TOKYO -- Aircraft materials production has started to pull out of a pandemic stall for Japanese suppliers including Toray Industries and Teijin, emboldened by forecasts of passenger numbers climbing above pre-COVID levels in 2024.
Toray, the world's leading producer of carbon fiber materials for planes, plans to resume aircraft-related shipments from its plant in the U.S. state of South Carolina by the end of the year. The material goes into carbon fiber-reinforced polymers expected to be used in the wings and body of the Boeing 787.
