# HEXCEL CORP /DE/

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## Overview

Hexcel Corporation is a manufacturer of advanced composite materials and engineered products. Its portfolio includes carbon fiber, specialty reinforcements, resin systems, prepregs, honeycomb core and lightweight composite structures. The company serves commercial aerospace, defense and space, and industrial markets. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84911764)

Hexcel has manufacturing operations in the United States and internationally, including in Morocco, France, England, Spain and Germany. Its stated purpose is “Lightweighting to Propel the Future.” [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14118702)[3](https://www.hexcel.com/about-us/)

For fiscal 2025, Hexcel reported net sales of $1.894 billion and 5,563 employees and contract workers worldwide as of December 31, 2025. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11057402)[5](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717605/000119312526046377/hxl-20251231.htm)
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## Products & services

Hexcel’s product range includes HexTow® continuous carbon fiber, used in composite reinforcement, fabrics, prepregs and filament-wound parts for aerospace, recreation and industrial applications. Its HexForce® fabrics and multiaxial reinforcements use fibers including carbon, glass, aramid and quartz. HexPly® prepregs combine fiber reinforcement with resin matrices such as epoxy, BMI, cyanate ester, phenolic and polyimide; they are used in aircraft structures and components and can be processed by hand layup, automatic tape layup or fiber placement. HexTow IM7 has a listed tensile modulus of 40.0 Msi (276 GPa). [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P85277592)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P121524115)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P63051184)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P18271975)[10](https://www.hexcel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IM7_HexTow_DataSheet.pdf)

Other product families include HexWeb® lightweight honeycomb core, supplied in materials such as fiberglass, carbon fiber, aramid and aluminum, and HexWeb Acousti-Cap® for aircraft-engine noise attenuation; HexFlow® liquid and film resins for processes including resin-transfer molding and resin-film infusion; and HexBond® film and paste adhesives for bonding metals, composites and honeycomb. HexTool® is a quasi-isotropic carbon-fiber prepreg for high-temperature tooling, while HexFIT® combines resin films with dry fiber reinforcement for contoured composite structures. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P3469897)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P88279439)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P13142994)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P14986702)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P27427327)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P21962955)[17](https://www.hexcel.com/Products/Honeycomb/HexWeb-Honeycomb/)

Hexcel also makes engineered composite structures, machined honeycomb, RF/EMI and microwave-absorbing materials, and HexAM® 3D-printed parts. Related capabilities include machining, sub-assembly, rotorcraft-blade manufacture, prototyping, materials testing and technical support. The company reports end-market rather than product-family sales mix: Commercial Aerospace accounted for 61% of FY2025 net sales and Defense, Space & Other for 39%; those figures are not product-category percentages. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84911764)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P97904865)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P95701713)[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P112867091)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P36057104)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75978878)[23](https://www.hexcel.com/industries/industrial/automotive-technical-support/)
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## Geographic presence

Hexcel’s FY2025 manufacturing footprint comprised eight U.S. plants—in Amesbury, Massachusetts; Burlington and Kent, Washington; Casa Grande, Arizona; Decatur, Alabama; Pottsville, Pennsylvania; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Seguin, Texas—and ten plants in Europe and North Africa: Casablanca, Morocco; four sites in France; two in England; two in Spain; and Stade, Germany. The company also reported that operations had ceased at its owned Welkenraedt, Belgium facility, and that it divested its Neumarkt, Austria facility and South Windsor, Connecticut business during 2025. [2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T14118702)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P67150148)

FY2025 net sales totaled $1.894 billion. By manufacturing location, 52.7% was attributed to the U.S. and 47.3% to international locations, including France (17.5%), the U.K. (8.6%), Germany (7.1%), Spain (11.1%), Austria (1.4%) and other locations (1.7%). By delivery destination, 43.0% of sales went to the U.S. and 57.0% to international destinations; these are distinct measures, since the manufacturing-location figures are based on where products were made. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T1451659)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P96087938)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P24499583)

At year-end 2025, Hexcel reported 5,563 full-time employees and contract workers: 3,050 in the U.S. and 2,513 in other countries. Its global headquarters is in Stamford, Connecticut; the company also lists sales offices in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P95781642)[29](https://www.hexcel.com/contact-us/hexcel-global-headquarters/)[30](https://www.hexcel.com/contact-us/)
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## Business segments

Hexcel reports two operating segments: **Composite Materials** and **Engineered Products**. Composite Materials includes carbon fiber, specialty reinforcements, resin systems, prepregs and other fiber-reinforced materials, honeycomb core, and pultruded profiles. In FY2025, it generated $1,516.2 million in sales to external customers, approximately **80.0%** of consolidated sales. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84911764)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11057402)

Engineered Products focuses on lightweight, high-strength composite structures and engineered products such as aircraft structures and components, honeycomb sub-components, and materials for radio-frequency interference and microwave absorption. It generated $377.7 million in FY2025 external sales, approximately **19.9%** of consolidated sales. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84911764)[31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T9240356)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11057402)

Hexcel also presents sales by end market and geography as separate disclosure views, not as additional reportable operating segments. For FY2025, Commercial Aerospace represented 61% of sales and Defense, Space & Other represented 39%. [20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P112867091)[32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P1211457)
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## Company history

Hexcel traces its origins to a San Francisco Bay Area laboratory founded in 1948 by Roger C. Steele and Roscoe T. “Bud” Hughes. Its early work focused on honeycomb materials, including research for military-aircraft radomes; Hexcel later became a commercial honeycomb manufacturer, and its materials were used in the Apollo 11 lunar module. [3](https://www.hexcel.com/about-us/)[33](https://www.hexcel.com/propelling-the-future-of-space-and-defense/)

In February 1996, Hexcel acquired Ciba-Geigy’s composites business, expanding its composites operations. [3](https://www.hexcel.com/about-us/) From 2008 to 2018, it invested €200 million in its Roussillon, France, site, which opened in 2018 to produce PAN precursor and carbon fiber. [34](https://www.hexcel.com/contact-us/hexcel-roussillon/) In 2023, Hexcel opened an expanded engineered-core plant in Casablanca, Morocco, and a new Research & Technology center in Utah. [35](https://www.hexcel.com/hexcel-marks-grand-opening-of-newly-expanded-engineered-core-operations-plant-in-morocco/)[36](https://www.hexcel.com/hexcel-opens-new-center-of-research-technology-excellence-in-utah/)
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