Toray Industries Inc has decided to construct a new polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compound production facility at Hungarian site of its US subsidiary Zoltek Companies Inc, the world’s largest supplier of large tow carbon fibres.
It is Toray’s first resin compound production facility in Europe and is expected to start operations in March 2018 with 3,000 tonnes annual production capacity.
PPS resins are high-performance materials, superior in heat and chemical resistance, mechanical strength and inherently flame retardant. They are used in automotive electrical and powertrain components. Europe, in particular, has strict regulations regarding fuel usage and emissions as well as vehicle safety and European automotive suppliers are increasingly using PPS resins in automotive powertrain and sensor applications to reduced part weight and to enable safety improvements. The PPS market in Europe has been rapidly expanding in these growing automotive applications as well as in growing industrial applications.
With this establishment, Toray will have eight PPS compound manufacturing locations in six countries: Japan, China (Shenzhen, Suzhou and Chengdu), the Republic of Korea, Thailand, US and Hungary.
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