A view of the newly built Korea Toray R&D Center in Magok, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. (Photos: TAK)

KTG Chairman Lee Young-kwan.

Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK) has relocated its headquarters to the newly built Korea Toray R&D Center in Magok, Gangseo-gu, Seoul.

Subsidiary companies of Korea Toray Group (KTG), including TAK Information Systems and Advanced Materials Research Center have also moved into the Korea Toray R&D Center.

The R&D center, dedicated one year after it was launched last October, is an eight-story structure consisting of a research labor, a pilot experiment quarters, and an quarters consisting of offices.

Advanced Materials Research Center, separated from other subsidiaries in the past, has joined in the relocation, thus establishing a close cooperative regime like the speeding of joint development of future technologies and large-scale themes with customer companies.

The group plans to promote exchanges with companies, research institutes and universities to ramp up synergetic effects. The new HQ building has flexible office space to promote collaboration. The group also offers flexible research space to enable creative research.

TAK Participates in JEC Asia 2019

Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK)’s Composite Materials Business Division participated at the JEC Asia 2019 event held at COEX from Nov. 13 to 14.

In its 3rd edition, JEC Asia returned to Seoul, gathering companies from the entire composites value chain to showcase the latest capabilities and innovations to the strategic end-users market, such as automotive, aeronautics, renewable energies, building & construction, electrical & electronic equipment (EEE) as well as sports & leisure.

JEC Asia 2019 brought together 450 corporate exhibitors and about 7,000 spectators.

TAK showcased the world’s top-tier carbon products and application items the company has produced based on long-standing research and excellent technology power.

In particular, items primed for the ushering in of an age of hydrogen, an essential part of the future industry, had a good reception from many companies, universities and research institutes.

VIPs, including Jeollabuk-do Gov. Song Ha-jin, toured TAK’s pavilion and received a briefing from Tal’s top technology power on carbon textiles. TAK won the innovation award in the sports and leisure category at JEC Innovation Awards ceremony.

CTO Im Hee-suk received the award trophy. JEC Innovation Awards were presented to top innovative companies and institutions in 10 categories in the integrated materials sector.

The expanding of the EV and hydrogen industry markets has been shifting into lighter items employing carbon textile composite materials, a TAK official said.

KTG Chmn. Lee’s Lecture on ‘Innovative DNA of Toray’

KTG Chairman Lee Young-kwan gave a lecture, titled “Innovative DNA of Toray, Global Leading Materials Company,” targeting textile department faculty at Seoul National University, graduate school students and undergraduate students on Nov. 7.

Chairman Lee introduced steps to strengthen the competitiveness of the parts and materials business, Toray Industries in Japan, KTG, and the success story of TAK.

Tales on future businesses using innovative materials like carbon textiles, strategies to globalize the non-woven fabric business, and KTG’s social contribution activities got a resounding response from the participating students.

As to the success of TAK, Chairman Lee cited close collaboration between Korea and Japan and the establishment of a mid- and long-term vision as well as swift execution of strategies.

He also expressed his group’s determination to proactively participate in efforts to solve environment issues and contributing to humanity so that the group can fulfill its corporate social responsibilities.