“What actually matters is to remain on top”- says your company’s tenet line. Can we start with knowing more about your company’s business ethics and strategies that help it to exemplify this dictum?
Akin Tekstil carries out the serious R&D studies in order to maintain its market share among entire world’s textile competition today without making compromise on the quality standards. Of course, one should not forget that maintaining the market share is closely concerning with balancing of the economic conditions within the country and world.
In order to realize all of them, we believe in the good, balanced, long-lived innovative staff and our wide family structure which uses the cultures in the good and self-sacrificing manner individually.
Looking the global textile industry at close, how do you see its present condition, and Turkey positioning in it? What is your market share in domestic as well as international market?
Even though the textile industry as considered to be less developed and cheap workmanship sector, will never disappear in Turkey. Thanks to the industry which renews itself, realizes the automation, has well-established R&D and experienced staff. Akin Tekstil has this belief. The shares of earnings may change, but hope and production continue with external world markets and Turkish markets.
Cotton market worldwide is going through tough time these days. What is your say? How is this condition in cotton market affecting the business of cotton fabrics makers of your capacity?
Textile goes affected by both agriculture as well as economic and political factors. Especially, the cotton textile is affected negatively by the cotton market which is not going well recently. I am afraid that these agricultural problems and economy factors will make the cotton production, which is already slow, worse in the future. The end producer, i.e. industrialist, may experience difficulties to obtain the worth cotton.
Dealing into Shirting fabrics since five decades, you must be having information and analysis on the current consumer preferences, trends and market potential as well. Please share it with us and our 2 million ever increasing visitors worldwide.
Akin Tekstil manufactures the cloth for shirt according to pleasure, fashion, season and different tastes prevailing in the global countries. The creative collections, which are introduced by our expert staff 2-3 times in a year, are created by sharing opinions of consumers worldwide. We offer many multifunctional Technical Textiles such as smell-eliminating (antibacterial) in essence, reflecting sunlight (anti-UV), removing mosquito and insects (anti-mosquito), non-sweating (absorbing sweat) etc. into the cloth for shirt.
Your Group also claims its lead in the technical textile sector in Turkey. Can we know about the products range that you offer in this sector? What are your perceptions regarding sector’s market future to be?
Akin Tekstil has continued its production in the integrated manner since 1956. It has put all technical textiles into its production line by using integration facilities for 2 years. All technical textiles are examined by our expert staff from yarn to fabric and I think, it responds to the need in a great percentage. This market is definitely the lucrative one.
How do you envisage Organic Cotton Fabrics evolving, while considering present cotton market scenario full of crisis and obvious inflation?
Organic cotton is a different reality of cotton world. My personal belief is that human beings have already used this organic structure in its first primitive lifestyle. I hope that the chemicals to be used in the future will be organic without any compulsion.
Akin Tekstil manufactures and markets “Organic Cloth” with special dyestuff and chemicals by using organic cotton.
“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams,” says the famous quote on Innovation by W Arthur Porter. How well this goes with R&D division at Akin Tekstil. Do you have any new product to be announced here with?
As stated above too, our R&D group forms the mainstay of our company’s success. With 50 expert and highly skilled staff, this division carries out its work by renewing itself and is constantly serving the flame retardant world of Technical Textile.
In corporate business, the human factor in conforming to the dynamics brought by globalization is getting significant now. Isn’t it? So, how active is Akin Tekstil on this front?
In Akin Tekstil, human factor always plays the leading role, because, we believe the good game can be played only with the good and quality players. Moreover, since the individuals accept the globalization in advance, our experts, who exchange the information with all poles of the world, enrich their wide opinions and we try to exist in the world’s trend by adding new staff to our company.
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