Toray doubles capacity in Indonesia

Toray Industries is to add another spunbond polypropylene line at its subsidiary Toray Polytech Jakarta (TPJ) in Indonesia, as demand for absorbent hygiene products shows no sign of abating in the ASEAN region. 

The line, with an annual capacity of 18,000 tons, is scheduled to start operating in September 2016.

It will give TPJ a total annual capacity of 37,000 tons and see the Toray Group’s worldwide capacity for spunbond climb to 153,000 tons. 

Toray is predicting that the demand for PP spunbond in ASEAN will grow to 660,000 tons per year in 2016 from 493,000 tons in 2013 and to 936,000 tons in 2020.

In response to this robust demand, Toray Group has been expanding the production capacities of its production bases in Korea, China and Indonesia in advance.

In June 2013, TPJ’s first facility started operations, and the group’s production base in China, Toray Polytech (Nantong), will start operation of a new production line later this month.