Adfil has been producing, supplying & specifying construction fibres for over 30 years. In its history, the company has been privately owned and part of a global PLC.
Since 2019 Adfil has been under private ownership. This allowed us to focus the company aiming at long-term future goals. This has resulted in improved products & offering to our market while expanding our manufacturing footprint & capabilities.
ADFIL is leading the way to improve fibre-reinforced concrete further than ever before, including our mission to reduce the carbon footprint in the construction world.
Independent reports prove that the utilization of our fibres can save you up to 90% CO2 in your construction reinforcement.
Due to the improved product performance of our fibres & continued logistic optimizations, we can supply products to your projects, with significant reductions of vehicle movements.
We are a company of expert technologists both in the manufacturing of fibres, in concrete technology, as well as dedicated specialist design engineers – giving you the best concrete reinforcement solutions available in the market.
ADFIL covers direct sales and distributors in over 60 countries worldwide, so you can find an Adfil Fibre Solution wherever you are.
UTEXBEL – the belief in European Textiles for the future !
Our passion leads towards our “raison d’être” : YOU
Founded in 1929 in Ronse, Belgium, UTEXBEL is a vertically integrated textile group, leader in the public tenders, industrial protective workwear fabrics, casual wear and technical textiles.
With pride and professionalism, UTEXBEL offers the best yarns and fabrics to cater for all needs, respecting the environment and the well-being of both the workers and the end-users. Within all its decisions, UTEXBEL seeks a constant improvement of health, safety, quality, efficiency and care for the environment.
THE UTEXBEL MISSION
UTEXBEL develops, produces and commercialises yarns and fabrics with multiple high level functionalities according to the customers’s specifications, which contribute to its own satisfaction and to the end user’s security, health and comfort. The group leads several cooperative projects with key partners in the fields of sustainable development, quality and logistics.
Jean-François Gribomont
PASSION – PROCESS – PROGRESS
Quality guarantee is at the centre of our daily preoccupations. Our products are valued by discerning customers, worldwide. An irreproachable quality , permanent improvement and a high level of customer service are the key elements in all our activities.
KEY FIGURES
8000 tons of spun yarns produced yearly
13 millions meters of fabric produced yearly
5% of the turnover invested in R&D
20% of all yearly investments have a social or environmental character
Calcutta is a world leading supplier of creative fashion textiles for interior decorating purposes
Calcutta NV is a Belgian weaving mill with its headquarters in the historic village of Sleidinge near the city of Ghent in Belgium. Established in 1848, Calcutta has built up a strong reputation in the textile industry and acquired a unique know how throughout the years. As a Flemish jacquard weaver, Calcutta evolved from a traditional plant to a modern textile factory offering well-designed, custom-made products.
As of today, we produce Window Fashion Fabrics for blinds, High End Textile Wall Covering and Technical Textiles for multiple industries. The 25.000 square meter factory is vertically integrated and produces innovative solutions to fit the market demand. We export to over 60 countries in every continent of the world and are continuously innovating our products.
Calcutta is committed to meet the highest expectations of its customers by providing excellent service and quality products, establishing long-term customer partnerships, developing innovative technologies and remains a respected name in the industry.
Our goal is to create a comfortable atmosphere in people’s daily life by offering well-designed, environmental friendly products. These are manufactured with the highest degree of dedication and delivered with a sense of warmth, individual pride and company spirit.
Our mission and values
Customer partnerships
To develop partnerships with each of our customers and conduct our business affairs in a highly ethical manner and with a common-sense approach.
Product innovation
To produce and supply our industries, through development, production, distribution and service with innovative and environmental friendly products which addresses well-defined market needs worldwide.
Innovation leader and trendsetter
Finipur is an international trendsetter in the use of technical coatings and innovative applications for finishing semi-manufactured products. At Finipur, we work with customers across all industries around Europe. We create strong partnerships with our customers, enabling us to work together to find innovative solutions. Finipur is a business with a great history but its future looks even brighter thanks to its vision to support sustainable investment in people, the environment, technology and safety.
70 000m² A DAY
1 400 000m² A MONTH
15 000 000m² A YEAR
Since 1978 Finipur specialises in the treatment of various textile fabrics
Using various specific and unique types of “finishing” per article and per customer, we can offer our customers a “tailor-made” R&D. Moreover, we make our vast knowledge of the newest (innovative) materials available to you, meaning that we signify an important added value for your product. We offer our customers at tailor-made technical solutions home and abroad, we always strive for unsurpassed quality and we can ensure a very high flexibility within our manufacturing processes.
Finipur is active in highly divergent industries : technical textile, interior and outdoor textile (carpets, upholstery fabrics, curtains, bathroom, kitchen, …), automotive, train, maritime, buses (coaches), airplanes, army, sports, packaging, shoes, filters, animal farming, roofing material, show business, insulation, protective clothing, tents, baby goods, garden, nonwoven, bamboo, …
Why Finipur?
Our mission
As a Belgian textile company we are specialised in the treatment of a large assortment of textile substrates and we are already active in the most divergent industries such as interior, outdoor, transport, military, shoes, filters,… Because of our elaborate knowledge of the newest materials, we ensure that the products of our customers at home and abroad are given a significant added value. (“we upgrade your product”)
Because Finipur is valued as a trend-setting and esteemed company by its stakeholders (customers, suppliers, personnel, shareholders …), we wish to create a captivating and inspiring working environment; we always strive for top quality and within the company, the respect for the environment and fellow man is omnipresent.
History
Finipur is a company with a golden past, but keeps its eye on the future. Since more than 30 years we are your indispensable link in the process from manufacturer to consumer. We thank this strong position to our knowhow and our unique experience that dates back to the start of the 19th century.
People and environment
Finipur wishes to create a distinct profile of itself as durable partner, by achieving with a minimum of raw materials, energy and human effort a maximum of added value. For this reason, we comply since many years with all legal demands. We only work with raw materials that comply with the laws in force, we invest in adequate working tools and in safe working conditions, follow a proactive environmental policy, and energy-friendly processes are continuously being implemented.
Because Finipur applied for the zero-dump status, no wastewater can be discharged anymore. All our process water is in other words 100% reused in the existing production processes. In August 2012 Finipur engaged itself even further by signing the “Durable Enterprising Charter” of the province West-Flanders. By doing this, Finipur wishes to give a tangible form to the idea of durable enterprising by striving ever further to a continuous improvement of the performances environmental, social and economic level.
“we strive for safe and environmental-friendly working surroundings, ensuring that our collaborators function at their best.”
BEXCO is a leading European manufacturer of precision-engineered synthetic mooring, towing and lifting ropes for offshore, marine and industrial applications.Today, BEXCO serves the world’s largest oil majors, engineering and procurement companies, ship and tug owners by designing and producing made-to-measure fiber rope at its main factory in Hamme, Belgium as well as at its quayside manufacturing facility in Antwerp.
BEXCO ropes are manufactured to the highest standards of quality. BEXCO’s manufacturing facilities are ISO 9001:2015 certified for the research and development and production of Marine, Offshore and Industrial Ropes in synthetic high performance fibers. All of BEXCO’s production, operational and administrative processes are regularly audited by the world’s leading classification societies including Lloyds Register, DNV, GL, Bureau Veritas as the majority of its main offshore synthetic rope solutions serve the world’s leading oil and gas majors.
Our craftmanship
The great history we have of three generations of rope-making craftsmanship and the fact that we design, engineer and manufacture locally at our own facilities in Belgium means we are truly capable of producing some of the sturdiest, most reliable synthetic rope in the world.
Our quality
Our ropes meet the highest industry quality and safety standards and are type approved by the world’s leading classification societies. Both our production facilities in Hamme and Antwerp are ISO9001:2015 certified.
Our expertise
Our engineering expertise is second to none in the industry. We have some of the most knowledgeable designers of complex synthetic rope composites in the business, which can speak the language of our engineering and procurement customers. We also have a production team with decades of collective experience in consistently producing to specification, time after time.
Our service
The care for our ropes doesn’t stop the moment we hand them over to our customers. BEXCO engineers and craftsmen will be on hand to guide our customers in installation, usage and maintenance of our offshore and marine ropes to achieve the best performance and prolong their lifetime. Also, thanks to contractual stock in the main ports in Asia and Europe, ship owners and operators can at all times count on the timely availability of quality rope for their vessels.
Our accessibility
When we ask our customers, what they like about us the most is that they can easily get access to someone who can get the job done. That is less true for many of our competitors. We turn our relatively small size into a clear advantage.
Our approach
If you speak with any of our customers, you will hear that they like doing business with us not because we are the biggest or the loudest players, but because we understand their world and let the solutions we propose and the rope we produce do the talking instead.
Our sustainability
At BEXCO, we are committed to reduce our ecological footprint as part of our daily routines. Whether in production or at the offices, our people are constantly working towards achieving our Sustainability Objectives. BEXCO has earned ISO14001:2015 certification for its environmental management system.
ABOUT US
Verbatex is a trendsetting Belgian producer of area rugs and decoration textiles with more than 40 years of experience! We are one of the leading manufacturers in artificial silk rugs. Our products are characterized by a very fine design and a soft silky touch.
Verbatex is also specialized in plain and jacquard velvets. Our fabrics are suitable for drapery and upholstery and are available in piece dyed or yarn dyed qualities. We offer collections for contemporary and classical interiors.
Verbatex stands for Creativity, Quality and Service.
FITCO is your flexibel partner in technical textiles
Fitco NV, established in 1999, continues to develop, innovate and expand its activities.
A wide range of products
At FITCO we have a specialized manufacturing division for yarns, textiles, fibres, strapping and injection moulded pieces.
In our yarn division we can accommodate special requirements such as entangling, twisting and winding during preparation.
The weaving mill produces customer designed (semi)manufactured products. We aim for vertical integration in order to offer our clients the best product at the best price. Therefore we work with state of the art machinery to produce technical woven fabrics and narrow fabrics, which can also be coated or thermo fixed.
The end products, manufactured at FITCO, are distributed and applied in a wide variety of technical markets such as the automotive, filtration, concrete, paper and packaging, telecom, geo and agro textiles,..
We continue to invest in our production lines, new processes and applications for future technologies.
At FITCO, R&D is the key word in order to fit the needs of our clients!
The management team at FITCO is recognized by its partners in the automotive, telecom and electronics industries as dynamic and flexible.
With a proven record of innovative and technical expertise, FITCO is the best fit for your company!!!
To accomodate the rapid growth of our business and partners, the owners of Fitco decided in 2006 to start a sistercompany ZARGAL. A 22,000 sqm production unit was built next to FITCO.
We are the world market leader in coated technical textiles and technical apparel, protecting people and their belongings.
Sioen produces technical apparel for many different markets where people work in circumstances where safety, comfort and protection are major issues. Examples are: firefighters clothing, chainsaw protection, floatation suits, bullet proof vests, protection against electrical flash overs, …
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Clothing solution provider
Sioen has built up a strong constituency in the various parts of the protective apparel (firefighting, rescue services, police, forestry, marine, …), develops professional clothing (all weather, high visibility, multinorm and food & cold storage) and leisure clothing.
Always and everywhere
More than 2 800 people are working around the clock to secure your safety. 8 plants all over the world and central headquarters in Belgium, make us an excellent partner to customers worldwide.
Because our products are so technical, we have extensive testing equipment in our laboratories. R&D is directed from the research and development center at our main office. Our production plants are state-of-the-art and the people who work there have many years of experience.
Part of the Sioen Industries Group
Sioen Apparel is one of the three divisions of Sioen Industries (founded in 1960). Apart from Sioen Apparel, there are two other divisions: Sioen Coating, world leader in coated technical textiles and Sioen Chemicals, specialised in fine chemicals.
Always the garments you need
Our dedicated team is always at your service to find the garments that fit your particular needs. No matter for which working condition or which industry or service you are in.
Select the type of protection you need:
Professional protective clothing — all weather, high visibility, multi norm, food and cold storage
SIP Protection — Forestry clothing
Vidal Protection — Firefighters clothing
Mullion — Floatation suits and life jackets
SAT — Stab, slash and bullet proof garments
Baleno — Outdoor leisure wear, hunting and fishing garments
”More than 120 years of experience in innovative and ecological textile solutions.”
De Saedeleir Textile Group (DSTG) is a family-owned business, established in the 19th century. With more than 120 years of experience, we design, develop and produce a wide range of innovative and ecological textile solutions for a wide variety of clients. What began in the early 20th century as a small business specializing in the collection and recycling of industrial waste materials including metals, rags and textiles, steadily developed into a globally-renowned manufacturer of needlepunched non-wovens.
Our history in a nutshell:
Late 19th century
Damiaan De Saedeleir, founding father of De Saedeleir Textile Group, starts trading as a small entrepreneur in the waste collection business. He collects, sorts and trades in rags and metals.
Early 20th century
Damiaan’s sons Pascal and Florent take over their father’s business and specialise in pulling the collected textiles and selling the raw fibres to textile companies in Flanders. The group now operates out of three locations in the village of Lebbeke.
Mid 20th century
Soon after World War II, DSTG begins to concentrate on collecting textile waste and regenerated fibres due to a shortage of raw materials. A third
generation of De Saedeleir brothers enter the business as Leo and Jean help their father to expand the company, before assuming control.
Late 20th century
The company is now growing at a rapid rate. The three locations in Lebbeke are now too small to cope, so DSTG moves to a 200,000m² industrial site in the nearby city of Dendermonde. Here they begin the production of polypropylene and polyester fibres, a European first at that time. DSTG is now aiming for global expansion under the new and dynamic management of the fourth generation of the family: Patrick, Pascal, Dirk and Kris De Saedeleir.
Early 21st century
DSTG expands globally by taking ownership of French textile company Sommer Needlepunch, which becomes an important part of the group. This takeover expands the product range significantly, enabling DSTG to explore new markets. Further growth follows with the launch of sales and service offices in the UK (Sommer Flooring Ltd), US (Sommer Flooring Inc), the Netherlands and Belgium (Cover Flooring NL/BE), while DS Fibras is launched in Mexico to serve the local automotive market.