Toray Plastics America to Lead Expansion in Europe

Toray Industries expects to invest about $100 million in the project. Construction of the new manufacturing facility, which will include metallization capabilities, will begin this year at the same site as Toray Plastics Europe S.A., also known as TPEu. TPEu is the company’s polyester film manufacturing base in France. Operations are anticipated to start in April, 2010. Annual BOPP film capacity is projected to be 20,000 tons. Metallization production is projected to be 22,000 tons.