Hexagon is a Norwegian company, but its roots reach back to 1960s Lincoln.
It was here in 1963, amid the angst and uncertainty of the Cold War, that Brunswick opened a plant that made the bodies of Polaris missiles, which were topped with nuclear warheads and placed on Navy submarines.
The plant, near 27th and Superior streets, is still there today. It’s now owned by General Dynamics and makes missile and rocket bodies, pressure vessels and a number of other products.
In 2005, General Dynamics spun off Lincoln Composites, a division it had formed to make commercial products such as tanks for the oil and gas industries that are made out of composite fibers.
The company that bought it was Hexagon Composites, which formed Hexagon Lincoln, a company focused on making composite tanks for the alternative fuels industry.
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