Extremely temperature resilient carbonized rayon fabric made by SGL Carbon

Carbonized fabric is used to produce carbon cloth composites, which protect structural components from heat by functioning as ablative materials due to their extreme temperature resilience. In addition, carbon fabric shows excellent thermal stability, superb mechanical properties, including high strength, high quality and purity, is lightweight, and chemically inert.

At SGL Carbon’s center of competence for carbon fabrics in Valencia, California, they produce their fabrics using a state-of-the-art Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) controlled carbonization process that transforms 100% rayon-based continuous filament rayon cloth into high-quality carbon fabric at temperatures above 1,200 °C (approximately 2,220 °F).

With over four decades of experience in manufacturing carbon fabrics for the most demanding and extreme applications, SGL Carbon is committed to delivering unparalleled quality and reliability.

“We can build on a long history and extensive experience in manufacturing high-quality carbon fabric for the most extreme and demanding applications”, says Brian Green, Managing Director of SGL Technic LLC. “We began our involvement in rayon-based carbon fabric production in 1976. SGL Carbon was an important supplier to the aerospace industry, producing, among others, material for the NASA Space Shuttle program”.

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