What’s carbon fiber?

Tenax® is a high-performance carbon fiber made from a poly-acrylic-nitrile (PAN) precursor material. Since the 80s, it has being used, to an ever increasing extent, in high-performance composites. Its excellent properties make it an ideal material for structurally highly loaded parts in aerospace, leisure and medical science as well as in the automotive, electrical, wind-type, oil-offshore and chemical industries.

 

Mechanical Data and Dynamic Properties

  • High strength
  • High modulus
  • Low density
  • Low creep rate
  • Good vibration damping
  • Low fatigue

 

Chemical Properties

  • chemically inert
  • Non-corrosive
  • High resistance against acids, alkalis and organic solvents

 

Thermal Properties

  • Low thermal expansion
  • Low thermal conductivity


Electro-Magnetic Properties

  • Low X-ray absorption
  • Non-magnetic


Electrical Properties

  • High electrical conductivity

Tenax® product portfolio