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Materials
More Carbon Fiber Planned For France
by Marc S. Reisch
October 6, 2014
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 92, Issue 40
Hexcel plans to spend $250 million on a plant in Roussillon, France, that will make carbon fiber and its precursors. The new unit, the company’s first in France, will supplement carbon fiber facilities in the U.S. and Spain. The additional capacity, to be fully operational by 2018, will meet growing demand from aerospace customers for strong, lightweight components, Hexcel says. Separately, Japanese competitor Toray Industries just completed a precursor plant in Lacq, France, to support carbon fiber expansions in France and elsewhere.
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