The setting at Salt Lake City is dramatic; two mountain ranges dominate the landscape:  the Wasatch Mountain Range at 11,500 ft and the Oquirrh Mountains at 9,500 ft.  The Great Salt Lake itself - a huge salt water lake 48 miles by 90 miles - is also a unique feature, with water that is twice as salty as the ocean.

Salt Lake City is also the location for Hexcel's 128,000 sq. ft. plant which manufactures carbon fibers and hot melt fabrics and unidirectional prepreg for aerospace, satellite and recreational applications.  The plant also produces resins, epoxy resins, adhesive films and solvated fabrics used for core materials, which are supplied to Hexcel's Casa Grande plant.

The plant has had a presence in Salt Lake City since 1913.  It began producing carbon fiber in 1970 and prepreg tape in 1971.

Today the plant, which comprises of five buildings, a raw material receiving warehouse and a material testing laboratory, employs around 300 people, most of whom live within 20 miles of the facility.