Japanese firm keen on investing in Ha Nam

Shinri Sato, Director of the Suido Kiko Khaisha Company, made a fact-finding tour to the northern province of Ha Nam on April 16 to explore investment opportunities in the locality.
Shinri Sato, Director of the Suido Kiko Khaisha Company, made afact-finding tour to the northern province of Ha Nam on April 16 toexplore investment opportunities in the locality.

According to Sato, the Toray Group – a leading interdisciplinaryJapanese collective of which his company is a member - currently has 30subsidiaries in Japan and 60 others abroad, but none of them haveoperated any project in Vietnam .

As Ha Nam hasoffered attractive policies and incentives, the firm hopes to be thefirst to start projects Ha Nam and wider Vietnam , he said.

Sato noted that the chairman of the Toray Group is also in charge ofthe Japanese Business Federation (Keidaren), and as such the group canhelp Ha Nam foster cooperation with many Japanese enterprises andlocalities.

Chairman of the Ha Nam People’sCommittee Mai Tien Dung pledged that the province is ready to supportJapanese investment projects.

Ha Nam hasdesigned and strictly implemented 10 commitments to foreign investors,including supplying an adequate infrastructure system, human resources,healthcare services and a hotline between enterprises and the localgovernment, he said.

Dung said he hopes Toray’s projects in Ha Nam will help the province update technological advances.

The same day, Sato also visited a number of Japanese operatingenterprises in Ha Nam to find out more on the investment attractionpolicies of the locality.

Toray Group specialises inproducing fibre and textile products, plastics, chemicals and compositematerials. It is currently the supplier of carbon fibre materials forBoeing’s new 787 Dreamliner aircraft.-VNA

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