DUXFORD, UK, December 10, 2008 - Hexcel Corporation (NYSE: HXL) announced today that its previously disclosed new facility for providing prepreg materials to the U.S. wind energy industry will be located in the Great Western Industrial Park in Windsor, Colorado.  The new plant will manufacture HexPly® epoxy resin prepregs in a specially designed leased facility that is located close to a major customer’s wind turbine blade fabrication site.  Hexcel expects production to begin at the new plant in the second half of 2009.

Dave Berges, Hexcel Chairman and CEO commented:  “The setting up of our plant in Windsor, Colorado, is another key step in Hexcel’s establishment of global operations to support the fast growing Wind Energy market.  We have been supplying wind energy customers in Europe for over 10 years from our plant in Neumarkt, Austria and have recently begun qualification runs for wind energy materials at our new facility in Tianjin, China.”

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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.

Contact: Rachel Woolerton
Tel: +44 1223 838370
Rachel.Woolerton@hexcel.com