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Toray Advanced Composites
Producer and supplier of advanced composite materials
Toray Advanced Composites (formerly TenCate Advanced Composites) is a multi-national producer and supplier of advanced composite materials. In the twentieth century, it developed a range of high-performance thermoplastic composites and thermoset pre-preg resins that are used today in a broad spectrum of applications.
As of September 2016[update], the company was listed as one of the top advanced polymer composite manufacturers in the global market.[1] It operates six manufacturing facilities in four countries. The corporate office for Toray Advanced Composites USA is located in Morgan Hill, CA, and the European corporate office is located in Nijverdal, the Netherlands.[2] They distribute the following composite products worldwide:
- Thermoplastic and thermoset pre-pregs
- Composite laminates
- Tooling Materials
- Syntactic Foams
- Bulk Molding Compounds
- Film Adhesives
- Honeycomb Core
- Compression-molded Parts
- RTM Resins
As of March 2016[update] it was privately held.[3] On March 14, 2018, Toray announced an agreement with Royal Ten Cate B.V. to acquire TenCate Advanced Composites for 930 million euros. The completion of the transaction occurred on July 17, 2018.[4][5]
On March 12, 2019, TenCate Advanced Composites announced to change its name to Toray Advanced Composites at JEC World 2019.[6][7]