4 February 2019
TORAYFAN™ Polypropylene Film
The lightest of all plastic films, TORAYFAN™
is a transparent, high-tensile film
with excellent electrical and mechanical properties,
and superior chemical resistance and moisture proofness.
With these characteristics,
TORAYFAN™ BO is widely used for industrial materials
(such as adhesive tapes) and food packaging, while
TORAYFAN™ NO, the non-oriented film
manufactured and marketed by
Toray Advanced Film Co., Ltd. has heat-seal properties
that are utilized for food applications such as
retort foods and for easyopening sealing materials
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Toray Industries, Inc. today announced that it decided
to increase the production capacity of
its polypropylene film TORAYFAN®
manufactured by Toray Plastics (America), Inc. (TPA).
A production facility with annual capacity of 30,000 tons
will be additionally built
at TPA’s Rhode Island Plant (Rhode Island, U.S.),
which aims to start operation in 2020.
The biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) market
in North America is estimated to grow
at a pace of 3% a year given the future population growth.
In the food packaging film market in particular,
there is an increasing push towards longer shelf life
for food stuff and diversification of package designs
for snacks, confections and health foods
such as nutrition bars.
The production capacity increase announced this time
in response to such diversification and sophistication
of customer needs and the company aims to
further expand the business
by enhancing the production capacity at TPA early on.
TORAYFAN® is the lightest among plastic films
and it is superior in transparency, toughness
It is widely used for general industrial applications,
capacitors and packaging materials and TPA has a high share
in the North American market
for high value-added packaging materials.
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