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Fibre composite carbon market, the most popular sports
In sporting events more closely monitored today, people expect to upgrade equipment, led by sports athletes who challenge the limits, including the most popular carbon fiber composites.
According to market research firm Lucintel U.S. statistics, in 2008, the value of production of carbon fiber 15 million, including sports facilities and leisure activities throughout the market for carbon fiber, which is about 18% ~ 20%, the rest is mainly used in aerospace, commercial and industrial areas and others. The global market for carbon fiber during the last five years has been the rate of double-digit growth is expected in 2014, production should reach 2.4 billion dollars. Sports and leisure facilities in the 2007-2014 years, the average annual growth rate will remain at about 3%.
production process of carbon fiber is more complicated and has a global, companies are not over 12. In which the United States a leading manufacturer of Cytec Industries Inc., Hexcel Corporation and Mitsubishi Rayon of Japan, Toho, Toray and, among others. Mitsubishi Rayon Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gelafeier (Grafil) carbon fiber aec Stephen Carmichael, director of marketing, said: "Over the last 30 years we have mastered the knowledge of many processes epitaxial which also produces high quality, high-performance materials are needed. "
The sport is a test platform for the production of carbon fibers. companies producing carbon fibers to provide new materials for sporting goods market and the commercial mode of operation, will soon be able to build a huge database of product performance, this information can also be made available to the aviation market. Sports equipment manufacturers must ensure that their suppliers of raw material control production process. There are many important characteristics of carbon fiber, in which tensile strength and tensile modulus is the end user the most attention. manufacturers of carbon fiber by controlling the precursor materials and processing conditions, you can control these two major characteristics, and therefore be a suitable carbon fiber. We can say that the demand segment of advanced composite materials, the promotion of production technology. On the other hand, suppliers of raw materials have also been sought to help customers develop new markets for materials, new features. Recent innovations in the first place on how to make products thinner and lighter.
feature carbon fiber composite is the application of push hands. With the production and application of technological advances, the appearance of carbon fiber common in sporting goods. Over the years, golf clubs carbon fiber in use was among the first in the hockey stick and crutch demands are increasing from year to year. In the racket rod, snowboarding, windsurfing masts, hull navy, backpack, tent-pole, softball and baseball bat products can also see the presence of carbon fibers.
The reason for such extensive use of carbon fiber, mainly because it can be transformed into a variety of composite materials. Carmichael said: "composite resins to both the matrix and the properties of carbon fiber, its performance with the matrix material and the properties vary in carbon fiber. Carbon fiber can be sporting goods and other finished products are widely used. "
Carmichael said that the special nature of carbon fiber products allow manufacturers to control the mechanical properties and dynamic performance, which is non-metallic and other single material can achieve. For example, hockey sticks made of carbon fiber for lighter, replacing the facility to break a wooden bat, he also contributed to the advent of 10-meter-long fishing rod. And the production of golf clubs tend to use two or three different types of carbon fiber materials of different thicknesses, steering, traction properties module to respond sp.