BMW's partner in this venture is SGL Carbon.

宝马这次风险投资的伙伴是西格里碳素集团。

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The joint venture of SGL and BMW produces these carbon fibers, 10 times thinner than a human hair, in the northwestern United States.

在美国西北部，西格里碳素集团和宝马合资生产的这些碳纤维比人的头发还细十倍。

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Based in Wiesbaden, SGL was once owned by the Hoechst chemicals company and is currently Europe's sole manufacturer of carbon fiber materials.

西格里碳素集团位于威斯巴登，曾属于郝斯特化学工业公司，现在是欧洲唯一的碳纤维材料生产商。

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But this is very expensive, so to cut costs SGL Automotive uses threads with 100, 000 strands.

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If the economy doesn't roll over, SGL Carbon is too strong not to bounce back.

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"We are not producing a woven fabric, " says Dennis Bauman, head of business development at SGL Automotive.

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