Operating in the textile industry as a family company since 1922 Berteks Tekstil A.Ş. has been located in Bursa Demirtaş Organized Industrial Zone which is the biggest industrial zone in Bursa since 1983. The company has 1200 employees working in all stages of the manufacturing of fabrics in the integrated manufacturing plant on an area of approximately 80,000 m2. Berteks Tekstil, part of Berteks Group of Companies grows with its 4th generation owners building on the knowledge and experience of 100 years and new technologies and gets stronger with its excellent service approach and high standard product quality and is one of the leading companies in the industry. The company exports 85% of its home textile products to more than 50 countries in 5 continents including Europe, Australia, and America.

In line with its core strategy of branding, Berteks Tekstil has a wide range of registered sub-brands, each with its own value including “Dolce Vita,’’ “Startül” “Pescofil” “Secure” “Pescreen”, “Blocky”, “Acusta”, “Plicell” and “W-All”, “Verty’’ which offer decorative fabrics, upholstery fabrics, curtains with different mechanisms, coated fabrics, pleated curtains, shirt fabrics, and technical textiles.

Berteks Tekstil adds value to its stakeholders and brings style to living environments with its high quality and functional and innovative products manufactured through eco-friendly processes.  The company’s R&D center develops innovative products processes and ensures continuous development together with Berteks Academy which improves qualifications and skills of the employees and the company manages its branding and institutionalization processes with the Turquality program. The company carries out social responsibility projects based on the knowledge that the only way our country can have a successful future is by having all organizations aware of their social responsibilities.

About Berteks R&D Center

Berteks has been adopting ever-changing and developing technology to improve its product quality and to strengthen its position and completed successfully Onsite R&D Center Application and Evaluation process of the Department of Science, Industry, and Technology in 2016 and became the 19th R&D center in the textile industry.  Berteks R&D Center has 280 m² offices, a laboratory of 471 m² and R&D weaving machines on an area of 110 m² which makes a total of 861 m². There are 3 different laboratories in the R&D Center: R&D laboratories, physics laboratory, and chemistry laboratory. The R&D Center consists of the R&D Project Management, Design & Product Development, Process Development, Software Development, R&D Laboratory, R&D Sample Production, R&D Support, Intellectual Rights Departments.

Thanks to its strong infrastructure, the R&D laboratories perform flammability tests, light fastness, yarn and fabric rubbing fastness, washing fastness, water fastness, sweat fastness, colour fastness tests, Martindale abrasion and piling test, moisture test, resistance tests and fiber analyses.

Product simulations and tests are carried out in the chemistry and physics laboratories. Experiments with colouring agents and chemicals, process development activities, activities to reduce costs and improve efficiency and relevant tests are the main work carried out in the R&D center. The library in the R&D Center includes local and international periodicals, symposium and seminar booklets and notes, published textbooks and design catalogs.

The company carries out projects in its R&D Center together with its R&D staff who are all experts in their areas with their different background and education to develop innovative, functional, eco-friendly and user-friendly products with a high competitive edge and added value and to develop efficient processes.

BERTEKS offers innovative and contemporary design products for living spaces and outdoor areas. The company’s philosophy is to develop modern, stylish, technical and comfortable products which that are in line with new architectural trends and needs. Exporting 85% of its production, Berteks intends to leverage from his long years of experience to manufacture technical textile products with high added value in order to increase its global export market share. The company specifically works to add new products to its antibacterial, water-repellent, acoustic and flame-resistant technical textile products to improve its competitive edge. Products of the future are created in the R&D Center while the company is transitioning from conventional textile products to technical textile products.

The R&D Center works to create technological information to help the country’s economy achieve a level to compete better globally; to bring innovation to products and manufacturing processes; to increase product quality and standard; to increase efficiency; to lower manufacturing costs;  to commercialize technological knowledge;  to improve pre-competitive collaboration; to increase the number of the R&D staff and of qualified employees; to build an infrastructure to allow a transition to “Industry 4.0”.

Keeping in mind the need in ongoing and/or planned projects and potential in the R&D center, the company works with universities and other educational institutions, Teknokent companies and coordinates with public agencies during research and development processes to accelerate the progress and increase the knowledge of Berteks. The company participates in relevant R&D conferences, trade shows, R&D project markets, technical training etc, to include new products to its product portfolio.