This new offering should help reduce environmental footprints by lightening carbon-fiber reinforced plastic materials. Potential applications range from sporting and leisure goods to aircraft. With demand for high-strength carbon fibers rising, Toray set about refining its proprietary nanoscale structural control technology to design and achieve an internal structure with high toughness. Applying this technology led Toray to create TORAYCA T1200, with a tensile strength of 8.0 gigapascals (or GPa, which is around 100 kilogram force per square millimeter). This is more than 10% higher than the 7.0 for Torayca T1100. Toray developed T1200 at a new facility within its Ehime Plant (in Masaki-cho, Ehime Prefecture) in Japan. Read more: Reinforced Plastics - Toray develops ultra high-strength carbon fiber