Teijin Fibers and Hexcel Corp Continue to Battle over FTZ

On February 1, 2021, the Foreign-Trade Zone Board published in the Federal Register (86 FR 7695) Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 38— Spartanburg County, South Carolina; Application for Production Authority; Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc.; Extension of Rebuttal Comment Period.

On December 17, 2020, the Foreign-Trade Zone Board published in the Federal Register (85 FR 81875) Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 38— Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Application for Production Authority, Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc. (Polyacrylonitrile-Based Carbon Fiber); Invitation for Public Comment on Rebuttal Submission.

On October 29, 2020, the Foreign Trade Zone Board announced Extension of Rebuttal Comment Period for Docket B-52-2020, Foreign-Trade Zone 38--Spartanburg County, South Carolina; Application for Production Authority; Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc.

On August 13, 2020, the Foreign-Trade Zone Board published in the Federal Register (85 FR 49359) Foreign-Trade Zone 38-Spartanburg County, South Carolina; Application for Production Authority; Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc. (Polyacrylonitrile-Based Carbon Fiber); Greenwood, South Carolina. [Docket 2020-52-B].

    Comments in support were filed by:

        Amplas Compounding
        Atlantic Precision Products
        Congressman Jim Banks (R., Ind., 3rd)
        Barrday Corp
        Collins Aerospace
        Continental Structual Plastics
        Congressman Jeff Duncan (R., S.C., 3rd)
        Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (R., Tenn., 3rd)
        Greenwood, S.C., Commissioners of Public Works
        Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation
        Congressman Robert Latta (R., Ohio, 5th)
        Metis Design
        Midwest Resins
        Nano-Engineered Composite aerospace STructures (NECST) Consortium
        NICCA
        Piedmont Technical College
        ready SC, a Div. of SC Tech. Col. Sys.
        Self Regional Healthcare
        Upper Savannah Workforce Development Division
        Vectorply 

    Comments in opposition were filed by:

        Congressman Mo Brooks (R., Alabama,5th), on behalf of Hexcel
        Hexcel
        Senator Doug Jones (D., Alabama), on behalf of Hexcel
        Congressman Daniel Meuser (R., Penn., 9th), on behalf of Hexcel
        Senator Richard Shelby (R., Alabama), on behalf of Hexcel
        USW Union, on behalf of Hecel 

Teijin originally filed in 2019 and was rebuffed by Hexcel, as have been other companies applying for carbon fiber Foreign-Trade Zones.