Toray Industries Named One of Thomson Reuters Global Innovators

North Kingstown, RI, December 15, 2015—Toray Plastics (America), Inc., has announced that its parent company, Toray Industries, Inc., located in Tokyo, Japan, has been named one of the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators for 2015.

According to Thomson Reuters, its Top 100 Global Innovators list showcases the world's 100 most innovative organizations, which have outperformed other global companies in terms of creating jobs and wealth. To identify the top 100 companies, Thomson Reuters uses a methodology that analyzes patent and citation data across four criteria: volume, success, globalization, and influence.

Established in 1926, Toray Industries is an integrated chemical industry group that fuses nanotechnology with its operations, using organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biotechnology as its core technologies.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a manufacturer of polyester, polypropylene, bio-based, and metallized films for flexible and rigid packaging, lidding, graphic, industrial, optical, and electronic applications, and polyolefin, polypropylene, and polyethylene foams for the automotive and flooring industries.