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ENGINEERED FIBERS TECHNOLOGY (EFT)
COMPLETES MOVE TO NEW LOCATION / EXPANDS CAPABILITIES
Shelton, CT, September 1, 2011- Engineered Fibers Technology (EFT) announced that they have completed their move to a new facility at 88 Long Hill Cross Road, Shelton, CT. The new location provides for more efficient and expanded production facilities for their precision short-cut fiber operations and their customer support / R&D laboratory services.
EFT will be able to offer customers expanded capabilities for tow and filament preparation, cutting and packaging. New cutting rooms are set up specifically for processing carbon fibers and other technical fibers. EFT’s expanded research and development laboratory facilities will devote equipment to customer support and applications development, as well as development of EFTecTM Nanofibrillated Fibers and SpectracarbTM Porous Carbon Gas Diffusion Media (GDM) materials. The new location also contains additional engineering office space and additional space as needed for future expansion.
“This is our third location in Shelton since the company was founded in 1998”, said Robert Evans, Managing Director, “and each of our moves has permitted us to significantly expand both our facilities and our ability to offer customers a wider range of products, support services and technical development of new products to meet specific needs, and to better support our strategic supplier partners.”
“Our new facilities give us the ability to better meet the needs of our customers by offering expanded processing and short cutting capabilities that now range from small-scale processing of fibers from less than one-pound to truck load production, along with custom packaging of a wider range of fibers in lengths of less than one-millimeter to over 75 mm”, said Edward Battistelli, Production Manager.
“EFT has always understood that working in technical partnership with our customers and suppliers is our most important mission. With better manufacturing and laboratory facilities and an expanded technical staff, our ability to serve our customers’ development needs is unique”, noted David Merrill, Sales and Marketing Director.
EFT is a high technology fibers, materials and services company that produces short-cut fibers and EFTecTM nanofibrillated fibers for use in technical wet-laid papers, engineered materials, and other applications. SpectracarbTM porous carbon GDM is manufactured in a range of thicknesses for both fuel cells and electrolyzers as electrically conductive / high performance electrodes.
For additional information about EFT, visit www.EFTfibers.com,
or call 203 922 1810.