Manufacturing Industry
Conoco Targets "Industrial" Markets for New Low-Cost Carbon Fiber -- Part 1 of 3.(Brief Article)
Advanced Materials & Composites News, February, 2000
Conoco Inc. of Houston is building a new plant in Ponca City, Oklahoma for production of up to 8 million pounds per year of a random oriented carbon fiber mat, as we reported in the last issue. [See AM&CN #485, p.3, of 17 January.] The pilot line (which is a process said to be other than melt spinning) produces mat about 2-feet wide with a loft of up to three inches.
The production line will be able to produce the product "many feet" wide and with variable density, thickness and properties. The input for the Conoco fiber is said to be an pitch by-product (not from asphalt) derived from a refinery also in Ponca City. Tailored products for new applications in the industrial sectors (rather than aerospace or sporting goods), based on "fitness for purpose and...
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