Carbon fiber is rarely used directly, and most of it is used for deep processing into intermediate products or composite materials. Carbon fiber composite materials are widely used in structural materials or functional parts in aerospace, industrial and sports leisure products.
Carbon fiber is first used in aerospace and defense fields due to its light weight, high strength, high modulus, high temperature resistance and corrosion resistance, such as large aircraft, military aircraft, drones and missiles, rockets, satellites and radomes. And the performance level of carbon fiber used in the aerospace industry is relatively high.
In the industrial sector, carbon fiber is widely used in automobiles, cables, wind power generation, pressure vessels, marine industries, electronic devices, industrial equipment and civil engineering.
In the field of sports and leisure products, golf clubs and fishing rods were first used. In recent years, bicycles, tennis rackets, badminton rackets and other sporting goods are also increasingly using carbon fiber materials, generally using T300 grade carbon fiber can meet the demand, but In order to improve product performance, some components have also begun to use T700 grade or higher performance carbon fiber.
From the perspective of the international market, the global demand for carbon fiber in 2014 was about 54,000 tons, reaching 74,000 tons in 2015 and 83,000 tons in 2016. In the past 8 years, the compound growth rate of carbon fiber demand has reached 8.9%, and the average annual growth rate will exceed 10%. In 2020, the demand will exceed 130,000 tons.
In 2015, the main downstream applications of carbon fiber were aerospace of 17,800 tons/24%, automobiles of 1.11 tons/15%, wind turbine blades of 16,300 tons/22%, sports and leisure of 0.89 million tons/12%, totaling 54,000 tons. Than 73%. In the future, with the continuous development of carbon fiber composite molding technology, the downstream application field continues to develop, especially the strong growth of aviation, automobiles and wind power blades and their driving effects.
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