Japan’s Toray Industries today announced that it has succeeded in the development of high tensile strength and modulus carbon fibre - realizing both in carbon fibre had been considered to be technically difficult to achieve.  TORAYCA T1100G and high-performance prepreg (resin-impregnated carbon fibre sheets) using TORAYCA T1100G are aimed at high-end applications such as aerospace.

Toray says that applications for carbon fibre have been rapidly expanding in aerospace, industry and sport fields, because of the high specific strength and tensile modulus as well as the high reliability derived from superior fatigue properties and high environmental durability. At the same time, further improvement in performance of carbon fibres has been expected especially in high-end applications.

“With the newly developed TORAYCA T1100G, Toray succeeded in enabling both high strength and high modulus, which was thought to be technically difficult, by employing carbonization technology to precisely control fibre structure at the nano-level, and significantly improved the performance of the carbon fibre in comparison with Toray’s existing products such as TORAYCA T1000G and T800S, which are widely used in high-end applications led by the aerospace field,” Toray said in a statement today.

Toray has also developed matrix resin technology that improves both tensile strength and impact resistance in prepreg and the company intends to achieve the utmost performance  required in fields such as aerospace structures and high-end sporting goods by combining this technology with TORAYCA T1100G.

Toray positions its carbon fibre composite materials business as a Strategically Expanding Business and has been actively allocating management resources to the field to drive forward business expansion and research and technology development. Under its new medium-term management program ‘Project AP-G 2016’ formulated and announced in February 2014, Toray will accelerate its business expansion as the world’s No. 1 carbon fibre manufacturer in accordance with the basic concept of the long-term corporate vision ‘AP-Growth TORAY 2020’.

Toray says it will go forward with efforts to develop new products by further improving performance of TORAYCA and TORAYCA prepreg and the processability. Through these efforts, the company aims to promote energy savings by reducing the weight of aircraft and cars and make contributions to propagate new energy by applying the materials for wind power generator turbines and natural gas pressure vessels for storage and transportation of shale gas, and ultimately to ‘innovate the society with the power of materials’.