# Park Aerospace Corp. qualifies major expansion of Newton, Kansas facilities

Park Aerospace Corp. announced that its largest customer approved and qualified the company's major expansion of its Newton, Kansas facilities for production. The expansion, costing approximately $20 million, doubled the facility size to about 90,000 square feet, and first production run occurred on April 19, 2023.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2023-04-24
- Where: Newton, Kansas, United States
- Value: $20.0M
- Starts operating: 19 Apr 2023
- Status: completed
- Capacity: 90,000 square feet of additional manufacturing, laboratory and office space
- Products: aerospace composite materials
- Sectors: [Aerospace Components](https://endata.com/sectors/aerospace-components.md)

## Companies

- [Park Aerospace Corp.](https://endata.com/companies/41421.md)

## Sources

- [parkaerospace.com](https://parkaerospace.com/press-releases/park-aerospace-corp-announces-its-largest-customer-has-approved-and-qualified-the-companys-major-expansion-for-production/), 2023-04-24: "Park Aerospace Corp. announced that, on April 5, 2023, the Company’s largest customer qualified and fully approved the Company’s major expansion of its Newton, Kansas facilities for production on all of the customer’s aircraft programs."
- [compositesworld.com](https://www.compositesworld.com/news/park-aerospace-is-approved-qualified-for-facility-production-expansion), 2023-05-19: "Our great production people have been working 60 hour or more weeks on a regular basis for quite a while."

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