Manufacturer of advanced composites for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications.
Hexcel Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, specializes in developing, manufacturing, and marketing advanced carbon fibers, structural reinforcements, honeycomb structures, resins, and composite materials and parts. These products are used in a variety of applications including commercial aerospace, space and defense, and various industrial sectors. The company operates through two main segments: Composite Materials and Engineered Products, ensuring a broad reach across multiple high-demand markets.
The Composite Materials segment of Hexcel Corporation focuses on producing and marketing a wide range of materials such as fabrics, multi-axials, specialty reinforcements, prepregs, and other fiber-reinforced matrix materials. This segment also includes structural adhesives, molding compounds, tooling materials, polyurethane systems, and laminates. These materials are essential for manufacturing military and commercial aircraft, wind turbine blades, recreational products, automotive parts, marine and rail transportation components, and other industrial applications.
Hexcel's Engineered Products segment manufactures and markets a variety of aircraft structures and finished aircraft components. These include wing to body fairings, wing panels, flight deck panels, door liners, rotorcraft blades, spars, and tip caps. Additionally, this segment produces aircraft structural sub-components and semi-finished components used in rotorcraft blades, engine nacelles, and various aircraft surfaces such as flaps, wings, elevators, and fairings. The segment also provides RF interference control products for military and aerospace applications, alongside other interference control materials, structural composites, dielectric absorber foams, magnetic absorbers, and thermoplastics for both commercial and defense uses.
Hexcel Corporation markets and sells its products directly through its managers, product managers, and sales personnel, and also through independent distributors across the Americas, Europe, the Asia Pacific region, India, and Africa. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Hexcel Corporation continues to be a leader in the composite materials industry, driving innovation and delivering high-performance solutions for its diverse clientele.