On October 9, Teijin announced that the company’s carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic woven fabric (ThermoPlastic Woven Fabric, abbreviated as TPWF) and ThermoPlastic Consolidated Laminate (abbreviated as TPCL) have won the world`s leading manufacturer of aircraft structural components. One-Collins Aerospace (Collins Aerospace) certification.
Tenax®TPWF is a woven carbon fiber fabric coated with a thermoplastic polymer. Tenax®TPCL is a combination of multiple layers of Tenax®TPWF that are fully impregnated and cured. Qualified products are based on high-strength carbon fiber braid and polyether ether ketone (PEEK) polymer, which have high heat resistance, impact resistance and fatigue resistance, which can help reduce production costs and improve component manufacturing efficiency, thanks to the rapid The potential of the molding process. This material is suitable for mass production of parts with high mechanical properties, such as aerospace structural parts.
Teijin has a close business relationship with Collins Airlines. The company’s core carbon fiber business in the United States, Teijin Carbon America (Inc.), was awarded a supplier gold medal at a factory, becoming the world’s only fiber manufacturer of oxidized polyacrylonitrile (OPF) Pyromex®, which supplies aircraft brake friction materials. Quotient.
As one of the company`s strategic priorities for the mid-term management plan for 2020-2022, Teijin of Japan is vigorously accelerating the development of mid- and downstream aircraft applications, such as cost-effective carbon fiber with higher toughness and higher tensile modulus, including Tenax® dry-reinforced carbon fiber Materials Tenax®TPWF, Tenax®TPCL (Tenax®DR), carbon fiber thermoplastic unidirectional fiber and other intermediate material prepreg tapes (Tenax®TPUD), carbon fiber thermoplastic consolidated laminate (Tenax®TPCL) and thermosetting prepreg.
Looking to the future, Teijin plans to further strengthen its carbon fiber and intermediate materials business as a leading solution provider in the aircraft application field. It is estimated that by 2030, the annual sales in this field will exceed 900 million US dollars.