Atkins & Pearce, the North American expert in braiding and other precision engineered textiles, is about to weave its ways into its third century of operation. Its commercial achievements span across the machine, industrial, atomic age and the space age.
Meaningful advances in many industries would not have been made over the past 200 years without Atkins & Pearce providing some critical textile component. From Model A to today’s most advanced automobiles, from the earliest long-distance telegraph to today’s technically complex satellites, Atkins & Pearce’s textile embodiments are as near as the favourite armchair and as far forward as the latest advancements in medicine and aerospace.
“We strive to be viewed not as a supplier of parts but as a highly reliable long-term partner willing to commit capital, expertise and excellence in execution. By doing this, we materially enhance our customers’ ability to achieve their growth strategy faster and with less risk”, says Jeb Head, Atkins & Pearce Owner and President.
Today, Atkins & Pearce’s advanced, high-capacity footprint generates an annual output of just over 10 billion feet or enough narrow technical textiles to wrap the earth 76 times. The company is most known for its long history of delivering dependable high quality textile components. It is viewed as a technology enabler across a wide range of technical textile platforms and is counted on for its vast textile know-how wherever the industry intersects with high performance fibres.
This summer, more than 21,000 industrial textile machines and almost 250 dedicated employees will power Atkins & Pearce past the bicentennial mark of its manufacturing in America.
The group’s limits in converting fibre is hard to define. However, the primary markets the company supports are electrical motor and generator manufacturing, automotive manufacturing, aerospace design & production, sports & recreation, industrial motive power, protective sleeving solutions, custom wicking systems, precision yarn packaging and high strength / lightweight textile systems.