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Woonsocket, RI – 2/12/2025 – Bouckaert Industrial Textiles (BIT), a leader in high-performance non-woven solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its latest innovation: a cutting-edge carding, cross-lapping, and needle punch line designed to enhance the production of fiberglass-based materials. This advanced manufacturing line significantly expands BIT’s capabilities, enabling the production of 100% fiberglass non-wovens as well as fiberglass/polyester and fiberglass/polypropylene blends. Additionally, the system can incorporate bi-component or low-melt fibers, allowing for the creation of moldable non-woven materials.
With an impressive 125-inch width, this new line enhances BIT’s capacity to support fiberglass-based insulation, acoustical materials, and composite applications, further solidifying the company’s position as an industry leader in advanced non-woven solutions.
Expanding the Temp-Sonic™ Product Line
The addition of this manufacturing line strengthens the Temp-Sonic™ family of fiberglass-based products, which are widely recognized for their high-temperature insulation and superior acoustic and thermal performance. These materials are engineered for precision fabrication and conversion, including lamination, die-cutting, molding, and impregnation processes.
Temp-Sonic™ products are used in a wide range of demanding applications, including:
- Automotive: Dash insulators, engine-side acoustic absorbers, underbody shields
- Industrial: Heat shield cores, thermal insulators, battery insulation
- HVAC & Appliances: Insulation for heating and cooling systems, high-performance appliance insulation
- Infrastructure: Cure-in-place (CIPP) pipe liners, composite substrates
Customizable Solutions for Performance-Driven Industries
With this latest investment, Bouckaert Industrial Textiles is uniquely positioned to develop custom-engineered non-woven materials tailored to specific customer applications. The new line offers:
- Versatile thickness options, ranging from 0.1” to 1”
- Weight variations from 225 gsm to 1350 gsm in-line, with up to 4750 gsm achievable through additional needling
- Enhanced production efficiency and scalability to meet evolving industry needs
For over 40 years, Bouckaert Industrial Textiles has been at the forefront of non-woven innovation, delivering tailored solutions for high-performance applications. Whether you require a moldable acoustical absorber, a durable substrate for aerogels or chemical treatments, or a flexible, high-temperature heat shield core, Temp-Sonic™ delivers proven performance and reliability.
Learn More
To explore BIT’s expanded capabilities, the Temp-Sonic™ product line, and how we can develop custom fiberglass non-wovens for your needs, visit www.bitfelt.com.
Bouckaert Industrial Textiles is excited to announce the addition of three new pieces of nonwoven manufacturing equipment. This equipment will be coming online in January 2020.
Our white, synthetic fiber production line will see the addition of two new critical pieces of equipment. First, the line is getting a brand new Bematic card. This will improve our quality control and blending capabilities. Additionally, a new up-stroke needle-loom from Shoou Shyng will be added in-line. When combined with the existing down-stroke loom, we will now be able to needle from both sides. Specifically targeting synthetic and glass fiber felt products, this needlepunch line will efficiently produce goods from 6oz per sq yard to 65oz per sq yard in varying thicknesses.
In addition to the improvements to the white line, a second, new Shoou Shyng needle-loom has been added offline to augment our production of grey and colored nonwovens.
Overall, these improvements will allow us to phase out some older equipment and expand our capabilities when it comes to weight, width, and control for our products.
These new capital investments, totaling $1.9 million, will position Bouckaert to be able to continue to meet the current market needs as well as opening access to a number of new markets we plan to enter into in the future.
If you have any questions regarding our new equipment or how this will change our capabilities, please reach out to our Business Development and Marketing Manager, Alex d’Anjou (adanjou@hbrickle.com).
Bouckaert Industrial Textiles (BIT), a roll goods producer of diverse nonwovens to the thermal and acoustical insulation, equestrian, automotive, specialty filtration, vibration dampening, green-roof and industrial markets announced today that it has acquired a new, 3.4 meter wide, airlay line from Laroche S.A. and TechnoPlants srl. The line is due to be delivered starting in January and be online in the beginning of the second quarter of 2017, making material primarily for the thermal and acoustical insulation markets with additional capacity being geared towards specialty filtration and conveyor belting.
At over $3 million, projected to manufacture 8 to 10 million lbs of material per year, and adding 15 new specialized manufacturing jobs, this is the largest such purchase in Bouckaert’s 28 year history. When asked “Why now?” for such a purchase BIT’s President, Max Brickle (also President of the parent company The Brickle Group), stated “We originally looked into bringing on this capacity due to our current client’s growing business and requests for material we could not supply with our current lines. It was this desire to support our client’s needs that really made the decision.”
Bouckaert has confirmed that their new line’s capacity has already drawn a lot of attention from various industries and companies. Many of these companies are looking to leverage Bouckaert’s extensive record on capability and quality control with its geographical position in the US northeast, allowing them to reduce shipping costs while increasing the quality and consistency of their products.
When asked “What’s next for Bouckaert after getting this line up and running?” Mr. Brickle just smiled and said “The future. Give us a call if you want to discuss it.”
