Edip Iplik was founded in 1971 to produce cotton yarn for the growing Turkish textile industry. Over the years it has expanded and diversified its product range to become one of the largest natural and man-made yarn producers in the country.

Today the Company has an annual turnover of over US$ 42 million.Its product range includes: combed and carded, single and multiple yarns from No 6 to No 60, polyester, acrylic, viscose, wool-blended, all kinds of melange, Moline and flambe yarns.

Edip Iplik's major shareholders include Akin Holding, Feza Holding and members of the Akin, Celebi and Koc families, Since 1990, 15 percent of the Company's shares are traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.

Edip Iplik believes that profits directly co-relate to the quality of customer service. With this in mind, the Company has invested heavily in equipping its plant at Mahmutbey, Istanbul. with the latest in textile technology. New technology has enabled Edip Iplik to diversify its product range as well as increase capacity. In 1993 it began production of sewing thread. and in 1994 it began producing slab yarn and fancy twisted yarn. Today the Mahmutbey plant has over 50,000 spindles, ring twisters, a dye house and a sewing thread department.

Edip Iplik also implements a customer oriented production strategy, stressing flexible and small batch production. The Company currently sells most of its output to domestic manufacturers, in addition to its strong exports sales realized mostly through backdoor selling.

In order to keep pace with increasing demand, in 1995 Edip Iplik began constructing a new plant in Luleburgaz. This plant will have the largest twisting capacity and largest dye house in Turkey, and one of the largest sewing thread capacities in the country. The plant commenced operation in the late 1997. Edip Iplik plans to move all of its production to Luleburgaz in the early years of the 21st century.

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