Company Profile

Company Overview

Albany International is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company.

Founded in 1895, the Company is headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire USA, and employs approximately 5,000 people worldwide. Our manufacturing operations are strategically located to serve our global customers.

Albany International trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIN and is a component of the S&P SmallCap 600 and Russell 2000 Indices.

Core Competency
The Company's core business is the world's largest producer of custom-designed engineered fabrics and process belts, called paper machine clothing (PMC). These consumable fabrics are used to manufacture all grades of paper from lightweight paper to heavyweight containerboard. PMC fabrics are essential to the papermaking process and are manufactured from monofilaments, multifilaments, and synthetic fiber materials.


Strategic Diversification
In its family of emerging businesses, Albany applies the technologies of paper machine clothing to the development of unique materials and structures for a variety of other industries. These include composite structures for the aerospace industry, belting for corrugator and tannery applications, high-performance industrial doors, specialty fabrics for the nonwovens, pulp, building products, textile, and fiber cement industries and PrimaLoft patented "synthetic down" insulation for the technical outerwear and home furnishings markets.