Nitto Boseki: Placing importance on increasing types of "C*S*Y"

Nitto Boseki Co., Ltd. has been marketing core-- spun yarn "C*S*Y". Hirohiko Morimoto, General Manager of the Yarn & Textiles Sales Department says that the demand and supply are respectively balanced only in Europe, the U.S. and Japan. Because production will continue to increase in China, the state of excessive supply will continue worldwide.

Nitto Boseki has 40,000 spindles of "C*S*Y" production equipment in its Niigata Mill, Japan and 6,000 spindles in a subcontractor factory in Indonesia. Nitto Boseki markets 50% of "C*S*Y" in yarn and the remaining 50% is in fabrics. Morimoto says that it is important to produce many variations in spandex business instead of simply …