# Toray Advanced Textiles opens $80M airbag fabric plant in Jalisco, Mexico

Toray Advanced Textiles opened a new $80 million plant in El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico, to produce nylon fiber and textile for automotive airbags. The plant will employ 173 workers and have an annual capacity of 10,000 tons of nylon fiber.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-02-01
- Where: El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico
- Value: $80.0M
- Jobs: 173
- Starts operating: 1 Feb 2018
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 10,000 tons of nylon fiber per year
- Products: nylon fiber for airbags, airbag textile
- Sectors: [Automotive Components](https://endata.com/sectors/automotive-components.md), [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [Toray Advanced Textiles](https://endata.com/companies/29768.md)

## Sources

- [yarnsandfibers.com](https://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/textile-news/toray-advanced-textile-company-opens-new-usd-plant-in-jalisco/), 2018-02-01: "Japanese Toray Advanced Textiles manufacturing firm dedicated to the manufacture of fibers for the production of airbags in the automotive industry has announced the opening of their new $80 million USD plant in El Salto, Jalisco."

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