Research and Development

Widening Business area through unique R&D activities

Toray Fine Chemicals aims at being a corporation that excels in research and development as well as in bringing out new products that meet the demands and requirements of the age now dawning.
In our DMSO Business, the Company supplies high quality products for the electronic materials market. Also, it is promoting, in joint development with customers, new application for reaction solvents.
The Specialty Chemical Business, in addition to contact-based production, is expanding into specialty chemicals including Grignard reaction products, thiochemical products, and information technology related materials.
The Polysulfid Polymers and Specialty Polymers Business aim to enter new markets by using polymerization technologies for Polysulfid Polymer and Specialty Polymers as well as analyzing and evaluation technologies.
The High Performance Materials Business produces proprietary materials such as electret nonwoven fabrics of ultra fine fibers, cellulose sponges and fluorocarbon fibers, and also develops processed products.

Technologies

Specialty Chemicals

• Acylation, Michael addition, decarbonation, etc
• Grignard reaction
• Diels-Alder reaction
• Thio-chemical reaction
• Coupling reaction
• Silicon-containing Derivatives synthesis
• Photo-reaction
• Oxdaition reaction(DMSO, NaCIO, NHO3)
• Reduction reavtion(H2, NaBH4, BH3, etc)
• Vapor phase reaction
• Optical resolution
• Racemization
• Asymmetric(reduction, ring-opening, addition)

Specialty Polymers

• Production technology of acrylic polymer
  　Co-polymerization
  　Emulsion polymerization
  　Polymer modification
• Production technology of polysulfide polymer
  　Polymerization of polysulfide
  　Polysulfide polymer modification
  　Sealant technology
• Production technology of siloxane polymer
  　Siloxane polymerization
  　Polymerization control technology
• Polymer disintegration

High performance Materials

• Fluorocarbon fiber spinning(wet, melt)
• Electret processing

Dispersion Technology

• Specialty paste production
• Pigment dispersion
• Nano-particle dispersion

Other Technology

• Metal reduction
• Cleanliness technology
• Particle elimination

Analytical Instruments

Chemical Analysis

• Atomic absorption spectrometer
• Inductively coupled plasma - atomic emission spectroscopy
• Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer
• Ion chromatograph
• High performance liquid chromaygraph
• Gas chromatgraph
• Gas chromatgraph mass spectrometer
• Headspace
  gas chromatography mass spectrometer
• Gel permeation chromatgraph
• Ultraviolet and visible spectrophotometer
• Fourier transform infrared spectrophtometer
• Karl-Fischer moisture titrator
• Potentiometric automatic titrator
• Nuclear resonance spectroscope

Structure Analysis/Physical Evaluation

• Thermogravimetric analysis
• Melting point apparatus
• Scanning electron microscope
• Digital microscope
• Colorimeter
• Glossmeter
• Refractometer
• X-ray diffraction spectrometer
• Autograph
• Viscoelasticity meter
• Conductivity meter
• Xenon weather meter
• Sunshine carbon-arc weather meter
• Metal-halide weather meter
• QUV accelerated weathering tester
• Neutral salt spray tester
• Particle-size analyzer
• Polarimeter

Traial Manufacturing Facilities

• Glass lined reactor
• SUS reactor
• Hydrogen reduction reactor
• Glass lined distillator
• SUS distillator
• Glass lined thin film distillator
• SUS molecular distillator
• Centrifuge
• Vacuum drier
• Vapor phase reactor
• Polymerization reactor
• Polymer modification reactor