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Jan 29, 2014
Toray Textiles Central Europe s.r.o.
Toray Textiles Central Europe Inaugurates Czech Plate Plant

On January 29, TTCE, based in Prostĕjov of Czech Republic, held the inauguration ceremony of its integrated production line for waterless printing plates. We invited President Akihiro Nikkaku, Executive Vice President Junichi Fujikawa, Senior Vice President Hiroshi Murakami and Vice President Hirofumi Kobayashi from Toray Industries, Inc. for the ceremony, which was also attended by the Japanese Ambassador to the Czech Republic His Excellency Tetsuo Yamakawa, the country's Ministry of Industry and Trade Deputy Minister Milan Hovorka, Olomouc Region Governor Jiří Rozbořil, Prostĕjov Mayor Miroslav Pišťák and other senior officials of local authorities.

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From left: TTCE President Shozo Sugaya, President Nikkaku, Ambassador Yamakawa, Deputy Minister Hovorka, Governor Rozbořil and Mayor Pišťák.

The guests, along with offering congratulations, expressed their appreciation of TTCE's investment record in the country. They were given a tour of not only the integrated waterless printing plate plant, but also the existing textile plant. The Japanese ambassador and the deputy minister, in particular, had high praise for the Toray Group's sophisticated technologies and well-organized production sites. Ahead of the ceremony, President Nikkaku delivered a lecture to TTCE's local staff members. He also visited the waterless printing plate integrated plant, which started production in 2013, and the airbag business's coating line to be introduced in 2014. Through the inauguration ceremony, all the TTCE employees strongly felt the expectations from parent Toray as well as the local community and pledged to continue making efforts for further development.

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Left: Tour of the waterless printing plate plant. Right: TTCE staff members meeting with Nikkaku