TEXTILES, HOME & PERSONAL CARE
SETTING NEW STANDARDS IN STYLE
Yünsa is one of the world’s biggest producers of premier worsted fabrics and the largest in Europe. The company continues to set new standards in quality, style and diversity with its worsted yarns blended with cashmere, lycra, cotton and linen, as Philip Yorke reports.
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ounded in 1973, Yünsa is the largest integrated high-segment worsted wool fabric manufacturer in Europe and one of the five biggest in the world. When Yünsa started producing worsted fabrics in 1973 it focused on the manufacture of men’s fabrics and later in 1998, it added women’s fabrics, according to information supplied to Industry Europe. Yünsa primarily manufactures 100 per cent worsted fabric, as well as worsted fabrics blended with cashmere, lycra, viscose, cotton and linen. In addition to 4,500 tonnes of worsted yarn, Yünsa produces and uses its own yarn that has 12.5 million metres of worsted capacity per year.
Today Yünsa has customers in more than 50 different countries, with Germany remaining the company’s biggest market. In addition, it is the leading fabric supplier to some of the world’s most famous brands. The company was listed on the Turkish stock exchange almost 30 years ago.
Strengthening exports Yünsa, the biggest integrated high segment worsted fabric manufacturer of Turkey and Europe, last year broke all previous records achieving revenues of more than 42 million euros. The company recorded an increase in sales of 19 per cent, according to a recent Industry Europe 179
