Hexcel Corporation，今天宣布，它将通过在摩洛哥卡萨布兰卡建造一个117,000平方英尺的制造工厂来扩大其全球工程核心能力。
新设施是Hexcel正在进行的全球投资的一部分，旨在创建一个多元化，强大的全球供应链，以支持航空航天客户对工程核心的不断增长的需求。工程核心是形成的，并在诸如飞机二级结构，NACELLES和直升机叶片等结构应用中进行轻巧的蜂窝材料亚博网站下载。近年来，Hexcel提高了现有工厂的能力，以支持其当前的工程核心业务，并计划进一步扩展，以在全球市场中获得更多的增长潜力。
The new Moroccan plant will be built at the MidParc Free Trade Zone (FTZ) Industrial Park, located close to Morocco’s Mohammed V airport and near several Hexcel customers including Safran (Aircelle), Airbus (STELIA), Matis (a joint venture between Boeing and Safran) and Bombardier. Construction on the $20 million project begins in the spring, and the plant is expected to be fully operational by mid-2017. By 2020, it is expected to employ more than 200 people.
Hexcel的董事长，首席执行官兼总裁Nick Stanage说：“我们相信Engineered Core具有出色的增长前景和全球上升潜力。这种新工厂将使我们赢得新业务，为发动机和NACELLES和其他商业航空建筑应用提供工程核心。我们希望通过这个新的摩洛哥卓越中心与我们在欧洲，中东，非洲和北美的主要客户群更紧密地合作。”
Bob Noble, Vice President, Partnering for Success, Supplier Management, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said, “Through our joint venture Matis, Boeing has been an anchor of the growing Moroccan aerospace ecosystem since 2000. We welcome Hexcel’s new facility, which will serve to further expand regional capabilities, increasing the value Morocco offers aerospace companies around the world.”