Society increasingly looks to technological progress to support increased comfort and safety. That expectation applies to the IT systems used to transmit massive amounts of information, to the so-called green transport and energy systems that we rely on to minimize environmental impact and to the medical diagnostic systems that we depend on for the early discovery of debilitating and life-threatening diseases.

To fulfill that expectation, makers such as Tosoh of the chemical and other materials used in advanced technologies will need to impart to those materials ever-superior functionality and reliability. At Tosoh Group, over 900 researchers join their experience and knowledge with that of leading-edge research institutions and of the academic community in the quest for progress. The Tosoh Group invested over ¥13 billion in R&D in fiscal 2007.  Here we invite you to see all the ways that Tosoh R&D is contributing to society.