Zuhrenur GOKTAS

Founded 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 2013, 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 250 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. Our focus is to create sustainable solutions and circular economy models in the textile industry. In this context, we work on textile to textile recycling, bio-based material technologies, digitalization of textile manufacturing and artificial intelligence.