Coats Turkey, as one of the strongest establishments of thread manufacturing in Turkey is happy and proud to celebrate its 60th anniversary. Coats Turkey, part of the global Coats Group, was established in 1952 when J&P Coats formed a partnership with Istanbul General Weavers and started production in the Eyup factory on the coast of Haliç. Through its dedication to quality, Coats Turkey has gained a significant position and has been leading theTurkish hand crafts and readywear thread market for 60 years.
Coast Group sustained its investments by acknowledging Turkey as an important country in the frame of global trade and supply chain conditions that are continuously changing and developing. Coats Group of companies, in the very beginning of 2000s, completed the process of company and product globalisation in order to achieve global service by offering the same products with equal quality and same brands in 67 countries. Coats Turkey has become a product development and training base and the manufacturing center of Europe inside the Coats Group. Today, Coats Turkey is one of the most important production and sales-marketing units of the EMEA region which consists of the areas of Europe-Middle East and Africa. In the EMEA which includes active sales operations in 32 countries and production in 9 countries, Coats Turkey meets the 20% of all the sales of the region alone. This, at the same time is the highest country sales figures of all the region.
Coats Turkey, which has approximately 900 employees, continues to increase its production of sewing thread, embroidery thread and zips with its sustainably strong and growth oriented structure. Employers satisfaction, product quality and environment responsibilities are stated as the indispensible top values of the company. Besides the full product range of sewing threads, Coats Sewing Solutions is a service product offered to Coats customers free of charge and supports the manufacturing with the expertise in sewing techniques, correct thread selection, thread consumption calculation and productivity. Coats also continuos to organise training seminars in the technical schools and faculties, holding the responsibilty of raising trained manpower for the readywear industry.
Thread that Suits The Embroidery and Readywear
Together with the brands today, Coats Turkey has been presenting many important thread brands to the market for years. The brand Anchor/Çapa of crochet thread that enables young ladies eye-straining work of handicrafts to last for centuries, Drima sewing threads that tailor ladies prefer, the hand embroidery thread Domino that lasts for years on the colourful cushions and table cloths we can inherit to our children, the high quality mercerised cotton sewing thread Chain and the first corespun sewing thread brand in Turkey Koban that started a new productivity era in the Turkish readywear market are Coats brands identified with the Turkish textile history.
Coats Turkey, in the premises of full-integrated thread production, produces high quality sewing thread in the range of any thickness, raw material and in unlimited color selection. The product offer is expanded especially according to the trends and demands in the readywear sector. Recently, the company developed many new sewing threads such as organic cotton, anti-bacterial, waterproof, super stretch and low melt adhesive hemming threads.
Coats Turkey authorities believe that the Turkish readywear manufacturers will keep their competitive power with their product quality, dynamic concepts of fashion designs and the reputation of business moral. There will always be requirement for new products and new solutions in the developing market of value added garments, technical and nano textile products. As it has been for 60 years, also in the future, Coats Turkey will continue to be the ‘’ Truly Global Partner’’ of Turkish Readywear Industry that is continuing to grow with Turkish brands, first quality production, and the advantages of supply chain conditions.
The Best Answer for the Sewing Thread Needs of Every Industry
Coats Turkey products, since 1952 has been in the use of industries like mattress making, furniture & upholstery, leather garments, footwear, automotive seat belts and seat covers, as well as the readywear garments. Coats Turkey, with the power of 250 years of experience from the Coats Group, has a strong position in industrial sewing thread market with its global brands Epic, Dual Duty, Gral, Gramax, Tre Cerchi, Aptan, Eloflex, Seamsoft and Terko Satin.
Epic brand is stated to be the most widely used sewing thread. Polyester covered continuous polyester corespun structure makes epic preferred where fineness, seam strength and productivity is important. Epic is produced in a wide range of tkt sizes from tkt 12 to tkt 220 and preferred in all the sectors from soft underwhere to denim garments with severe washing. The brand Epic Rugged, launched in 2011 is specially produced for high colour performance undere severe bleaching conditions in denim wash.
Dual Duty, similar to epic is a corespun sewing thread with polyester core yarn covered with cotton wrap. Dual duty is preferred for its natural effect of cotton cover, in high quality outwear and denim segments. Besides the premium quality staple spun polyester (SSP) sewing thread Astra, the brand Cometa is also launched to the market in order to meet the demand in the lower priced segment of the SSP sewing thread market. Cometa has gained an important market share in the last three years.
Gral, produced from high quality continuous filament polyster has a very wide range of use from trombolin to footwear, from automotive to mattresses, and from furniture to fine trouser hemmings. Coats also produces bonded type of continuos filament polyester sewing thread with the brand of Dabond for segments where higher seam strength and abrasion resistence is required.
Aptan and Nylbond, other brands of Coats, are described as the versions of Gral and Dabond produced from high quality nylon filament. Tre cheri and Gun are high quality mercerised or soft cotton sewing threads used in leather garment industry and for garment dyeing operations. Gramax is a texturised polyster sewing thread produced for the demand from underwear, knitted garments and quilting industry. Seamsoft is a micro filament texturised polyster thread, preferred in underwear and summer clothes with its soft touch in next to skin seams.
Eloflex, which has a streching property of 60%, is a solution thread that is especially chosen by the companies manufacturing super stretch denims, lycra containing garments and collar seams of child clothing. Eloflex is produced in three tkt sizes, 120-50 and 30. Ecoverde is a new umbrealla brand of Coats with organic cotton and recycled polyester sewing threads for ecological garments.
The flame returdant sewing threads Firefly- Flame master- Pyrostar and Protos brands are used in the uniforms of fire department, soldier and police, in the business attire of the iron and steel workers, in the equipments of hotel, carehouse, hospital, in curtains, in cinema/conference halls and in automotive.
Coats Turkey authorities stated in the declaration made to the Textil Dünyası that although Coats Turkey is the main supplier for flame returdant threads to Coats Europes, the potential in Turkey is very limited because protective cloth and equipment standards are not formed in Turkey. The authorities, emphasizing that an improvement in this area must certainly be done, claimed that the importance given to the human health, lower than Europe is not acceptable. The authorities of Coats Turkey declared that in this regard they carry out some operations wihtTurkish Standards Institute to create awareness for the institutions.
