Carbon Fiber Knowledge
The latest from the world of advanced composites and carbon fiber technology.
Toray Carbon Fibers Europe has announced the operational start-up of a new carbon fiber production facility at its Abidos plant in South-West France. The facility produces T300 and high-modulus (HM) carbon fibers and increases the plant's total annual capacity from 5,000 to 6,000 tonnes
Electric vehicle programs measure manufacturing viability in seconds of cycle time, not kilograms of mass saved. A battery enclosure is one of the largest single parts on an EV platform — a typical C-segment housing spans more than 1,400 millimeters in length and carries crash, crush, a
Wide-body aircraft fuselage barrels are the largest composite structures in commercial aviation, and they are built around a single piece of infrastructure: the autoclave. The Boeing 787 fuselage measures 5.77 meters in diameter, the Airbus A350 approximately 5.96 meters, and each barre
Wind turbine blades are the largest composite structures in serial production, and for three decades they have shared one inconvenient trait: the thermoset resin that gives them their stiffness cannot be re-melted or re-formed. When a blade reaches end of life, its 15-25 tonnes of glass
Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is entering its end-of-life wave. The first generation of large wind turbine blades, aircraft components, and automotive parts is being decommissioned, and the industry faces a hard question: what happens to the fiber after the part is gone? The an
Hydrogen is rarely consumed where it is produced. Electrolysis plants, ammonia facilities, and industrial clusters sit far from the ports, factories, and refueling stations that need the gas, and moving hydrogen economically over distance has been a persistent bottleneck for the industr
Commercial shipping accounts for roughly three percent of global CO2 emissions, and the International Maritime Organization's decarbonization targets have pushed the industry to test every viable option — alternative fuels, hull optimization, and a return to a technology that predates e
The Western carbon fiber industry is going through its most significant restructuring in a decade. The trigger is well documented in the ATA 2025 annual market report: Chinese operational capacity reached 171,080 tonnes — 52.5% of the global total — and Jilin Chemical Fiber overtook Tor
Every year, ATA CFT Guangzhou Co. Ltd. publishes the most widely cited annual assessment of the global carbon fiber market. The 2025 edition, released in mid-2026 by general manager Lin Gang, documents a year of record volume and a structural shift in supply. Global carbon fiber demand