Toyobo Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 1882 as a textile company, when it began its spinning and textile business. We continued to adapt to the changing needs of the times, drawing on our core technologies in polymerization, modification, processing and biotechnology to expand our business fields and develop the kind of high-performance products. The company has overcome the crisis of deteriorating performance stemming from the global recession, and is seeking to regain growth. Over the past year our earnings capacity has steadily recovered, and now we are shifting our priority to achieving growth.