Carbon fiber businesses in the United States

Japan toray company will be in today's takeover of the world's carbon fiber the drow the liner (ZOLTEK) companies in the United States, about purchase amount between 600-70 billion yen. Toray this cheap carbon fiber field, the product from the current 20% to 20% of the total of the world, continue to ensure that the dominant market share. Carbon fiber is lighter than iron but strength characteristics, mainly used in the aviation wing, fuselage, car hood, but the price of iron is several or dozens of times, so the penetration rate is low.

ZOLTEK produced about 60% of the carbon price is toray high-performance fibers, the main supply of building materials and auto parts manufacturers. Toray plans through the acquisition, reduce production cost, expanding areas of low price of the carbon fiber market. Toray in 2013 between April and June JueSuanQi sales increased 32.9% year-on-year, to 24.4 billion yen, mainly Boeing and orders increase natural gas manufacturing company.

The global demand for carbon fiber to reach 140000 tons a year in 2020, is now 4 times. Toray plans through mergers and acquisitions, quickly pull open with Japan teijin and rapid development of Taiwan and China factory. Toray has 110 billion yen in March 2013 final accounts of the final cash, year-on-year increase of 20 billion yen. That toray had not implemented large-scale mergers and acquisitions, but this year adjustment policies, to ensure that the company continued development and investment on a large scale.