Why Did Toray Become The World's Number One Carbon Fiber Manufacturer?

Carbon fiber has excellent properties such as high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance and friction resistance, and plays an important role in automobile, aircraft and other industrial fields. Japan's carbon fiber industry leads the world, and giants such as Japan's Toray, Toho, and Mitsubishi Rayon basically monopolize the global carbon fiber technology. Among them, Toray occupies 30 percent of the global carbon fiber market, and its position is very important.
   

At the end of the 19th century, carbon fiber entered people's field of vision. Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan invented the electric light by burning kapok and bamboo to make carbon fiber as a filament. But with the advent of tungsten filament, carbon fiber faded out of sight.



In the 1950s, the United States looked for a kind of ablation-resistant material for the space shuttle, and carbon fiber with high temperature resistance and high strength entered people's field of vision again. The United Carbide Corporation of the United States began to use viscose filaments as a precursor to produce carbon fibers.



Tib lub sijhawm, Akio Kondo ntawm Osaka Lub Tsev Haujlwm Kev Lag Luam hauv Nyij Pooj tseem tab tom tshawb fawb txog carbon fiber. Akio Kondo siv polyacrylonitrile (PAN) ua ntej ua cov pa roj carbon fibers. Cov txiaj ntsig tau pom tias lub zog thiab cov qauv ntawm cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau tsim los ntawm PAN precursors ntau dua li cov viscose-raws li cov. Xyoo 1959, Akio Kondo tau thov rau patent ntawm cov txiaj ntsig kev tshawb fawb ntawm carbon fiber. Tom qab ntawd, nws tau tso cai thev naus laus zis rau Toray Corporation ntawm Nyiv.



Vim lub zog siab thiab lub teeb yuag ntawm cov roj carbon fiber ntau, qhov chaw ua lag luam tseem ceeb nyob rau theem pib yeej ib txwm yog aviation teb. Txawm li cas los xij, cov tuam txhab carbon fiber ntau hauv Tebchaws Europe thiab Tebchaws Meskas twb tau nyob hauv kev lag luam aviation. Tebchaws Asmeskas xa tawm ntau cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau, thiab yuav luag tsis muaj chaw rau cov tuam txhab Nyij Pooj kom tau txais kev tuav pov hwm.



Just when everyone's eyes are on the US aviation industry and the military market, the carbon fiber of Japanese companies is aimed at the sports and leisure products market.



Xyoo 1972, Vlad los ntawm Tebchaws Meskas tau tshawb pom tias siv cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau tuaj yeem ntaus pob golf 30 yards ntau dua li cov hlau. Cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau tau nrov nrog cov neeg ntaus golf hauv Nyij Pooj, thiab daim ntawv thov cov pa roj carbon fiber tau nthuav dav sai rau cov ntaus pob tesniv, ski ncej thiab lwm yam khoom ua si.



Toray pib los ntawm kev tsim cov khoom siv hluavtaws, suav nrog PAN precursors rau carbon fiber ntau lawm. Nyob rau xyoo 1960, Toray pib kawm txog cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau tom qab tau txais cov cuab yeej patented ntawm Akio Kondo, thiab tsim ib lub tshuab tsav me me hauv xyoo 1971, uas tau ua tiav cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau Toraca T300 xyoo ntawd.



In 1974 the Toraca Marketing Department was established. Toray's first carbon fiber product was a fishing rod. The success in the sporting goods market brought the explosion of Toray's carbon fiber business, and Toray's market share began to expand.



Txawm hais tias muaj kev lag luam xav tau rau nuv ntses lossis ntaus golf, Toray yeej tsis tau txais txiaj ntsig. Toray tau siv nyiaj ntau dua 140 billion yen rau kev tshawb fawb thiab kev loj hlob hauv kev lag luam carbon fiber, thiab nws ib txwm nyob hauv lub xeev poob.



Qhov tseeb, DuPont hauv Tebchaws Meskas thiab BASF hauv tebchaws Yelemes kuj xav tsim cov pa roj carbon fiber ntau, tab sis lawv tsis pheej vim poob. Txawm hais tias Toray tau txia luv luv - lub sijhawm tau txais txiaj ntsig, nws tau cog qoob loo uas lwm tus tsis tuaj yeem sib xws.



Today, Toray has become the world's largest carbon fiber producer, firmly controlling the market share of the world's high-end carbon fiber demand.