High performance yarns offer consumers comfort, convenience, and safety. Asahi Kasei Corporation's Roica spandex yarns offer chlorine resistance, high elongation, setability, moisture absorption, and deodorizing properties. Kurabo Industries Limited's Spinair yarn with a hollow core and cotton sheath imparts a soft hand to flat and circular knit fabrics, jeanswear, hosiery, and underwear. Its Suntouch yarns feature deodorizing, antibacterial, and organic decomposition properties. Sharade polyester/cotton blend yarns offer water absorbing and wash and wear properties. Softspin acrylic yarns with a hollow core impart a soft hand and bulk to fabrics. Kuraray Company Limited's Shine Up-P polyester bicomponent filament yarn imparts deodorizing properties via chemical neutralizing reactions. The company's Clacarbo, Esmo, Sophista, and Plastarch yarns feature antistatic, ultraviolet light absorbing, perspiration absorbing, and biodegradability properties, respectively. Nitto Boseki increased the number of spindles for core spun yarns at its Niigata plant to 40,000. Tokati Senko markets its Japan Quality products according to function, feel, dyeing technology, and surface finish.