Albany International Corp was founded in Rochester, NH, in 1895. The Company’s products and technologies help make paper smoother, tissue softer, and aircraft engines and structures lighter. Albany operates through two core business segments: Machine Clothing & Albany Engineered Composites (AEC). The Machine Clothing (MC) segment supplies permeable and impermeable belts used in the manufacture of paper, paperboard, tissue and towel, pulp, nonwovens, fiber cement and several other industrial applications. The Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) segment provides highly engineered, advanced composite structures to customers in the commercial and defense aerospace industries.