Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), a company specializing in engineered woven fabrics, is set to showcase its innovative solutions for product design and development at the SAFE Association 61st Annual Symposium, scheduled from October 10-12 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.

They will present a range of high-performance webbings, particularly safety webbings and tapes, suitable for various sectors like military, aerospace, fire, law enforcement, industrial, and commercial fall protection personal protective equipment (PPE). BRM will also exhibit specialty items to demonstrate their capabilities.

Leveraging their extensive experience in weaving, BRM designs, engineers, and manufactures materials to enhance the performance of end products. These enhancements include improved strength, durability, and resistance to abrasion, chemicals, heat, and weather.

BRM actively engages with customers to help solve problems and foster innovation during the material selection phase of design and development. Their services encompass crafting customized innovations, comprehensive engineering and solutions, sample preparation, and full-scale manufacturing, including specialty production.

One recent notable project involved BRM collaborating with Sierra Space. In this endeavor, fiberoptic sensors were seamlessly integrated into Vectran® webbing and used in an inflatable test article, which underwent testing at NASA Johnson Space Center. This innovative approach was explored for potential utilization in inflatable habitat structures for NASA Lunar Gateway and Mars missions.

The experts from BRM will showcase their ability to design, develop, and manufacture specialized, engineered woven safety webbings and tapes. These are crafted from various specialty fibers like Nylon, Polyester, Nomex®, Kevlar®, Vectran®, PBI®, Nextel®, and more. BRM's safety webbing and tapes are well-suited for applications that demand high tenacity, abrasion resistance, flame and heat resistance, controlled elongation, and chemical resistance in specific environments.

These versatile products find applications in aerospace safety, such as shoulder straps, harness webbing, chin straps, helmet suspension, binding tapes, loop tapes, lap belts, shock-absorbing webbing, flotation device webbings, and parachute assemblies.