Cambium (El Segundo, Calif., U.S.) has announced the next phase of expansion for its U.S. manufacturing base: a 60,000-square-foot facility in Mooresville, North Carolina. This expansion will quadruple the domestic production capacity of its SHD (Sleaford, U.K.) composites manufacturing division, which it acquired just over 6 months ago. The new SHD Mooresville rapid manufacturing center will be designed from the ground up to deliver fast customer response times at scale, and will be vertically integrated across resin mixing, film, prepreg, testing and development.
This expansion, which will start to come online later in 2026, is the latest move in Cambium’s global buildout to supply advanced materials across defense, space and aviation, high-performance motorsports and every other industry that demands innovation and a rapid and reliable supply chain. It follows commissioning of advanced prepreg and film-coating lines at SHD’s U.K. facility earlier this year to significantly expand production capacity.
According to Cambium, the combined prepreg capacity across all global sites is part of a coordinated scale-up of secure manufacturing capacity across the U.S., U.K. and EU. It also reflects Cambium’s broader growth trajectory: building the Western world’s dominant advanced materials platform and industrial base that the next generation of critical systems will be built upon.
“Demand for high-performance advanced materials is accelerating faster than traditional supply chains can absorb,” says Cambium co-founder and CEO Simon Waddington. “Programs that once measured progress in years now demand weeks. So, the companies redefining defense, aerospace, space and other high-performance industries need suppliers who can move at the same speed.”
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