Toray to exhibit at Asia's largest composite materials show

The Toray booth, No. 415 in hall 1, will showcase solutions that leverage the comprehensive capabilities of the Toray Group to meet the needs of customers, while featuring the company's extensive technologies and broad portfolio of products. It will also highlight the contributions being made by Toray's carbon fibre composite materials in the areas of mobility, energy, and quality of life. These materials have been developed not only to improve convenience in daily life, but also to enhance performance in the fields of sports, energy and conveyor equipment, where there is a growing need for the reduction of CO₂ emissions and other environmental measures.

TORAYCA T720 and T800 carbon fibre are used for hydrogen tanks, while TORAYCA T700 is used to make cable cores. In addition, TORAYCA fast-curing prepreg has been chosen for the manufacture of automobile bumpers. By using prepreg that combines the world's strongest carbon fibre, TORAYCA T1100G, with Toray's proprietary NANOALLOY technology, prepreg applications are being expanded to include aerospace products, as well as high-end sports and racing cars.

Toray is also focused on industrial applications where demand is expected to increase in the future, especially automotive structural components. In response to increasing demand and diversifying needs, the company has started mass production of TORAYCA GT Z600, a carbon fibre with excellent cost performance. Z600 has intermediate properties between large tow carbon fibre, produced by Zoltek, a Toray subsidiary in the US, and regular tow, which has a proven track record in pressure vessel applications. Samples of Z600 will be on display at the Toray booth.

Toray has positioned its carbon fibre composite materials as a strategic business for expansion under its medium-term management program, Project AP-G 2019. Accordingly, it is actively investing management resources to promote business expansion as well as research and technology development. Going forward, Toray wants to keep transforming society with the power of materials, by further enhancing cooperation within the Toray Group while responding rapidly to market needs.

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