Albany International Corp. engages in textiles and materials processing. It operates through the following segments: Machine Clothing and Albany Engineered Composites. The Machine Clothing 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 Engineered Composites segment provides engineered, advanced composite structures based on proprietary technology to customers in the aerospace and defense industries. The company was founded on March 8, 1895 and is headquartered in Rochester, NH.