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Hexcel Composites Ltd • Duxford, Cambridge CB22 4QD, United Kingdom • Telephone +44 (0)1223 833141

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HEXCEL today announced that it has received a 2012 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. Hexcel maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2011, to Sept. 30, 2012.

"We are proud to be recognized by our largest customer for superior supply performance," said Mike Canario, Hexcel VP and General Manager for the Americas. "Hexcel continues its strength in operational excellence which enables us to maintain a superior performance status at Boeing. Due to our talented employees and innovative technologies, Hexcel will continue to deliver the highest quality products."

Hexcel Corporation is a leading advanced composites company. It develops, manufactures and markets lightweight, high-performance structural materials, including carbon fibers, reinforcements for composites, prepregs, honeycomb, matrix systems, adhesives and composite structures, used in commercial aerospace, space and defense and industrial applications.

For more information on the Boeing Performance Excellence Award, visit http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/doingbiz/supplier_portal/bpea.html.

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Contacts
Europe, Asia Pacific
Rachel Owen
+44 1223 838370
rachel.owen@hexcel.com

Americas
Jenny Gendron
(925) 551-4900 x-4639
jenny.gendron@hexcel.com

22 January 2013

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