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Carbon Fiber for Aircraft Toray Receives Over 1 Trillion Yen Order
Toray Industries, Inc. announced on April 17 that it has reached a basic agreement with U.S.-based Boeing to accept an order worth 1 trillion yen for carbon fiber, the latest lightweight material used in aircraft. Toray will exclusively supply the material for the wing sections of the current 787 midsize aircraft and the next 777X large passenger aircraft over the next 10 years. Toray will invest 100 billion yen to build one of the world's largest carbon fiber plants in the U.S. to handle large orders. Toray President Akihiro Nikkaku, Boeing CTO John Tracy, and others at the press conference on the afternoon of November 17, 2014.
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