______________________________________________________________________________________________ Exel
Composites
Exel is headquartered in Finland and now employs more than 600 professionals around the globe, with sales, manufacturing, or R & D facilities in the UK, the US, Finland, Austria, China, and India. The business was established in 1960, by three chemists who began producing electric detonator caps, followed by carbon fiber brushes, and then, ski poles. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Exel continued to expand, and in the 2000s, the sporting division was sold to focus on business-to-business sales. In the following decade, Exel consolidated its market position by acquiring the Chinese company, Nanjing
Jianhui Composite Materials, and Diversified Structural Composites in the US.
Heini Kloster, Product Manager for conductor cores, elaborates on the company’ s evolution:“ With a long history in composites manufacturing, we produce many different profiles using continuous production methods like pultrusion and pull-winding and we’ ve grown to be a publicly listed company with global coverage. We’ ve always served a wide range of industries like transportation, buildings, infrastructure, machinery, defense, and energy. However, in recent years, we’ ve seen significant growth in the energy
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