Fields of Activity
TEXTILES
Europe's largest integrated polyester yarn and cotton home textile manufacturer.
Zorlu Textiles Group, Europe's largest producer of integrated polyester yarn and cotton home textiles, continues its activities through 12 companies. Leader in Turkey in textile exports, the Group exports 60% of its production to 58 countries in 5 continents.
A world pioneer in micro-thread technology: Korteks
Founded in 1989 in Bursa as the first company of Zorlu Group, Korteks is the largest polyester yarn producer in Europe and the Middle East. With a production area of 335 thousand square meters, 2200 employees, an annual production of 200 thousand tons of yarn, Korteks alone meets 55% of Turkey's total production of polyester yarn. TAÇ branded yarns produced by the company are exported to more than 50 countries. With its applications in the field of nanotechnology, Korteks holds world leadership in micro-thread technology.
Among the top three in the global home textiles market: Zorluteks
Europe's biggest home textile exporter, and among the top three in the global home textiles market, Zorluteks, is the largest integrated producer of cotton home textiles in Europe. Zorluteks, which consists of four plants comprising of home textile, curtain weaving-knitting, finishing and garment factories, produces 250 million square meters of home textile products per year.
Exporting 65% of Turkey’s home textile production and 34% of curtain production, Zorluteks delivers 18% of its exports and 24% of bed linen exports alone. The market leader in a market of 700 million, exports 62 percent of its production to different markets, primarily to the US, Europe, Japan and Russia; while the rest is sold domestically by TAÇ, Linens and Valeron brands.
TAÇ, the biggest brand of Zorlu Textiles Group, reaches millions of customers in 800 stores and salepoints in Turkey, and 158 stores and 690 sales points abroad, with a wide range of products ranging from linen curtains to linen, from towels to blankets and licensed products.
Turkey's first home textile chain operating in international markets, Linens has 17 stores. Linens stores offer products such as curtains, linens, bedspreads, towels, bathroom products, baby products, tableware and accessories; a complete “curtain installation service” is provided as well.
Valeron, which first became famous in the European home textile market, is now sold in 40 countries across the US, the Far East, the Middle East and Europe.
$ 4 million per year is invested in R&D for sustainable innovation in textiles.
The Zorlu Textile Group, who has spent years on innovation in textiles and has made its mark in the forefront, is investing $ 4 million every year on R&D for sustainable innovation. Two R&D centers at Korteks and Zorluteks host 200 engineers working in all areas of smart textiles, including wearable technology.
Many smart products such as self-cleaning blinds and cloth curtains, cool keeping pique, LED light curtains and QR-coded bed linen that produce content continue to make consumers' lives easier by using the technology of the future.
We believe in sustainable innovation, we touch our customers' dreams and we move rapidly towards becoming a global brand in textiles.
Korteks Yarns
Founded in 1989 in Bursa as the first company of Zorlu Group, Korteks is the largest polyester yarn producer in Europe. With a production area of 335 thousand square meters, 2200 employees, an annual production of 200 thousand tons of yarn, Korteks alone meets 55% of Turkey's total production of polyester yarn. TAÇ branded yarns produced by the company are exported to more than 50 countries. With its applications in the field of nanotechnology, Korteks holds world leadership in micro-thread technology.
Zorluteks Textile
Zorluteks Textile, one of the world's leading producers of home textiles, which consists of four plants comprising of home textile, curtain weaving-knitting, finishing and garment factories, produces 250 million square meters of home textile products per year, with a wide range of products ranging from bedspread to pillow, pillowcase to bedspread, tablecloth to bedclothes, cotton curtain fabric to towel. Zorluteks Textile exports 70% of its curtain production to different parts of the world, mainly to America, Europe, Japan and Russia, while using the rest for its own brands such as Taç, Linens and Valeron. Zorluteks, also have an important share in the market for licenced products such as Barbie, Spider Man and Disney.
Zorlu Foreign Trade
Zorlu Foreign Trade, which conducts all foreign trade activities of Zorlu Textiles Group, was founded in 1998. Zorlu Foreign Trade carries out marketing and sales activities in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States with its sales offices and showrooms, and its activities in Eastern European countries from Macedonia and the Turkish republics from Russia. Since 2005, procurement offices in China, India and Pakistan have also been operating in the company to supply raw materials and auxiliaries under favorable terms from world markets.
Zorlu Mensucat
Founded by Mehmet Zorlu in 1953, Zorlu Mensucat started operating in Denizli's Babadağ district. The company, which has been operating since the day it was founded, as the “father’s heirloom”.
Zorlu USA
Zorlu Textile Group's activities in the US market are carried out through Zorlu USA, and its activities in the UK market are carried out through Zorlu UK. Founded in New York in 1998, Zorlu USA markets products manufactured at Zorluteks facilities to wholesalers, retailers and chain stores.
Zorlu UK
Founded in 2002, Zorlu UK Ltd supplies Zorlu Textiles products to home textile stores in the UK, meeting consumers at 70% of UK home textile stores.
