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Toray to expand carbon fiber supply to Boeing in $8.6B deal

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has agreed in principle to supply carbon fiber TORAYCA prepreg for the production of the new 777X aircraft by The Boeing Company. TORAYCA Prepreg is an intermediate TORAYCA product supplied in sheets consisting of resin-impregnated carbon fiber. the new facilities are expected to start operation in January 2016. .;

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SGL Group is development partner for GDLs in high-performance fuel cells in the automotive sector

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SGL Group brings its long-established expertise as a component developer to the project, and is responsible for the development of the gas diffusion layers (GDL), which will be manufactured based on carbon fibers. —Park et al. Gerd Wingefeld, Chief Technology Officer at SGL Group.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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These three geographical areas will each have approximately 50 stations by 2016 and plans to expand this cumulatively to a multiple hundreds by 2020 and thousands in the decade thereafter. Germany will have ~14-16 H 2 stations this year, with 50 by the end of 2016. Japan will have 45 H 2 stations this year, with ~100 in 2016.

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