Folgarolas, a company dedicated to fabric manufacturing for the fashion sector based in Terrassa, has invested two million euros to expand its factory and relocate production. After the great industrial relocation of the last decades, the Catalan textile sector "has become very small", comments Pepe García Balagué, general manager of Folgarolas. The pandemic - he continues - highlighted the need "to maintain the local industrial fabric", which is why the company, in the hands of the fourth family generation, decided to concentrate all production in Terrassa. "Before covid we manufactured 65% locally and 35% in Turkey; now we can assume 100% of our production here and even manufacture more", affirms García Balagué.
Of the two million euros of investment, the Generalitat has subsidized 235,100 under a reindustrialization aid program – the Minister for Enterprise and Work, Roger Torrent, officially inaugurated the new factory a few days ago– . The expansion has also led to the hiring of seven new workers. In total, Folgarolas employs twenty people and has a turnover of six million euros.
The company buys yarn from mostly European suppliers, designs the fabric in terms of structure and composition, and then manufactures it at its facilities. The dyeing and subsequent finishing is subcontracted to local suppliers – mainly from Castellar del Vallès and Monistrol de Montserrat. Among its customers are fashion brands such as Massimo Dutti, El Ganso, Bimba
