HISTORY

AKINAL SENTETIK TEKSTIL SAN. ve TIC. A.S. (asnonwovens) was founded in 1999. Asnonwovens is the second big investment of AKINAL family. The first one “Opak Ayakkabı End. & Tic. A.S.” is now one of the leading companies in the footwear industry in Turkey. With more than 1000 employees, now all existing plants and headquarter are located in Gaziantep, Turkey and settled on more than 450.000sqm with around 200.000 sqm building and manufacturing nonwoven roll goods since beginning of 2002. We are proud of being the first SPUNLACE NONWOVEN Roll-Goods Manufacturer in Turkey.

Due to its capability and readiness to react flexibly and with innovative products to the continuously increasing requirements of the market, “asnonwovens” very soon has achieved a leading position among its competitors and growth rates, better-than-average.

And with the slogan ‘Nonwovens for Life’, ASNONWOVENS has taken its place among the world’s largest nonwoven producers by reaching production capacity of more than 135.000 tons per year with investments in different production technologies both in hygiene and technical textiles.

Besides the existing plants located in Gaziantep/Turkey, new investment will be taken operation at the end of 2017 in Tallin, Estonia on 24.000 sqm land with existing 11.000sqm building in Tallin, Estonia. This plant will be dedicated to manufacture spunlace nonwoven roll goods for baby, personal care and medical wet & dry wipes with over 18.000 tones annual capacity. Besides being sector leader in Turkey,we export our goods more than 50 different countries in 5 different continents.

We sincerely believe Total Quality Management and Quality assurance philosophy that we can succeed if and only if we apply the system actually; therefore, we “asnonwovens” from the General Manager to the Employees, are aware of the responsibilities for the quality in the production of these types of fabrics to be converted into the products for health-care applications, especially for babies.