Polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibres with a high degree of carbonization (>99%) and the associated industrial production process were first developed in the 1960s.
\nThe high mechanical performance (tensile modulus and strength) of this new material offered new possibilities for composite applications, but was also priced accordingly for decades. This limited its use to companies and industries that could either sell their products at a high price, had no other technical alternatives or, as is the case in the aerospace industry, could afford it.
\nAround the year 2000, this situation changed: new suppliers entered the market, offering so-called \"high-tow carbon fibers\" in industrial quality (~240GPa \/ 4000 MPa, 50K) at lower prices, thus enabling other industries to use these fibers in their applications.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Industrial grade carbon fibres make high-performance applications more accessible - Polyacrylonitrile-based carbon fibres with a high degree of carbonization (>99%) and the associated industrial production process were first developed in the 1960s. The high mechanical performance (E tensile modulus and strength) of this new material offered new possibilities for composite applications, but was also priced accordingly for decades. This limited its use to companies and industries that could either sell their products at a high price, had no other technical alternatives or, as is the case in the aerospace industry, could afford it. Around the year 2000, this situation changed: new suppliers entered the market, offering so-called \u201ehigh-tow carbon fibers\u201c in industrial quality (~240GPa \/ 4000 MPa, 50K) at lower prices, thus enabling other industries to use these fibers in their applications.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"competences":[],"brands":[],"class_list":["post-18357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-article"],"acf":{"news_contact":"","news_video_youtube":"","project_subheadline":"Industriequalit\u00e4ts-Carbonfasern machen Hochleistungsanwendungen breiter zug\u00e4nglich","project_gallery":[{"field_62ebd9c88c8d4":"18358","field_62ecd2f4b92f5":""}],"project_gallery_height":450,"project_gallery_effect":"coverflow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18357"},{"taxonomy":"competences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/competences?post=18357"},{"taxonomy":"brands","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brands?post=18357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}