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A. Shindo of the Government Industrial
Research Institute, Osaka, made public
the carbon fiber from polyacrylonitrile.
This was the beginning of the PAN type
high-performance carbon fibers. |
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Barnebey-Cheney and National
Carbon manufactured small amount
of carbon fiber from cotton and rayon. |
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Rolls Royce in the U.K. announced a
project of using CFRP for the jet engine. |
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-Toray and Union Carbide in USA
exchanged manufacturing technologies
on carbon fibers.
-Toray was licensed the Shindo's
patent from MITI. |
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Start of manufacture and sales of PAN
based high-strength carbon fiber,
Torayca yarn T300, with the production
capacity of 12 ton/year. This was the
largest production capacity in those days |
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Use of carbon fibers to the "Ayu"
fishing rod. |
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| Use of carbon fibers to the golf shaft. |
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Aircraft Energy Efficiency program
started to cope with dramatically rising
crude oil price in USA. T300 used
for B727, B737, L1011, DC9 and DC10. |
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Export of the TORAY carbon fiber
manufacture technology to Union
Carbide of the USA. |
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-Boeing B757 and B767 and Airbus A310
using T300 in components went into
commercial service.
-Launching of the space shuttle, Columbia,
which used T300 in the cargo room door.
-Joint venture, SOFICAR, founded in
France for production of carbon fibers. |
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Carbon fiber yarn, Torayca T1000,
with the tensile strength of 7,000Mpa
was developed. |
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Torayca prepreg P2302-19, which is a
combination of high-strength
intermediate modulus yarn T800H
and toughened epoxy resin 3900-2,
qualified to Boeing material specification
BMS 8-276 for Boeing 777. |
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Toray composites (America) founded in
USA for production of prepreg for
Boeing 777, etc. |
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Application expanded to include civil
engineering repair and reinforcement
in line with alleviation of restriction
truck gross weight. |
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Toray Carbon Fibers America (CFA)
founded in the USA. |
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Airbus announced "T800S"will be
supplied for A380 aircraft program. |
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