with machine to make oil smoke transparent and colorless and simplified exhaust heat recovery device for ISO14000 and energy-saving measures.
Orders are increasing for a simplified exhaust heat recovery device and “Mist-grip + Kesmac,”a machine that prevents odor, dust and oil smoke sold by Asahi Kako/Rikken in a reflection of the high-price of oil and an increasing number of companies getting ISO14001 certification.
About this, Asahi Kako/Rikken said, “Chemical manufacturers, spinning companies and dyeing firms that have received ISO14001 certification have been looking for models for environmental measures, after including environmental measures expenses in the budget. We are receiving large orders for Mist-grip + Kesmac like a half-dozen or dozen from one company, as they are regarded as good measures for odor, dust and oil smoke. Orders for simplified exhaust heat recovery devices are large, too, like four units for one firm for energy-saving because of recent soaring oil prices. It really looks like they are meeting exact needs.”
Drop in vat dyes consumption among JWDFA plants.
In the firms affiliated with the Japan Wool Dyers’ and Finishers’ Association(FWDFA), consumption of vat dyes is decreasing. This might be because of a double factor: drops in production of vat dyes in Japan and troubles occurring in the import of vat dyes.
Former director, Mr. Juergen Mecheels of Hohenstein Research Institute passes away.
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| The late Mr. Juergen Mecheels |
Former director of the Hohenstein Research Institute, Mr. Juergen Mecheels passed away on July 31 at the age of 78.
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