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Teijin Frontier’s Thai Subsidiary Launch New Facilityfor Producing Recycled Polyester Chips
Tokyo, Japan, October 18, 2021 --- Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., the Teijin Group’s fibers andproducts converting company, announced today that its core base for polyester fiber
manufacturing, Teijin Polyester (Thailand) Limited (TPL), will launch a facility to convert
used domestically-produced plastic bottles into recycled polyester chips for the productionof high-quality polyester filament. The facility will start operating in January 2022 and is
expected produce 7,000 tons of recycled polyester chips annually by fiscal 2025.

Teijin Polyester (Thailand) Limited

Recycled polyester chips

Teijin Frontier will install cleaning equipment and the latest repelletizing machine forremoving foreign substances from the recycled PET bottles before they are molded intochips. TPL will use Teijin Frontier’s proprietary quality-control technologies in its
comprehensive system for turning Thai plastic bottles into recycled polyester chips for theproduction of polyester filament. The raw yarn produced at TPL will be used in Teijin
Frontier’s ECOPET® recycled filament yarn.
Products made with recycled materials have been growing in recent years due toincreasing environmental awareness. In addition, the demand for recycled polyester
filaments as well as staple polyester fibers has increased significantly. To date, Teijin
Frontier has been procuring recycled raw materials to meet these growing demands. In
the interim, the company has been seeking recycled-polyester raw material suppliers that
could help the company both to eliminate high-impact long-distance transportation and tooptimize its resource-cycling operations. Despite its best efforts, however, the company
eventually determined that it would not be possible to secure stable, high-quality bottle
flakes in the vicinity of Thailand, where Teijin Frontier’s main plants are located.

Teijin Frontier, guided by its THINK ECO® environmental initiative, is striving to improve its
environmental value, including by developing environmentally friendly materials andproducts for applications ranging from clothing to industrial materials. Going forward, Teijin
Frontier will continue to promote the recycling of used PET bottles in Thailand, where thecompany has been operating for more than 50 years, ultimately to help realize a moresustainable world.
About the Teijin Group
Teijin (TSE: 3401) is a technology-driven global group offering advanced solutions in thefields of environmental value; safety, security and disaster mitigation; and demographic
change and increased health consciousness. Originally established as Japan's first rayon
manufacturer in 1918, Teijin has evolved into a unique enterprise encompassing threecore business domains: high-performance materials including aramid, carbon fibers andcomposites, and also resin and plastic processing, films, polyester fibers and products
converting; healthcare including pharmaceuticals and home healthcare equipment forbone/joint, respiratory and cardiovascular/metabolic diseases, nursing care andpre-symptomatic healthcare; and IT including B2B solutions for medical, corporate andpublic systems as well as packaged software and B2C online services for digitalentertainment. Deeply committed to its stakeholders, as expressed in the brand statement“Human Chemistry, Human Solutions,” Teijin aims to be a company that supports thesociety of the future. The group comprises more than 170 companies and employs some
20,000 people across 20 countries worldwide. Teijin posted consolidated sales of JPY
836.5 billion (USD 7.7 billion) and total assets of JPY 1,036.4 billion (USD 9.5 billion) in thefiscal year that ended on March 31, 2021.
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