Nanocomp Technologies,
Inc., purpose is to leverage its proprietary and fundamental advancements
in the production of long carbon nanotubes as well as its unique ability to
fabricate them into physically strong, lightweight and electro-thermally conductive
yarns and sheets, today announced it has produced and delivered 10 kilometers
of its CTex™ CNT yarn to one of its Fortune 100 aerospace customers. Delivering
long lengths of CNT yarn further solidifies Nanocomp's position as the
only U.S. commercial company to fabricate industrially relevant finished materials
from carbon nanotubes. In addition, the Company is announcing today its new
capability to deliver 4-foot by 8-foot CNT mats, the largest of their kind in
the world.
Nanocomp's fundamental breakthrough is its patent-pending method for
high-volume production of very long CNTs (approximately one millimeter in length),
and then processing the nanotubes into contiguous macrostructures. Over the
past 18 months, the company has been distributing CNT yarn into the marketplace,
recently delivering the 10 kilometer shipment to meet its customer's volume
and performance specifications.
“We are steadily proving to the world that nanotubes can deliver their
game-changing properties in industrially useful product formats,” said
Peter Antoinette, president and CEO of Nanocomp Technologies. “Perhaps
most remarkable to us, however, is hearing the engineers from our most demanding
customers talk about the many new design possibilities that have become available
to them with Nanocomp's products in the mix. The fact that these highly
conductive products are lighter and stronger than aluminum, can be draped like
a cloth or spun like a yarn or wire, and can tolerate even the harshest of operating
environments solves many long-standing design objectives – particularly
the challenges of weight reduction.”
Nanocomp is experiencing significant customer demand in the aerospace and aviation
markets for nanotube materials to save weight in a variety of complex systems,
as well as to provide electrostatic discharge (ESD) and electromagnetic interference
(EMI) shielding components. Most recently, the company received a number of
DoD contracts to further develop its state-of-the-art technology as Nanocomp
progresses toward advanced manufacturing processes and wide-scale commercialization.
For more information and multimedia presentations, please visit www.nanocomptech.com.
Posted June 16th, 2009
