History of Toray Engineering
- 1960 - 1980
- 1981 - 2000
- 2001 - 2010
- 2011 - Current
1960 - 1980
1960
August
Founded Toyo Construction Co., Ltd.
Constructed and moved head office building (in front of the north gate of Shiga Plant of Toray Industries, Inc.)
1962
August
Constructed an oxygen filling plant outside Mishima Plant of Toray Industries, Inc.
November
Renamed Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.
Company emblem
Company emblem
1964
March
Started production of nozzle for film manufacturing equipment
Test equipment for control valves
1970
February
Created and constructed the Big Roof of Festival Plaza at Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970, Expo '70 held in Osaka.
Completed Big Roof of Festival Plaza at Expo '70
Completion of the construction of the Big Roof at Expo '70
Completed Big Roof of Festival Plaza at Expo '70
Completion of the construction of the Big Roof at Expo '70
1973
September Established Toyo Construction Co., Ltd. as a transportation and construction company for industrialized housing
1981 - 2000
1982
November Spun off construction and housing business as Toray Construction Co., Ltd.
1983
February
Inaugurated Electronic Equipment Manufacturing Plant
Water quality analyzer
Oxygen analyzer
Water quality analyzer
Oxygen analyzer
April Renamed Toyo Construction Co., Ltd. to Toyo Kiko Co., Ltd.
1984
February Established TDS Co., Ltd.
1985
January Established Santo Denso Co., Ltd.
August Established Seta Plant
1986
February Established KANTO TEK CO., LTD.
1987
Started a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant business
1988
Commercialized bonder (flip chip bonder, LED bonder)
1990
December Established TEK（Singapore）Pte. Ltd.
1991
Started a riveter (riveting equipment) business
1993
January Established Numazu Plant
Developed electrode manufacturing facility for lithium-ion batteries
1994
February Established Chubu TEK Co., Ltd.
1995
April Merged Toyo Kiko Co., Ltd. and Santo Denso Co., Ltd. to form KANSAI TEK CO., LTD.
June Established Beijing Zhong Li Chemical Fiber Machinery Co., Ltd. as a joint venture for manufacturing synthetic fiber equipment
July Established TEK (America), Inc.
1996
June Established TEK (Korea) Co., Ltd.
2000
June Made RAYTECH, Inc. a subsidiary
Launched INSPECTRA®, a wafer visual inspection system
2001 - 2010
2002
April Established TMT Machinery, Inc. as a joint venture
September Established Shanghai TEK Technology & Consulting Co., Ltd.
2003
January Transferred winding machine business to TEK (Korea) Co., Ltd.
April Transferred textile machinery business to TMT Machinery Inc.
November
Launched TORAY Slit-nozzle Coater (TS Coater), a coating system for FPD color filters
2004
July Decided to liquidate TEK (America), Inc. and TEK (Singapore) Pte.
September Transferred environmental water treatment business to Suido Kiko Kaisha, LTD.
November Started CAE software business
2005
November Transferred Nuclear Power Business Division to an outside company
2011 - Current
2013
September Decided to liquidate Beijing Zhong Li Chemical Fiber Machinery Co., Ltd.
December Established Kitakyushu TEK & FP LLC and HKK & TEK LLC.
2014
October
Started a photovoltaic power generation business
2015
October Established Toray Engineering Co., Ltd. Taiwan Branch
Opened Yokohama Satellite Laboratory
2016
September
Developed Molecutideser®, a nucleic acid medicines synthesizer
2017
June Made NGR Inc., a subsidiary
2019
July Renamed KANSAI TEK CO., LTD., Chubu TEK Co., Ltd. and KANTO TEK CO., LTD. to add "Toray" to their company names: Toray Engineering West Co., Ltd., Toray Engineering Central Co., Ltd., and Toray Engineering East Co., Ltd.
December Established TASMIT, Inc. to consolidate semiconductor inspection equipment business
2020
April Renamed TDS Co., Ltd. to Toray Engineering D Solutions Co., Ltd.
2021
December
Commercialized the RAP-LLO™ series of microLED display manufacturing equipment
2022
April TEK (Korea) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai TEK Technology & Consulting Co., Ltd. to Toray Engineering (Korea) Co., Ltd. and Toray Engineering (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
July Renamed RAYTECH, Inc. to TRENG F Products, Inc.
2023
April Established Toray Engineering Europe GmbH
- 1960 - 1980
- 1981 - 2000
- 2001 - 2010
- 2011 - Current