Founded in Turkey in 1987, Sun Tekstil is one of the biggest textile producer and exporter in Turkey. With our R&D Center approved by Turkish Government in 2010, we aspire to improve people's life through technical textile integrated products. Understanding needs and pain points, designing user friendly solutions, building strong collaboration for market oriented products and delivering innovative B2B or B2C solutions are our core values. Our aim is to develop new products, processes and technologies in the fields of innovative apparel and technical textiles since our establishment. We govern our work areas and build our projects according to the strategies of all Sun Group Companies that we serve as R&D provider. We aspire to develop and accomplish innovative solutions for our focus industries and potential markets. Up to now, Sun Tekstil R&D Center has successfully completed more than 400 projects. At the moment, we carry more than 30 projects that are founded by both internal and external resources. These external sources are TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), Republic of Turkey Ministry of Industry and Technology, Manunet, Eurostars and Horizon Europe. We have completed one Horizon Europe project (TORNADO), and currently we have three ongoing Horizon Europe projects; PLASTICE, BioSusTex and HALO-TEX.
With a consortium of 23 partners from 8 different countries, PLASTICE Project aims to develop four different recycling technologies for plastic waste mixtures to convert them new added value products. Sun Tekstil is responsible for validation of recycled yarns into new fabrics and garments for fashion industry.
With a consortium of 14 partners from 4 different countries, TORNADO Project we developed safe and sustainable water and oil repellent bio-based coatings that can be used in several industries including textile. Sun Tekstil was responsible for validation of new coating chemicals, developing new processes and developing fabrics for technical textiles, activewear and fashion industries.
With a consortium of 12 partners from 7 different countries, BioSusTex Project aims to develop new regenerated cellulosic fiber production technology from textile waste and PFAS free coating formulations for textile applications. Also project aims to develop PVC-free printing formulations for fashion. Sun Tekstil is responsible for application and validation of PFAS free coatings, recycled cellulosic yarns and developing new fabrics for different end use.
With a consortium of 10 partners from 6 different countries, HALO-TEX Project aims to develop a novel and sustainable biorefinery technology for salt tolerant plant biomass. With these biomass, new type of textile fibers and textile additives will be developed. Sun Tekstil is responsible for fabric/garment development with these biobased materials.
Under the Eureka Sustainability Call, our partnership with Smartex, DefectFree Project aims to develop a new defect detection system based on artificial intelligence and machine learning that can detect defects in fabrics with complex patterns while they are produced. Developed systems will be installed in various circular knitting machines to implement zero-waste production model to our factories.
