Making Composites
Better With Braid.

A&P Technology is changing the way composite parts are made.

We are the world’s leading producer of braided fabrics, preforms, and sleevings. Our team works closely with our customers to develop optimal composite solutions, enabling reduced costs of manufacture while increasing performance. Our mission is to provide application specific, high quality braided materials to meet our customer’s demands for part performance, high rate and sustainability. As the world’s largest braider, we are kind of a big deal. And the best is yet to come.

Our braided product forms:

Customized solutions to fit your every need

A&P Technology has the personnel, the machinery, and the experience to provide an optimized material solution for your application. Customizing reinforcements for specific applications optimizes the performance and the manufacturing of composite parts.

braided biaxial fiberglass sleeving

Better with Braid

Braid is quickly becoming the reinforcement of choice in the engineering world. Because all the fibers within a braided structure are continuous and mechanically locked, braid has a natural mechanism that evenly distributes load throughout the structure. This means that braid is the stronger, tougher, more flexible alternative to woven composites.

A&P Technology is the world leader in braiding technology and we continue to push the boundaries of possibility every day. If you’re looking for an efficient and economical way to optimize your design, braid could be the key to maximizing your product performance.


Featured A&P Products:

QISO quasi-isotropic carbon fabric for composites
Bimax +/-45 degree carbon fabric for composites
Sharx biaxial braided sleevings for composites
TapeShapes braided thermoplastic fabrics

Why Braid:

A&P’s team works closely with its customers at the design level to create braided solutions that optimize use of material and manufacture methods, providing cost savings and minimizing waste. By providing net shape and oriented materials, A&P supports its customers’ desire for sustainable, innovative products that enable efficient methods of manufacture.

Whether it’s a conformable sleeving, off the roll 45° fabric, a unique quasi-isotropic fabric or a net shape preform, A&P’s braided solutions are designed to support the need for efficient, high volume manufacture.

By creating braided architectures that follow the load path and provide impact resistance and high fatigue strength, A&P’s products enable superior performance requiring less material usage. See case studies 

A&P prides itself on its ability to listen to the customers’ needs, propose a braided solution, iterate if needed and then produce custom reinforcements in a short period of time. Customization is second nature to us. Let us help optimize your composite application.

Made better with braid:

braided composites for air mobility
braided composites for automotive
braided composites for aerospace