A&P Technology is a seventh generation, family-owned, world-leading producer of precision braided textiles. A&P’s leadership is the result of commitment to its customers and an ethic of hard work and ingenuity. We have successfully combined these qualities with our modern facilities, state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies, and industry-leading research and development capabilities.

In 1986, A&P Technology began as an R&D division of Atkins & Pearce, America’s largest and oldest braiding company and a dominant force in braid markets worldwide. From the beginning, A&P concentrated its research efforts on the development of state-of-the-art braiding machinery aimed to further the use of braid within the composites industry. Braid’s steady growth within the composites market led to A&P’s incorporation as a wholly owned subsidiary in 1995, and eventually to independent ownership in July 1997.

A&P Technology has taken manufacturing technology to areas previously unthinkable through the in-house design and manufacture of the world’s largest and most technologically advanced braiding machinery. This machinery includes a line of Megabraiders, the largest braiding machinery in the world, ranging from 172 carrier machines up to 800 carrier machines. The Megabraiders meet the composite designer’s needs for braided reinforcements of large diameters with small unit cells.

The ability to design our braiding machinery in-house allows A&P to remain at the forefront of braiding technology. Our customers are offered the distinct advantage of customized products with a quick turnaround at the lowest possible costs. A&P’s production braids are used in a variety of applications ranging from automobile side impact airbags to jet engine stator vanes to hockey sticks to prosthetics. Current R&D programs involve the use of braid in structures of unprecedented scale, such as jet engine fan cases, rocket nozzles and commercial transport airframes.

The basis of A&P Technology’s success as a company comes from its investment in people who are passionate about braid, its development of machinery that is the most technologically advanced in the world, and its desire to propagate the entrepreneurial spirit from which it originated.