Toray Nylon Powder for Cosmetics

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Toray Nylon Powder for
Cosmetics
2007
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Outline of The Company Financial Highlights

• Founded January 1926
• Capital Stock \ 96,937 million
• 197 subsidiaries and affiliated companies in 20
• countries and area around the world
• Numbers of Employees 34,670 (As of March 31,
  2006)
• Financial highlights (Fiscal Year 2005 /
  Consolidated )
  
  (Millions of yen)
• Net sales \ 1,427,488
• Operating income \ 93,043

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Net Sales Structure Comparison by Division (
Fiscal Year 2005 / Consolidated)
Pharmaceuticals Medical Products
Carbon Fiber Composites
Fibers Textiles
Environment Housing
IT-Related Products
Plastics Chemicals
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Torays Major Products

• Fibers Textiles
• Polyamide Fiber, Polyester Fiber, Acrylic
  Fiber
• Artificial Suede, Silky-touch Polyester
  Filament, etc
• Plastics Chemicals
• Resins (ABS, PA6, PA66, PBT, PPS, LCP, POM),
  PO Foams, Films (PET, PP, PPS)
• IT-Related Products
• Color Filters for LCD, Materials for PDP, etc
  
• Environment Engineering
• Home Water Purifiers, Reverse Osmosis Membranes
  and Systems, etc
• Pharmaceuticals Medical Products
• Natural Interferon, Prostacylin, etc
• Carbon Fibers Composites

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Torays Global Activities of Plastics Business
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Torays Nylon Powder Business

• Launched nylon powder business in 1975.
• First manufacturer of real spherical nylon
  powder in the world.
• Nylon powder line-up
• SP-500 particle size 5µm
• SP-10 particle size 10µm
• Selling powders in JAPAN, USA, EU, KOREA and
  CHINA with total
• sales of 6 million.
• Still a challenger continuing development of
  new powders, one of
• which is spherical porous nylon 6 powder
  TR-1.

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• Torays Nylon Powder Line-up

Electron Micrographs of SP Series
SP-500
SP-10
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• Torays Nylon Powder Line-up

Electron Micrographs of SP-500 and SP-10
SP-500
SP-500
enlarged
SP-10
SP-10
enlarged
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• Torays Nylon Powder Line-up

Comparison of Particle Shape
TORAY SP
TORAY SP
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Competitor
Competitor
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Toray is the First manufacturer of real
spherical Nylon powder !
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Quality Specification of SP
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Torays New Powder TR-1
Torays expertise in polymer chemistry has led to
development of New Nylon 6 Powder TR-1 .
Characteristics (1) Spherical (2)
Porous (3) Narrow Particle Size
Distribution (4) Large Surface Area
(5) High Oil Absorption (6) Hydrophilic
(Dispersible in water) (7) Stable in Shape
under Various Circumstances (8) Easy
Modification or Hybridization
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Sphericity Porosity
Excellent Spherical Porous Shape of TR-1
Not spherical Potato-like
Spherical
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Electron Micrographs of TR-1
TR-1
TR-1
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Narrow Particle Size Distribution
Particle Size Distribution of TR-1
Competitors Nylon 6 powder
TR-1
Narrow Mono-modal
Accumulation ()
Accumulation ()
Frequency ()
Frequency ()
Particle Diameter (µm)
Particle Diameter (µm)
SDEV 4.1µm
SDEV 5.9µm
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Surface Area, Oil Absorption
Surface Area and Oil Absorption of TR-1
1 Linseed oil was added drop-wise to nylon
powders and mixed. The oil absorption
is an amount of linseed oil that the mixture
changed to a paste that can make a spiral
shape like ice-cream cone.
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Hydrophilicity/Water Dispersion
Excellent Water Dispersion of TR-1
TR-1 can disperse in water because of
hydrophilicity.
TR-1 is probably useful for o/w liquid foundation.
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Quality Specification of TR-1
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Trial Products under Development (1)
Now we are developing coated TR-1 because TR-1
has
easy modification property.
In case of Titanium,
Cohesion
solution
High Level Tio2 Coated TR-1
Not good feeling
SPF
We are now cooperating with TAYCA,
developing New Titanium coated TR-1.
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Trial Products under Development (2)
Hydrophilic Tio2 40 Coated TR-1
SPF49 UVA Ratio0.60 PA ClassPA
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Trial Products under Development (3)
Non-Hydrophilic Tio2 50 Coated TR-1
SPF67 UVA Ratio0.59 PA ClassPA
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Trial Products under Development (4)
In case of BN
solution
BN 20 Coated TR-1
Mirror Reflection
Diffused Reflection