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LEONA™, a highly strong and highly heat-resistant filament, contributes to vehicle safety.
LEONA™ is highly strong and has excellent heat resistance. In addition, LEONA™ excels in rubber adhesiveness. LEONA™ is used as an industrial material. It is mainly used for automotive products.
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LEONA™, which has high strength and high heat resistance, contributes to weight reduction and compactness while ensuring the product performance of air bags and tires.
LEONA™, which has high strength and high heat resistance, contributes to weight reduction and compactness while ensuring the product performance of air bags and tires.
High-Strength
Asahi Kasei produces yarn for tire cords that is among the strongest in the world. Our yarn is used for cords for aircraft tires.
In-house manufacture of raw materials
Of the Japanese Ny 66 filament manufacturers, only Asahi Kasei produces things ranging from raw materials to filaments in one company in a consistent manner, which leads to highly stable quality and prices.
Continuous polymerizing and direct spinning processes
Of all the Japanese Ny 66 filament manufacturers, only Asahi Kasei does not make raw materials into chips, but has equipment that performs the direct spinning of things ranging from polymers to filaments. In this way, we achieve effective production processes.
Air bag base fabric
As for air bags that must meet rigorous quality requirements, the quality of LEONA™ is highly esteemed. Accordingly, LEONA™ is adopted as a material of various types of air bag base fabric by clients from all over the world. Furthermore, we are contributing to lighter weight and higher airtightness of air bag base fabric through the development of yarn tailored to the needs of our clients.
Tire cords
LEONA™, which has advantages such as rubber adhesiveness and high strength, is used for not only passenger car tires, but also high-performance tires and aircraft tires that are required to have enhanced performance.
Rubber products
LEONA™ is also widely used as a reinforcing material for rubber products (timing belts, hoses, etc.) with which automobiles are equipped.