8 April 2015
The significant weight savings in vehicles made using CFRP
would result in lower fuel consumption, leading to
a lower impact on our environment.
Currently the use of CFRP is limited to
a small number of sports cars and high-end luxury vehicles
but if this could be expanded to mass production vehicles as well,
it would have a significant impact on released CO2 and
energy consumption on a global scale.
Teijin supports the future of car manufacturing
through the power of fibers.
DETAILS
announced today that
it has integrated its development and marketing of
automotive-use carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRTP),
aiming to strengthen the group’s business
in this highly value-added form of CFRP.
The Automotive Business Development Group
launched on 1 April 2015
as a new entity directly under
the Carbon Fibers & Composites Business Unit.
It is responsible for marketing thermoplastic CFRP
formerly handled by
the Teijin Composites Innovation Center and thermoset CFRP
formerly handled by Toho Tenax 
,
the core company of
the group’s carbon fibers and composites business.
Teijin Composites Innovation Center reforms its function and
will focus on developing technologies for individual projects.
Integrating and reorganizing these functions
will enable the Teijin to accelerate its CFRP business,
especially in the highly promising automotive field.
Teijin expects to become
Japan’s leading provider of CFRP composites
for automotive applications.
Teijin developed Sereebo,
the world’s first mass-production technology
for thermoplastic CFRP
with a one-minute takt time, in 2011.
Current efforts are focused on
developing automotive CFRP products
for global automakers in Japan and other countries.
Toho Tenax, which spearheads
Teijin’s carbon fibers and composites business,
is developing automotive-use products such as
high-efficiency thermoset CFRP and
rapid-curing carbon fiber sheet pre-impregnated with matrix resin.
Teijin now looks forward to providing
highly tailored, one-stop solutions for
both thermoplastic and thermoset CFRP composites
for customers in the automotive field and beyond.
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