Toray admits unit falsified product data

TOKYO: A subsidiary of world’s top carbon- fiber supplier Toray In company said Tuesday, making it become embroiled in quality control problems.

Toray Hybrid Cord had discovered 149 cases of falsifying data between 2008 and 2016, the parent said, but added it had so far found no safety concerns or breach of any laws and regulations.

- ments to 13 companies including tyremakers and auto parts makers, “we have unfairly re-written some of data” for products including cords for industrial use, it said in a statement.

“We deeply apologize for causing troubles and concerns,” Toray president Akihiro Nikkaku told reporters with a deep bow, a gesture commonly seen in news conferences of scandalhit Japanese companies.

The news comes after some of lapses in quality control.

strength and quality data for a string of products shipped to hundreds of clients, from automakers to plane manufacturers.

Nissan recalled 1.2 million vehicles after admitting in October that staff without proper authori - tions on some vehicles intended for the domestic market before they were shipped to dealers.

Subaru also called back nearly 400,000 vehicles from its domestic market after admitting that it also vehicle inspections.

And last week Mitsubishi Material data, sending its shares plunging more than eight percent.

Toray, which supplies key parts to US aerospace titan Boeing and Fast Retailing, the operator of Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo, said it has not detected data falsifying problems with its main