Teijin has developed AFRW (advanced fiber reinforced wood) for wooden architectures by applying high-performance fiber, and promotes a project to develop the new technologies to construct low/middle-raising wooden architectures.
　As CFRW (carbon fiber reinforced wood) is composed of bonded wood (generally used for middle/low-raising wooden architectures) reinforced with high-rigid carbon fiber composite sheet, its bending rigidity is confirmed as 2 times higher than wood, the durability and design-flexibility of architectures could be improved by applying this CFRW to beams etc. Teijin expects AFRW be widely employed in wooden architectures from its physical advantages.

JCFA News Letter (No.10) May, 2015/Japan Chemical Fibers Association