{"id":3199,"date":"2023-10-04T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.toray-cfe.com\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:30:54","slug":"toray-expanding-european-carbon-fiber-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toray-cfe.com\/en\/toray-expanding-european-carbon-fiber-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Toray Expanding European Carbon Fiber Production Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2023 <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Toray Industries, Inc., announced today that it has decided to expand French subsidiary Toray Carbon Fibers Europe S.A.\u2019s production facilities for regular tow* medium- and high-modulus carbon fibers. This move will increase annual capacity at the Abidos plant (South-West France) from 5,000 metric tons annually, to 6,000 metric tons.\u00a0 Production is expected to start in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Demand for medium- and high-modulus carbon fibers is rising in Europe, driven by a push to move towards a net-zero society.\u00a0 This growth is mainly due to higher build rates for commercial aircrafts (secondary structures and engines), as well as centrifuge for energy production, satellites, and high-end automobiles.\u00a0 By boosting carbon fiber production capacity in Europe, Toray is responding to its customers\u2019 demand for medium and high-modulus carbon fibers, as befits the market leader.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Toray has made sustainable growth pivotal to Project AP-G 2025, its medium-term management program. Accordingly, the company has developed solutions to tackle climate change with its carbon fiber composite materials. Toray will fully leverage its resources to help achieve a carbon-neutral economy by 2050, in keeping with its corporate philosophy of contributing to society by creating new value.<\/p>\n<p>*Regular tow fibers are carbon fibers with up to 24,000 filaments, serving in fields requiring exceptional performance and quality, including aircraft and pressure vessels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1855 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/toray-cfe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/toray-actualite-haut-module-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Toray haut module\" width=\"419\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toray-cfe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/toray-actualite-haut-module-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toray-cfe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/toray-actualite-haut-module.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile of Toray Carbon Fibers Europe S.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1) Business: Manufacturing and selling carbon fibers and composite pultruded products (rods and laminates)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Head office: Lacq, (South-West France)<\/p>\n<p>(3) Established: December 1982<\/p>\n<p>(4) Representative: Jean-Marc Guilhempey, Chairman and CEO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Toray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toray is a leading global company in innovative technologies and advanced materials. Since its foundation in 1926, the Company has contributed to society through the creation of new value and addressed global challenges by delivering high value-added products including fibers and textiles, resins and films, and carbon fiber composite materials. It operates in 29 countries and regions with about 49,000 employees worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toray.com\">www.toray.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:newsrelease.toray.mb@mail.toray\">newsrelease.toray.mb@mail.toray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan, October 4, 2023 Toray Industries, Inc., announced today that it has decided to expand French subsidiary Toray Carbon Fibers Europe S.A.\u2019s production facilities for regular tow* medium- and high-modulus carbon fibers. 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