Industrial Solutions
Your specs or our custom solutions: Either way,
Budge can cover your protective needs
Industrial Solutions are a Budge Specialty. With more than 70 years’ experience engineering technologically advanced protective covers for an extensive range of applications, Budge Industries is a trusted partner of private industry, at both the subcontractor and OEM level. We are also a “best value” supplier to the U.S. General Services Administration and Department of Defense.
We draw upon our own expertise and leverage decades-long strategic relationships with material experts like DuPont and Polymer Group, Inc. to deliver innovative cost-effective protective solutions to our customers.
If your company is looking for cost-conscious solutions to protect high value assets, look no further than Budge Industries. A market leader in protective covering and other protective products, we are at our best when a company challenges us to find creative solutions for perplexing protection problems. With more than 70 years’ experience manufacturing protective covers, we bring not only our own expertise to the solution-finding process, but leverage the technical expertise of our vendor partners in engineering appropriate material structures to protect parts and finished products throughout the manufacturing, distribution and product lifespan.
Our core competencies include:
- Needs Determination / Solution Identification
- Custom Material Development
- Material Validation and Testing
- Rapid Prototype Development
- On-Site Prototype Testing
- On-Time / On-Budget Delivery
We are a valued and trusted supplier of protective covers for many types of industries, as well branches of the U.S. government and military.
AutoEuropa, BMW, Ford Motor Company and General Motors are among the automakers that have turned to Budge for sophisticated custom covers and protective wraps needed to protect fragile auto parts in transit and vehicles during shipment. More recently, Budge began consultations with a company seeking solutions to protect plug-in hybrid luxury sports sedans during shipping from Europe to the U.S. Beyond the auto industry, Budge has partnered with many other types of industries. Eaton Industries—a company dedicated to making more efficient use of the world’s electrical power, uses heavy-duty pallet covers made by Budge to protect sensitive wind energy switchgear during ocean transit and after transfer to construction sites.
Lockheed Martin, The Boeing Company, and Pratt & Whitney
Budge also has a long history of developing protective solutions for various military applications, working directly for or in concert with leading government contractors, such as Lockheed Martin, The Boeing Company, and Pratt & Whitney. Past projects have included:
- Covers to protect Alaska-based F-22 aircraft from moisture and icing during extreme weather conditions
- Covers to protect the sensitive F-22 aircraft canopy during storage, transport and maintenance
- Covers, with a custom, non-repeating, camouflage design, to protect the reactive appliqué armor tiles on the front and sides of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Recognized Budge Industries for “100% Quality and Delivery Performance” in 2011 for work related to the F-22 Program.
U.S. Postal Service
The maker of equipment used in mail sorting by the U.S. Postal Service turned to Budge to develop custom filtration covers that would prevent paper dust from interfering with the proper operation of equipment.
General Motors Corp.
Unique cushioning covers made by Budge from DuPont™ materials made it possible for General Motors Corp. to achieve its ambitious goal of “zero defects” in the transport of more than 60 different bumper fascias. Budge developed the covers to work in conjunction with a new common steel bumper transport rack designed to increase pack density and slash shipping costs.
