Toray Industries, Inc., a major textile manufacturer, announced that its ISO certification, which is an international standard for quality control, has been revoked for factories in Nagoya and Chiba prefectures that had been fraudulently inspected for resin products.
Toray is a resin product used in home appliances and automobiles, and it is fraudulent to submit a sample product different from the product and pretend to meet the standards when inspecting to obtain certification from a third-party organization regarding incombustibility. Was going.
According to the company's announcement, in response to this problem, as a result of being examined by an ISO registered certification body, there was a problem with the production system at the factories in Nagoya City and Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, where fraud was carried out during the inspection. If so, it means that the "ISO9001" certification was revoked on the 12th.
In addition, the factory in Nagoya City has received measures to suspend ISO certification for products that are raw materials such as textiles and plastics.
Toray says that it will continue to operate the two factories, saying that some customers do not require ISO certification. We will do our utmost to restore trust. "