What Borgers does

Borgers is a privately held German manufacturer of textile component systems for the automotive industry, headquartered in Bocholt, Germany. Founded in 1866, the company operates as a Tier supplier producing specialized textile components that are integrated into vehicle programs by automotive OEMs. Based on the firmographic profile, Borgers employs 51-100 people and operates through its website at borgers-group.com. The company's core competency, as described in its short description, is the development and production of textile component systems, indicating a focus on engineered nonwoven or fabric-based parts used in automotive applications such as interior trim, acoustic insulation, or underbody/shield components — though specific product lines are not enumerated in the available data.

The business model is consistent with a Tier-2 supplier: Borgers designs and produces textile component systems and sells into automotive OEM platform programs under multi-year supply contracts. Revenue mechanics are typical for the automotive supplier segment — long-cycle platform awards, tooled production capacity, and pricing tied to annual volume negotiations with OEM purchasing organizations. The firmographic input does not disclose pricing models, customer names, geographic footprint beyond the Bocholt HQ, or channel structure, so the go-to-market detail cannot be expanded beyond the standard Tier-2 supplier pattern. The company is privately held, with no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, or funding rounds in the provided source material.

Beyond the firmographic baseline, the input corpus contains no additional first-party product, technology, or financial detail about Borgers. Several supporting data fields (technology, customers, partnerships, products, leadership, M&A, certifications) are empty, and the only third-party content present pertains to Autoneum, a separate company in the automotive acoustic/thermal management segment. As a result, deeper analysis of Borgers' technology stack, customer base, geographic footprint, and strategic positioning is constrained by the available evidence.

Name

Borgers

Website

https://borgers-group.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1866

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Borgers is a privately held German Tier supplier, founded in 1866 and headquartered in Bocholt, that develops and produces textile component systems for automotive industry customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Automotive Textile Components

NAICS

Textile Product Mills (314)

SIC

Miscellaneous Fabricated Textile Products (2390)

akta.pro primary industry

Automotive & Transportation Technical Textiles (Interiors/Airbags/Seatbelts/Acoustic) (IMAOADAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Technical Fabric Mills (Performance/Protective/Medical Substrates) (IMAOABAH)

Keywords

• Automotive textile components
• Vehicle interior systems
• Textile manufacturing
• Automotive NVH parts
• Car body insulation

Headquarters

HQ city

Bocholt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Borgers develops and produces textile component systems for the automotive industries. The company manufactures fabric-based parts and assemblies used in passenger cars and commercial vehicles, supplying tier-1 components to vehicle OEMs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Textile component systems for automotive applications Fabric-based component systems developed and produced for the automotive industry, supplied to vehicle manufacturers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Autoneum: Swiss-headquartered global market leader in acoustic and thermal management for vehicles using textile and fiber-based components — the most direct comparable to Borgers' stated activity in automotive textile component systems. Sourced via autoneum.com content included in the input dataset.
• Adler Pelzer Group: German-founded Tier-1 supplier of automotive acoustic and thermal insulation systems, including needlepunch nonwovens, carpet systems, wheelhouse liners and headliners — directly overlapping Borgers' automotive textile component system portfolio across European OEM customers.
• Freudenberg Performance Materials: German-headquartered nonwoven and technical textile manufacturer with dedicated automotive segments (interior, filtration, acoustic) — a vertically integrated upstream comparable that supplies or competes with Borgers in substrate and finished-component layers.
• Lydall: North American specialty engineered nonwoven and textile materials supplier serving automotive NVH, thermal and filtration applications — comparable in technical textile focus to Borgers and a relevant peer for benchmarking global program capability.

Broad incumbents

• Grupo Antolin: Spanish global supplier of automotive interior systems including headliners, door panels and overhead systems — a broader incumbent where textile-based components overlap with Borgers' product set, but with wider electronics and trim scope.
• Faurecia (FORVIA): French-headquartered global Tier-1 (now FORVIA) supplying vehicle interior systems, seats and clean mobility solutions; a much larger incumbent that competes in vehicle textiles and acoustic packages supplied to the same European OEMs Borgers serves.
• IAC Group: US-headquartered Tier-1 automotive interior components and systems supplier with European operations producing textile-based trim, headliners and acoustic systems that overlap Borgers' component portfolio for shared global OEM customers.

Emerging players

• Sandler: German nonwoven textiles manufacturer supplying substrates into automotive interior and filtration applications — a regional technical textile player whose substrate overlap with Borgers could make it either a competitor or supplier depending on integration level.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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