Teijin to build carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic factory

Teijin Corporation of Japan announced that it will establish the world's first pilot plant to manufacture carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) products in its Songshan factory site in Ehime Prefecture. The plant will use unprecedented production technology of CFRTP products and dramatically reduce the cycle time required to form composite materials to less than one minute.

The construction of the new plant will soon begin and production is expected to start in mid-2012. The new plant will enable Teijin to further accelerate the industrial production of automotive and other industrial CFRTP products, with a total investment of more than 2 billion yen.

Teijin's proprietary CFRTP mass production technology can make carbon fiber composite products within one minute, which is an ideal time for automotive manufacturers to mass-produce vehicles. This technology can achieve a revolutionary weight loss index. It is expected that it will be used in a variety of applications that require a certain degree of structural strength in addition to automobiles.

In order to introduce this cutting-edge technology to automakers, Teijin developed an electric concept vehicle earlier this year. Its body structure is completely made of CFRTP and weighs only 47 kilograms, which is roughly five times the weight of a common car body structure. one.