Toyobo to set up joint venture with Nagase to produce and sell heat-resistant film with world-class dimensional stability for displays and sensors
(WorldNews Japan)

Aug 23, 2017 Toyobo Co., Ltd. will next year start manufacturing and selling XENOMAX®, a heat-resistant polyimide film whose dimensional stability is among the world`s best for this kind of film, by setting up a joint venture company with Nagase & Co., Ltd. and building a plant in Toyobo`s Tsuruga Research and Production Center in Fukui Prefecture. The product`s dimensional stability is equivalent to those of glass and silicon wafers. XENOMAX® will be produced and marketed for use in organic electroluminescence (OLED) and other flexible displays and sensors, in addition to electronic paper displays, for which manufacturers have already adopted the product as an electronic circuit substrate...