Five-year global agreement enhances supply security, resilience, and long-term collaboration for high-performance carbon fiber solutions
Syensqo, a leading global provider of advanced materials, today announced a strategic supply agreement with Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. (Toray) to help ensure reliable access to carbon fiber for the aerospace industry. The five-year collaboration, which took effect in January 2026, reflects both companies’ commitment to supporting current and future commercial and defense aerospace programs while strengthening operational resilience amid evolving global and geopolitical conditions.
Under the terms of this collaboration, Toray will provide high strength and intermediate modulus carbon fibers to support Syensqo’s composite materials portfolio for existing and future aerospace programs. By leveraging Toray’s global fiber production capabilities and Syensqo’s advanced resin technologies, we are able to offer customers a broad composite product portfolio designed to meet a wide range of requirements and specifications.
This agreement reflects our shared commitment to supply security, stability, and long-term partnership in the aerospace market. By strengthening our alignment with Toray, we are reducing risk across the value chain and reinforcing our ability to serve customers with consistency and confidence.
We are delighted to announce this significant milestone in our partnership with Syensqo. Toray is fully committed to strengthening and expanding the global supply chain for the aircraft, space and defense applications. By combining Toray’s fiber capabilities with Syensqo’s material technologies, our partnership is positioned to create long-term value for the aerospace industry. We look forward to deepening our collaboration and reinforcing supply chain stability together.
Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates in 30 countries.
Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and healthcare applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
Learn more at www.syensqo.com.
Toray is a global leader in advanced materials innovation, comprising more than 300 affiliated companies and approximately 48,000 employees worldwide. Since 1926, Toray has continuously expanded its business portfolio—from Fibers & Textiles, to Resins & Chemicals, Films, Electronics & Information Materials, Carbon Fiber Composite Materials, Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products, as well as Water Treatment & Environment. April 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Toray’s founding. In line with its Corporate Philosophy, “Contributing to society through the creation of new value with innovative ideas, technologies and products,” the company will commit to delivering fundamental solutions to global-scale challenges.
Learn more at www.toray.com.
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The aerospace and defense materials market continues to face unique sustainability and performance-related demands for aviation materials. For over 50 years, Syensqo scientists have worked closely with our customers to develop aerospace composites for some of the most complex and unique challenges in the aerospace industry. Our aircraft materials are delivering the performance and manufacturing requirements of aerospace and defense customers around the world.