YAKUPOGLU, a privately owned manufacturing business, is located in ANKARA, TURKEY.

Originally founded in 1927 the company is located on a total of 72.000 m2 ground, of which 50.000 m2 is a closed production area. We employ 1500 people on 2 sites producing a wide range of safety and occupational footwear, clothing, bags and tents. Our average annual turnover for 1999 and 2000 is around 50 million USD.

We have invested extensively in 4 alternative sole moulding (injection) processes form DESMA in Germany. In addition, CAD/CAM material cutting and computarised stitching have been installed to enable us to stay at the leading edge of technology and superiority(Enclosed you may find a list of our machinery). This allows us to offer our customers the benefits of consistently high quality and performance in our products. We support this by the implementation of ISO 9001 and membership of SATRA to audit and test our products backed up by the extensive facilities of our in-house accredited laboratory. Our safety products are all licensed to conform with European Standard EN 345 -1.

Our products spectrum consists of PU /PU Direct Injected (Desma System), PU / TPU Direct Injected (Desma System), PU / Rubber Direct Injected (Desma System), goodyear welted or unit soled shooes and boots with and without GORE-TEX lining. In total our daily capacity for the above emntioned spectrum is around 10.000 pairs.

Our on going research program about the latest technology is designed to ensure that we follow up the new developments in the marketplace and to take necessary action in investing where needed. To accomplish all this we have invested $20.000.000 within the last 4 years.

Our new target is to begin manufacturing hiking and trekking type boots and shoes.

We recently obtained GORETEX licence for garments and foorwear and this technology enables us to offer higher performance products using the technical support of the world leader in this field