MOSCOW (MRC) -- Toray Industries, Inc. (headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has announced in its press release titled "Toray to Purchase TenCate Advanced Composites Holding B.V." issued on March 15, 2018 that it had reached an agreement with Koninklijke Ten Cate B.V. (headquarters: Netherlands) to purchase the entire share of its subsidiary TenCate Advanced Composites Holding B.V. (headquarters: Netherlands, a Dutch carbon fiber composite material manufacturer), said the producer in its press release.
Following the completion of the discussions with the Works Council, as stipulated by Dutch laws, Toray announced that it concluded the share purchase agreement with KTC on July 8th, 2018.
The completion of the acquisition is based on the premise of receiving approval from the relevant regulatory authorities and Toray plans to announce it once all procedures are completed without delay.
Toray is acquiring the business from Koninklijke Ten Cate BV.
The acquisition is still subject to regulatory approvals.
It was earlier said, Toray Industries, Inc. announced that it decided to enhance the production capacity of polyolefin foam TORAYPEF. It will add a production facility with a capacity of about 2,000 tons a year at its Shiga Plant (Otsu, Shiga Prefecture), which will start operation in October 2019. The move will expand the Toray Group’s TORAYPEF production capacity around the world to 13,000 tons a year.
Toray Industries is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial products centered around technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry. Its founding business areas were fibers and textiles, as well as plastics and chemicals. Toray Group Malaysia companies are involved in four main businesses -- polyester fibres, textiles, plastic resins and polyester films.
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