Toray announces Torayca T1200 carbon fiber
Torayca T1200 offers an internal structure with high toughness, surpassing T1100 in tensile strength.
Photo credit: Toray
Toray Industries Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has developed Torayca T1200. The offering aims to help shrink environmental footprints by lightening carbon fiber-reinforced plastic materials. Its applications range from sporting and leisure goods to aircraft.
Demand for high-strength carbon fibers has risen, necessitating a response from Toray. The company accordingly set about refining its nanoscale structural control technology to design and achieve an internal structure with high toughness.
Applying the technology led Toray to create Torayca T1200, with a tensile strength of 8.0 GPa (which is around 100 kilogram force/mm2). This is more than 10% higher than the figure of 7.0 for Torayca T1100. The latter has the highest tensile strength offered by Toray. Its diverse applications include golf shafts, bicycle accessories, fishing rods and other sports equipment, leisure equipment, motorsports, and aviation and space.
Toray began selling carbon fibers in 1971. It has supplied Torayca for applications such as compressed natural gas and high-pressure hydrogen tanks, automobiles, aircraft and sporting equipment.
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