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Engineered Non Woven Textiles

In conjunction with the Andrew Industries Textile Division, BMP manufactures and converts technical needle felts and nonwoven textiles for a wide range of industrial applications.

Needle felts are produced by mechanically interlocking fibres in a process called needle punching on a needle loom machine. Needle felts are a homogeneous structure of fibres constructed by entanglement. This is achieved by interlocking the fibres with barbed needles during the manufacturing process. The result is a uniformly dense, flexible product having excellent mechanical characteristics.

Nonwoven textiles are fabrics that are produced by mechanically, chemically, or thermally interlocking layers of fibres, filaments, or yarns. Thermal bonding is a technique for bonding fibres of a web using a conductive or convective heating method. For special cases the nonwoven may be hydro entangled, spun bond, or membrane composite.

Depending upon your specific requirements BMP will design a felt utilizing various fibre chemistries, fibre sizes, felt construction methods, and oil viscosities.

Manufacturing and Specialist Finishing Equipment:

• High Precision Weighing Hoppers
• Carding Lines
• Needle Punch Machines
• In-Line Metal Detection
• Traversing Mass Measurement Devices
• 'A' Frames
• Calendaring
• Heat Setting
• Singeing
• Glazing
• Specialist Chemical Finishing
• Laminating
• Precision Slitting
• Automated Die Stamping
• Band Knives
• Bespoke Felt Roller Wrapping Machines
• Bespoke Felt Oil Impregnation Machines