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Shawmut Snapshot
Deliver the world’s most innovative material solutions to meet the unique needs of each and every customer we serve.
We do this by using material expertise and unique market insights to deliver compelling innovation. By pursuing process excellence to deliver world class quality, values, and service. By reaching across corporate boundaries to create value through novel customer and supplier partnerships. And by being an empowered and inspired organization.
We do this by using material expertise and unique market insights to deliver compelling innovation. By pursuing process excellence to deliver world class quality, values, and service. By reaching across corporate boundaries to create value through novel customer and supplier partnerships. And by being an empowered and inspired organization.
Founded in 1916, Shawmut Corporation is the world’s leading provider of innovative, high-performance soft-material solutions. Shawmut is a global leader in advanced materials, textile manufacturing, and lamination process innovation across the automotive, medical, filtration, military, protective, and technical lamination solutions markets, and is the largest producer of laminated warp knit automotive headliner fabrics in the world.
The company provides custom-engineered materials such as performance textiles and coated and laminated fabrics for demanding applications. Shawmut Corporation’s world-class team of applications and materials engineers works with customers to define detailed performance requirements and leverages deep expertise and decades of application experience to design a value-driven material solution for the need.
Markets Served:
Automotive: Shawmut is a leading global supplier of automotive interior fabrics and the world’s largest supplier of warp-knit fabrics for headlining and other overhead systems components. Shawmut’s best-of-market application engineering, program management and global production footprint make us a preferred supply partner to global OEMs and tier one automotive suppliers. And with our breakthrough design vision and cutting-edge technology developments like Aeroknit™, Neoluxe™, InfinKnit™ Spacer Knit and our full line of Terra™ recycled content fabrics, we are partnering with our OEM customers to shape the future of the automotive interior.
Technical Solutions: We leverage our advanced process technologies and technical fabric expertise to deliver custom-engineered materials solutions to solve the complex challenges industries face internationally. Our global team believes that no challenge is too great, and we have a long history of solving a wide variety of industry needs through dynamic and innovative textile approaches. We are leading innovators in materials science, working with a wide range of fabrics, nylons, foams, polyesters, polyurethanes, thermoplastics, cellular sponges, and more. We field state of the art equipment, from flame laminators to rotogravure printers, to ensure the best workmanship possible.
Filtration: Shawmut creates filtration media for both liquid and air applications. As an example, Shawmut is proud to be part of the worldwide push for innovative textile water filtration technologies as a producer of tricot knit technical fabrics used as permeate carriers in salt and brackish water reverse-osmosis filtration processes and systems. Shawmut creates liquid filtration fabrics for the food, natural gas, pharmaceutical and dairy industries. Our custom-formulated meltblown air filtration media is produced in-house using the world’s most advanced process technology and is exceptionally efficient for its weight and thickness. The result is Shawmut MB™, a filter media other mask manufacturers are coming to us to make for them due to its high filtration properties, low air resistance, and light weight.
Medical Devices: Many of the medical device industry’s leading OEMs trust Shawmut with their highest challenges for medical composites and components. Shawmut is a significant and critical supplier of non-woven, woven, knit, and laminated advanced materials and composites for incorporation into a wide variety of medical devices, orthopedic equipment, medical fabrics, and gowns. Our advanced process technologies include the expertise to laminate thin barrier films to various substrates — providing the highest barrier protection while maintaining the natural high-performance wear and comfort properties of the substrates and films, no matter the application.
Military & Protective: Shawmut produces added-value laminated components for a diverse set of ultra-high spec protective technical fabric applications, such as flame, chemical and biological protection, military applications, and ultra-high-standard utility workwear. One of our core competencies is the development and production of laminated hard and softshell materials capable of providing waterproof breathable functionality. We utilize PVC/nonwovens and inherently flame-resistant fibers structured into woven technical fabrics or knits and combined with selectively permeable membranes, constructed with exacting tolerances and consistent output.
Health & Safety: In addition to its Protex™ lines of N95 respirators and AAMI-level PPE gowns, Shawmut is a supplier of woven, knit, and laminated medical fabrics for critical OEM medical applications such as medical gowns, DVT prevention devices, and a host of technical fabric solutions in the healthcare and personal safety space. Shawmut’s advanced lamination platform has attained next-level results for lamination of thin barrier films down to 15 microns with the breathability and comfort customers demand, while achieving up to AAMI Level 4 results.
The company provides custom-engineered materials such as performance textiles and coated and laminated fabrics for demanding applications. Shawmut Corporation’s world-class team of applications and materials engineers works with customers to define detailed performance requirements and leverages deep expertise and decades of application experience to design a value-driven material solution for the need.
Markets Served:
Automotive: Shawmut is a leading global supplier of automotive interior fabrics and the world’s largest supplier of warp-knit fabrics for headlining and other overhead systems components. Shawmut’s best-of-market application engineering, program management and global production footprint make us a preferred supply partner to global OEMs and tier one automotive suppliers. And with our breakthrough design vision and cutting-edge technology developments like Aeroknit™, Neoluxe™, InfinKnit™ Spacer Knit and our full line of Terra™ recycled content fabrics, we are partnering with our OEM customers to shape the future of the automotive interior.
Technical Solutions: We leverage our advanced process technologies and technical fabric expertise to deliver custom-engineered materials solutions to solve the complex challenges industries face internationally. Our global team believes that no challenge is too great, and we have a long history of solving a wide variety of industry needs through dynamic and innovative textile approaches. We are leading innovators in materials science, working with a wide range of fabrics, nylons, foams, polyesters, polyurethanes, thermoplastics, cellular sponges, and more. We field state of the art equipment, from flame laminators to rotogravure printers, to ensure the best workmanship possible.
Filtration: Shawmut creates filtration media for both liquid and air applications. As an example, Shawmut is proud to be part of the worldwide push for innovative textile water filtration technologies as a producer of tricot knit technical fabrics used as permeate carriers in salt and brackish water reverse-osmosis filtration processes and systems. Shawmut creates liquid filtration fabrics for the food, natural gas, pharmaceutical and dairy industries. Our custom-formulated meltblown air filtration media is produced in-house using the world’s most advanced process technology and is exceptionally efficient for its weight and thickness. The result is Shawmut MB™, a filter media other mask manufacturers are coming to us to make for them due to its high filtration properties, low air resistance, and light weight.
Medical Devices: Many of the medical device industry’s leading OEMs trust Shawmut with their highest challenges for medical composites and components. Shawmut is a significant and critical supplier of non-woven, woven, knit, and laminated advanced materials and composites for incorporation into a wide variety of medical devices, orthopedic equipment, medical fabrics, and gowns. Our advanced process technologies include the expertise to laminate thin barrier films to various substrates — providing the highest barrier protection while maintaining the natural high-performance wear and comfort properties of the substrates and films, no matter the application.
Military & Protective: Shawmut produces added-value laminated components for a diverse set of ultra-high spec protective technical fabric applications, such as flame, chemical and biological protection, military applications, and ultra-high-standard utility workwear. One of our core competencies is the development and production of laminated hard and softshell materials capable of providing waterproof breathable functionality. We utilize PVC/nonwovens and inherently flame-resistant fibers structured into woven technical fabrics or knits and combined with selectively permeable membranes, constructed with exacting tolerances and consistent output.
Health & Safety: In addition to its Protex™ lines of N95 respirators and AAMI-level PPE gowns, Shawmut is a supplier of woven, knit, and laminated medical fabrics for critical OEM medical applications such as medical gowns, DVT prevention devices, and a host of technical fabric solutions in the healthcare and personal safety space. Shawmut’s advanced lamination platform has attained next-level results for lamination of thin barrier films down to 15 microns with the breathability and comfort customers demand, while achieving up to AAMI Level 4 results.
