Needle Board Repair

Do you have boards with bad rubber or bowed boards? Omega Engineered Technologies, a sister company of Nonwoven Tools, can help.

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Omega offers the following services:

  1. Omega needles boards. This includes painting, stenciling, and needling boards for new installations. Repairing boards with needle damage, whether they need 100 or 5,000 needles. Quick response for major crashes. Rotation programs.
  2. Omega recovers boards. Do not throw away a board with a worn or damaged covering. Omega can recover boards with polyurethane, nylon, and other types of plastic. This can be done for about 1/3 the cost of a new board.
  3. Omega can straighten boards. Over time, boards often develop a bow that makes it difficult to put them in the loom. Omega can straighten most boards.
  4. Omega can clean up the edges of old boards. If you have aluminum boards that have worn edges, we can make them usable again.

We can also provide you with a great Microsoft Access database program for keeping track of all your needle boards and documenting repairs to them.

Need a quote?

Omega’s services are marketed through the Louis P. Batson Company. Please contact Chris Smith at 864-242-5262 for a quote.

Removing Impacted Needles

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This video provides instruction on how to remove impacted needles from needle boards.
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These are before and after pictures of a worn Dilo board. We welded the board, milled the weld to size, and cleaned up the board. We did three of these.
This is a picture of a Dilo Hyperpunch board. We recently needled 12 of these boards for a total of 97,000 needles. Not only did we needle the boards, but the needles all had to have their cranks oriented. What a job!
These boards were sent to me to have the worn holes drilled out so plastic inserts could be placed in the boards. The board on the right is the before and the one on the left is after drilling. Now they never have to worry about the holes wearing out. Of course this only works if the boards are of a low density. Basically less than 3000 needles per meter.

This is an older Fehrer board recovered with hard plastic on the side of needle entry.
This is an Asselin board recovered with urethane on the needle exit side.
A customer sent us a set of 12 brand new Dilo boards. We painted, stenciled, and needled them.

We also built a custom shipping/storage container on wheels for the 12 boards.
Seven boards (46,427 needles) done in one weekend.
Before and after picture of boards from a Taiwanese loom. These are difficult to work with since needles tend to become impacted in these boards.