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Carbon Fiber Products and Usage

Carbon Fiber customers have developed wide varieties of usage of the fibers making best use of the fibers' favorable properties as presented below. Another favorable point is that JCMA member companies are able to offer wide range of assortments of fiber performances as attained by using different raw materials and by applying different processes under different processing conditions.


Types Specifications Major Usage
Fillament A yarn constituted of numerous number of fiber: twisted, untwisted, twisted-and-untwisted Resin reinforcement material for CFRP, CFRTP or C/C composites, having such usage as Aircraft/Aerospace equipment, sporting goods and industrial equipment parts
Tow An untwisted bundle of yarn constituted of extremely numerous number of fiber Ditto
Staple Yarn A yarn made of spinning of staples Heat Insulator, Anti-friction material, C/C composite parts
Woven fabric A woven sheet made of filament or staple yarn Resin reinforcement material for CFRP, CFRTP or C/C composites, having such usage as Aircraft/Aerospace equipment, sporting goods and industrial equipment parts
Braid A braided yarn made of filament or tow Resin reinforcement material particularly suitable for reinforcement of tubular products
Chopped fiber A chopped fiber made of sized or non-sized fiber Compounded into plastics/resins or portland cement to improve mechanical performances, abrasion characteristic, electric conductivity and heat resistance
Milled Powder made by milling fiber in a ball-mill etc. Compounded into plastics/resins or rubber to improve mechanical performances, abrasion characteristic, electric conductivity and heat resistance
Felt.Mat A felt or mat made by layering up of staple by carding etc. then needle-punched or strengthened by organic binders Heat insulator, base material for molded heat insulator, protective layer for heat resistance and base material for corrosion-resisting filter
Paper A paper made from staple by dry or wet paper-making Anti-electrostatics sheets, electrodes, speaker-cone and heating plate
Prepreg An intermediate material in a form of half-hardened sheets made of Carbon Fibers impregnated with thermo-setting resin, qualities of which being stable and sustained long enough and therefore easily applicable for automatic sheet-layering Aircraft/Aerospace equipment, sporting goods and industrial equipment parts needing lightness in weight and high performances
Compounds A material for injection moulding etc. made of mixture of thermo-plastics or thermo-setting resins added by various additives and chopped fiber and then being compounded Housing etc. of OA equipment taking advantages of electric conductivity, rigidity and lightness in weight