Teijin corporation announced that it is supporting the Clean2Antarctica Antarctic expedition.
In the "quest for change" challenge, the project will use waste plastic and solar energy to explore the continent closest to Antarctica on Earth.
The Clean2Antarctica project, which Teijin is supporting, is one of nine projects the company celebrates its century of innovation, a century since its founding in 1918.
Challengers for the Clean2Antarctica project include Dutch adventurer Edwin ter Velde and his team of students and young professionals who will embark on their mission on august 27, 2018, aboard the Morgan Stedgall ship from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This classic Bregue sailboat will travel to Patagonia in southern Argentina. When these young people arrive at the first port, Tenerife, the Canary Islands, on September 17, 2018, they will plan the future of Teijin as required as a summary of Teijin's circular innovations.
Subsequently, Explorers of Clean2Antarctica will embark on a month-long trip to Antarctica in an environmentally friendly Solar Voyager vehicle.
The vehicle will leave The Joint Glacier Camp in West Antarctica on December 10, 2018, before attempting to travel about 2,300km between the frozen continent and the geographic South Pole.
As part of creating new value for society, Teijin Group is very happy to support the practical and representative ambitions of the Clean2Antarctica project. For a long time, Teijin has been committed to providing value-added solutions to improve people's quality of life in the next century.
To this end, Teijin is currently sponsoring the voyage of the Morgan stave and providing advanced high-performance materials and technologies for solar Voyager vehicles.
Solar Voyager vehicles are primarily made from collected used PET bottles and other recycled plastic waste.
Teijin materials for Solar Voyager vehicles include:
● Twaron para-aramid fiber, used in the bottom of the vehicle to provide durability protection against tip ice damage. Compared to steel, Twaron has 6 times the tensile strength, providing excellent heat resistance and modulus of elasticity, while weighing only 1/5 of steel.
● Technora para-aramid fibers are used in all rope applications, including towing, reinforcement and anchoring vehicles. Another application is to adjust the angle of the solar panels in order to better absorb solar energy. Technora offers extremely high tensile strength, as well as excellent resistance to impact, fatigue, chemicals, moisture and heat.
● Endumax ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene is used to maintain optimal tire shape to ensure external stability, achieving minimum rolling resistance and maximum traction. Endumax offers excellent strength, dimensional stability, low weight and durability.
Tenax carbon fiber is used to enhance the body printed by post-consumer PET 3D. Tenax has high tensile strength, high modulus of elasticity and low density.
● Panlite self-heating glazed polycarbonate (PC) resin is used in car windows to absorb infrared rays and maintain the temperature inside the car. Panlite is 200 times more resistant to impact than glass and weighs only half as much.
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