HXL Hexcel Corp

Hexcel Corporation (NYSE: HXL)(Paris: HXL) today announced that on Thursday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will visit Hexcel Corporation in West Valley City, Utah, where she will highlight a new Obama Administration initiative that would accelerate the resurgence of manufacturing and create jobs in cities across the country. The region’s economic development strategy is a model for the type of economic growth encouraged by this new initiative, which was included in the President’s 2014 budget request.

On her visit, Deputy Secretary Blank will take a closed-press tour of Hexcel’s Salt Lake City facility and participate in a roundtable with local business, government and educational leaders. She will deliver remarks discussing the new Administration initiative, which is designed to drive business investment to the U.S. She will also take questions from the press.

When:

  Thursday, April 18, 2013

11:00 a.m.      Remarks

11:30 p.m.      Media availability

 

Where:

Hexcel Salt Lake City 6700 West 5400 South West Valley, UT 84118   Media should arrive no later than 10:30 a.m. to check in.  

Who:

Rebecca Blank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Berges, Hexcel CEO Kevin Randall, Fiber Plant Manager Tom Hurst, Matrix Plant Manager  

Media:

Media should RSVP to the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Public Affairs at publicaffairs@doc.gov or (202) 482-4883.

 

Hexcel Corporation is a leading advanced composites company. It develops, manufactures and markets lightweight, high-performance structural materials, including carbon fibers, reinforcements, prepregs, honeycomb, matrix systems, adhesives and composite structures, used in commercial aerospace, space and defense and industrial applications such as wind turbine blades.