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APLIX company profile

Assembling, Attaching, Fastening

These are the functions of APLIX self-gripping fasteners, fascinating products created in the 1950's. APLIX had many self-gripping fastener innovations over the past 50 years.

APLIX Successes

Over one billion meters are produced every year and thousands of our products have been developed to meet customers' specific requirements in several hundred applications.

APLIX's success is based on the inventiveness of our clients, the ingenuity of our research team, our manufacturing expertise, the experience of our sales force and the support of our suppliers.

Improvement of APLIX hook and loop fastener performance together with competitive costs have driven tremendous growth in customer applications. As a result, APLIX sales have quadrupled during the past 10 years.

Figures

  • Market share >>> N°2 Worldwide
  • Annual sales (2006) >>> 170 M$ (129 M€)
  • Manufacturing sites >>> 5
  • Number of employees >>> 800 personnes
  • Annual R&D budget >>> 4% of sales
  • Advanced technology investments >>> 7% of sales

Quality

  • ISO 9001 / ISO TS 16 949
  • 2 High-tech laboratories
    (France and USA)

Focus On Three Markets

HYGIENE

AUTOMOTIVE

INDUSTRY

The Future

New opportunities are emerging for APLIX :

  • consumers need more innovative self-gripping fastening systems
  • conversion of products with integrated self-gripping fasteners is growing, widening potential fields of applications
  • recent APLIX developments in micro technologies (lasers, ultrasonics) will continue to improve the performance and cost of APLIX products.