# Bouckaert Industrial Textiles adds new airlay line for $3M

Bouckaert Industrial Textiles is adding a new 3.4-meter-wide airlay line from Laroche and TechnoPlants, representing an investment of over $3 million, to add 8-10 million pounds of annual capacity and 15 jobs.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-01-04
- Where: Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States
- Value: $3.00M
- Jobs: 15
- Starts operating: Apr 2017
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 8 to 10 million pounds per year
- Products: nonwovens for thermal and acoustical insulation, specialty filtration, conveyor belting
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [Bouckaert Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/companies/21203.md)
- [The Brickle Group](https://endata.com/companies/21235.md) (partner)
- [Laroche](https://endata.com/companies/21248.md) (supplier)
- [TechnoPlants](https://endata.com/companies/21249.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [nonwovens-industry.com](https://www.nonwovens-industry.com/breaking-news/bouckaert-industrial-textiles-announces-expansion/), 2017-01-04: "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."
- [pbn.com](https://pbn.com/bouckaert-expanding-production-capacity-in-woonsocket119537/), 2017-01-05: "The air-lay line, valued at more than $3 million, will allow the company to manufacture 8 to 10 million pounds of material annually."
- [nonwovensnews.com](https://www.nonwovensnews.com/manufacturing-news/13459-bouckaert-expands-airlay-capacity), 2017-01-05: "Bouckaert Industrial Textiles (BIT), a US producer of nonwovens for the thermal insulation, automotive, filtration, and industrial markets, is adding a new 3.4 metre wide airlay line from two European nonwovens machinery manufacturers in Laroche and TechnoPlants."
- [textileworld.com](https://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/nonwovens-technical-textiles/2017/01/new-air-lay-line-coming-in-april-2017-to-bouckaert-industrial-textiles/), 2017-01-06: "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."

---
Data from Endata (https://endata.com/). Announcements are summarized from public sources and may be incomplete; check the linked originals.