“In January-February at the latest we will start construction on the new pillow and duvet factory, where we will produce 2,000 duvets and 3,500 pillows daily. I believe that European funds can help develop production in Romania, but procedures need to be simplified, because there is a lot of red tape now,” Mustafa Murat Iplikci, who came to Romania 22 years ago to trade in textiles, told ZF.
Currently, the company sells the duvets and pillows it manufactures in department stores, Auchan, Carrefour, Dedeman and other stores under the Home Still brand, he added.
In addition to the textiles produced in Mizil, the company brings in bed linens, blankets and bedspreads from Turkey, Pakistan and China and sells them in Romania. At present, the company manufactures 1,000 duvets and 3,500 pillows daily in its Mizil factory.
The new factory should be completed by 2026 and 31 new jobs created. The plan is to export some of the production of the new factory, the official said.
Meltem Textil ended 2023 with RON32 million revenue and expects 2024 revenue to reach RON35 million to RON36 million, the entrepreneur said. The company is currently employing 50 people.
Finance Ministry data show it to have posted RON27.3 million revenue and RON2.7 million profit in 2022.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)