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PRESS RELEASE: August 20, 2009

Since July 2009, Tenax^® HTS 3k, 6k and 12k fibers have been qualified to the NMS 818 dry fiber specification.  This allows manufacturers and designers to call out an industry standard, PCD controlled, aerospace grade carbon fiber without the expense of writing and maintaining their own in house specifications.

NCAMP
The National Center for Advanced Materials Performance is based at Wichita State University. NCAMP's mission is to provide the nation with a center for the validation and quality assurance of composites and advanced materials to be applied in the commercial and military aviation industry through (a) data-sharing among multiple users, (b) statistical continuity from one length-scale to another and (c) reduced testing via increased capability and use of numerical/analytical simulation tools.

NASA, the aircraft industry and the FAA have worked together to develop a cost-effective method of qualifying composite materials by sharing central material qualification databases, such as Military Handbook 17 (now Composite Materials Handbook 17 - http://www.cmh17.org), and the databases formed through NASA.s Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) program. Through these shared databases, a manufacturer can select an approved composite material system to fabricate parts and perform a smaller subset of testing to a specific application. For materials to be accepted into these shared databases, it is required that the raw materials be manufactured in accordance with material specifications, which impose control of the key physical, chemical and mechanical properties.

Toho Tenax America, Inc., is your Americas source for Tenax^® brand carbon fibers. Tenax^® fibers deliver reinforcing excellence for diverse end-use applications including; Aerospace, Wind Energy, Surface Transportation, Offshore Oil and Pressure Vessels.

For more information contact: Peter W. Oswald; VP Marketing