4M is commercializing the world’s first large-scale carbon fiber plasma oxidation oven.  4M’s technology will enable the production of high performance and low-cost carbon fiber, providing this exploding industry a cost-effective way to increase production to meet the projected 300% increase over the next 10 years.  It will significantly reduce the market growth cost constraints of industrial carbon fiber in existing markets while promoting expansion of carbon fiber use into new applications.  4M’s plasma oxidation technology has been proven to triple production throughput, reduce energy consumption by 75% while yielding a high-performance carbon fiber.