[...] in attendance were Richard Schloesser, President and COO of Toray Plastics (America), Inc., Mitch Adamek, Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, PepsiCo, and Paul Zmigrosky, Group Vice President, Frito-Lay North America Strategic Sourcing, World Wide Ingredients & Commodities, PepsiCo. Toray Industries offers the global community a variety of environment-friendly technologies, including reverse-osmosis membranes, which are being used to create 14 million tons of clean water everyday for 60 million people, and carbon fiber composite materials used for building aircraft that is 20 percent lighter than conventional aircraft and will use less fuel and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Richard Schloesser
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I.—Toray Plastics (America), Inc., North America’s only manufacturer of precision-performance polyester (PET) and polypropylene (PP) films, is taking a leading role in Toray Industries, Inc.’s decision to grow its packaging film business in Europe. Toray Industries, Inc., headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, will establish Toray Films Europe S.A.S, (also known as TFE), in Rhône-Alpes, France in Feb. 2008, for the production of Torayfan bi-axially oriented polypropylene high-barrier metallized film. Toray Plastics (America), Inc. will drive the development and commercialization of the new business’s Torayfan film technology and help establish TFE as a core production base in Europe. Toray Plastics (America), Inc. will then
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