Established in 1941, Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd. is known worldwide as an innovator in the carbon and graphite industry. The company originated as a manufacturer of electric carbon brushes. Through the years it grew, always adding new products and processes. Toyo Tanso is recognized as the first Japanese company to utilize cold isostatic pressing technology to produce isotropic graphic products. Today the company operates a global network which provides its customers with a wide range of high-precision products including carbon and graphite components that range in size from large furnace assemblies to miniture mechanical assemblies and mechanical seals.