13 April 2016
DETAILS
(Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa)
will grow high performance nonwoven facilities
at their Nagoya works as follows,
to meet the increasing need moving forward
for premium diapers.
- Plant Capacity:
- Sunrex Industry Co., Ltd. (Yokkaichi City): 49,000 tons/year
- Mitsui Hygiene Materials (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Thailand): 30,000 tons/year
- Mitsui Chemicals Nonwovens (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (China): 15,000 tons/year
Within our Mid-Term Business Plan we are positioning
our healthcare business
as one of our targeted business domains
that drive growth, in addition to
Mobility, Food & Packaging domains.
The nonwoven business,
as part of the healthcare business sector,
aims to further expand by supplying
both Japan and the rest of Asia
to support the growth of premium diaper manufacturers there.
The disposable diaper market in Asia
is witnessing steady expansions in demand in part because of
* the increasing use of disposable diapers and
* the relaxing of China’s one-child policy.
In recent years there has also been
a dramatic expansion of the high-quality,
highly functional premium disposable diaper market,
resulting in more efforts on
the part of manufacturers
to develop systems to increase production.
To foster a more stable supply of
high performance nonwoven fabrics
for premium diaper manufacturers, we recently decided
to increase our high performance nonwoven facilities.
By choosing to bring new facilities online
at our Nagoya works, which serves
as a hub for our functional materials production,
we are anticipating that the utilization of technical skills
developed at the Nagoya works will lead to
further improvements in
our high performance nonwoven process
with its techniques and will strengthen our engineering system.
To meet the growing demand
for high performance nonwoven fabrics in Asia moving forward,
we focus on further increases
to our manufacturing facilities that would offer
both of better quality and cost-competitiveness.
We believe that this will further solidify our position
as a leader in the high performance nonwoven market.
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