Toray Composite Materials America, Inc.

Toray Composite Materials America, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of advanced composite materials headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, supplies carbon fiber, prepreg tape, and epoxy composite materials to federal agencies as both a prime contractor (52% of recent awards) and a subcontractor (48%), competing on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

The company's capability portfolio centers on specialized composite raw materials for aerospace and defense applications: carbon fiber tow and tape in multiple widths, epoxy prepreg materials, and slit-tape composites. Representative prime work includes a $31,830 firm-fixed-price purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center in July 2023 for T1100 carbon fiber composite materials to support research and development at NASA centers; a $54,259 purchase order from Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center in May 2023 for 300 pounds of unidirectional carbon fiber prepreg and 150 square meters of carbon fabric with specifications tailored to naval aviation platforms; and a $246,489 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency's Strategic Materials office in March 2023 for polyacrylonitrile carbon fiber storage and rotation services running through March 2028 at Toray's Tacoma facility. Most recently, NASA Shared Services Center awarded a $29,150 sole-source purchase order on July 22, 2026, for 265 pounds of T1100SC-12k-50C carbon fiber for filament winding applications at Marshall Space Flight Center, with October 22, 2026 completion.

Customer concentration is diffuse across federal agencies but anchored by defense and civilian space platforms. The top five customers by award count account for 81% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Army (18 awards) and NASA Shared Services Center (10 awards, $185 thousand combined potential value). By potential value, the Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials office leads with 2 awards worth $246 thousand combined, followed by NASA Shared Services Center at $185 thousand, Naval Air Systems Command at $114 thousand, NASA Langley at $67 thousand, and NASA Glenn at $36 thousand. The split between award-count and value rankings reflects the Strategic Materials contract's high ceiling relative to smaller tactical purchase orders for materials.

Toray's subcontractor footprint centers on Bell Textron, the prime on the Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, where Toray has supplied carbon and epoxy tape and fabric in multiple widths (0.5 inches, 1.5 inches, 12 inches, 38–60 inches wide) across seventeen sub-awards since August 2024 supporting the Capability Set Three pre-ACAT 1C aircraft development. The company also subcontracts to J.F. Taylor, Inc. (carbon fiber for composite winding cases) and Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (composite raw materials for blast-loading test panels). Three sub-awards under the Space Launch System Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) in 2024 for carbon and graphite product manufacturing and composite materials indicate NASA deep-space vehicle exposure. Recent activity has grown substantially — two awards in 2021 to seventeen in 2025 — with the defense and space composite material base positioning Toray as a specialized materials supplier rather than a systems integrator, and two awards (combined potential value $276 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete or expiration risk.