# GE Aviation building $200M CMC raw material facility in Huntsville, Alabama

GE Aviation is constructing a full-rate production raw material facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to produce silicon carbide ceramic fiber and CMC prepreg. The investment is over $200 million, and the facility is expected to produce up to 20 metric tons of CMC material per year.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2017-02-22
- Where: Huntsville, Alabama, United States
- Value: $200.0M
- Starts operating: Mar 2019
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: 20 metric tons per year
- Products: silicon carbide ceramic fiber, CMC prepreg
- Sectors: [Aerospace Components](https://endata.com/sectors/aerospace-components.md)

## Companies

- [GE Aviation](https://endata.com/companies/1647.md)

## Sources

- [geaerospace.com](https://www.geaerospace.com/news/articles/manufacturing/ge-aviation-building-us-blueprint-industrialize-cmcs), 2017-02-22: "The engineering and construction teams are on track to start placing process equipment by October."
- [businessalabama.com](https://businessalabama.com/advanced-aviation-plants-taking-shape/), 2017-04-03: "GE Aviation's $200 million investment in Huntsville is starting to take shape after a groundbreaking last June, with company officials recently estimating that the first factory will begin getting its process equipment by October and be operational by the summer of 2018."

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