Nanotechnology : Chuo-ku

Toray Industries, Inc.

Benj — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:45:48 +0000

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http://www.toray.co.jp/

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Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, 1-1, Nihonbashi-Muromachi 2-chome

Zip or postal code

103-8666

Telephone

+81-3-3245-5111

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+81-3-3245-5555

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Ceo, president

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The newly established research laboratories will place emphasis on 1) strengthening research activities by concentrating on biotechnology- and nanotechnology- related projects, 2) inviting top researchers in the fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology at home and abroad and 3) cementing relationships with universities and organizations worldwide.

The three-storied building occupies a site of approximately 3,200m2 with total floor space of 8,000 m2. About 50 researchers and staff have been hired, with plans to increase the number of researchers to 100 in the near future.

Dr. Koichi Suzuki, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, was appointed director of New Frontiers Research Laboratories on April 1, 2003. He joined Toray on April 1 after completing his tenures at the University of Tokyo (director of Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (director of the Institute).

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Sumitomo Corporation

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:59:17 +0000

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http://www.sumitomocorp.co.jp/

Contact Email

info@sumitomocorp.co.jp

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Street address

Harumi Island Triton Square Office Tower Y, 8-11 Harumi 1-chome

Zip or postal code

104-8610

Telephone

+81-3-5166-5000

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Ceo, president

Motoyuki Oka

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Our business strategy targeting a risk-adjusted return ratio of 7.5% is comprised of two basic elements. Each of the nine Business Units will build a strong, broadly-based business portfolio, selecting promising business lines and concentrating resources in them. At the same time, management will allocate resources to strategic business areas and regions from the perspective of the whole Group.
Under the AA Plan, each Business Unit will expand businesses that leverage our integrated corporate strength by promoting strategic alliances, developing multifaceted businesses with partners, expanding logistics activities, and utilizing our financing capabilities. We will put management resources in strategic areas such as media and information, supermarkets, and mineral resource development businesses.
In addition, we will commit ourselves to identifying and commercializing new technologies to further extend our business frontier, focusing on medicine and biotechnology, nanotechnology, clean energy, and network-related information technologies.
Geographically, China will be positioned as our chief strategic region both as a production base and an expanding market. In China, we are focusing on building our own logistics networks and partnering with leading local firms in order to develop globally-based businesses there.
We will also focus on Russia as a promising market, with its macroeconomic growth stabilizing and its business infrastructure rapidly developing. We are promoting businesses in line with Russia's potential as a major supplier of natural resources, and its demands for industrial facility replacement and social infrastructure development in areas such as telecommunications services.
In the Middle East, we will devote ourselves to projects mainly in water- and energyrelated areas in response to the immediate need to redevelop industrial infrastructures as populations grow and get younger, urbanization advances and consumer markets expand.
In Iraq, we hope to help stabilize the lives of the people there. We have set up a company-wide task force not only to consider reconstruction-related businesses but also to discuss building close and broad relationships with the country after its recovery.

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SII NanoTechnology, Inc.

Benj — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:45:54 +0000

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Web url

http://www.siint.com/en/

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RBM Tsukiji Bldg.Shintomi 2-15-5

Zip or postal code

104-0041

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Ceo, president

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SII NanoTechnology Inc was founded when Seiko Instruments Inc Scientific Instruments Division, which has been at the world's forefront in offering high grade, advanced analysis and measurement instruments spun off. Nanotechnology, a technology that controls atoms and molecules, has traditionally been nurtured for use in research support instruments, but it is now a technology essential for manufacturing. We will continue to develop nanotechnology even further, and we will contribute to advancement of science and technology and the global community by bringing advanced instruments that lead the world in the 21st Century.