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CARBON FIBER

BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2018
Toray to buy Dutch carbon-fiber maker TenCate Advanced Composites for €930 million
Toray Industries Inc. said Thursday it will buy Dutch carbon-fiber-maker TenCate Advanced Composites Holdings BV for €930 million ($1.15 billion) in its largest ever acquisition to expand its aircraft applications business.
BUSINESS
Mar 8, 2017
Three arrested for unauthorized export to China of carbon fiber making equipment
Three men were arrested Wednesday for allegedly exporting equipment for making carbon fiber to China without government permission, police sources said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 10, 2017
Mitsubishi Chemical to acquire U.S. carbon fiber plant from German firm
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp. said Tuesday that it will acquire a U.S. carbon fiber plant from a German carbon-based product maker to meet growing demand for materials used in making automobiles and wind generators.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ADVANCES IN PROGRESS
Apr 11, 2016
Japan pins tech hopes on game-changing nanofiber
Carbon fiber may often be dubbed the next-generation material, but it's another product — cellulose nanofiber — that is increasingly attracting attention among manufacturers.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 26, 2015
Three arrested over carbon fiber shipment to military-linked China firm
Police arrested three individuals, including the head of a trading company, on Tuesday, on suspicion that they unlawfully exported to a Chinese firm a carbon fiber material that can be diverted to military use.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2014
Toray wins ¥1 trillion carbon fiber order from Boeing, sources say
Toray Industries Inc. is set to seal a ¥1 trillion deal to supply carbon fiber for Boeing Co. jets and will spend around ¥100 billion to build a new U.S. plant to produce the material, sources said Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 10, 2014
GM-supplier Teijin targets mass-produced carbon fiber cars
A quarter of all "eco cars" will use carbon fiber within six years as automakers ranging from General Motors to Toyota turn to lighter materials to improve fuel economy, an Osaka-based supplier says.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2014
Japanese carbon fiber bound for Iran seized: U.N. report
An Iran-bound ship from China intercepted in 2012 was carrying carbon fiber made by Toray Industries and likely earmarked for Iran's nuclear program.

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