Pantagraph contact strips are indispensable parts for electric train in their collectors on top of pantographs to collect electrical current by contacting with trolley wire.

Not only electrical conductivity, wear resistance, and arc resistance property, contact stripes are required the performance to bear harsh weather condition in outside.

Copper-impregnated carbon contact strips which Toyo Tanso developed succeed the lubricity improvement comparing to another kind of contact stripes and realize to reduce Maintenance cost.

Due to this fact, Toyo Tanso's carbon contact stripes are employed in JR(*1) regular lines, Japanese private railways or so.
(*1)The Japan Raiway Group, which is the biggest railway group company in Japan.