Company

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

FILASA arrises as one of the national references in its sector. This is a result the efforts and competence of generations of workers that knew how to transmit the winning formula that we need to improve, in order to face new challenges ahead. This culture, shaped with very different areas of experience and expertise, represents FILASA’s main capital, that transmits a strength capable of making it able to stick to a winning path in a challenging context at home and internationally. We must there for prove ourselves worthy of this past, and show the ability to project a new road ahead, based on the strict values which have enabled the Group to consolidate itself as exemplary in its dealings with the community and environment.

A sustainable future.

"This culture, shaped with very different areas of experience and expertise, represents FILASA’s main capital..."

PHILOSOPHY

KEEPING OUR PROMISES

Creating maximum benefit for our customer is not just about offering excellent quality. More importante is a commitment to continuous improvement in both quality and process, which are the keys to creating long-term customer satisfaction. The constant pursuit of excellence in quality and constant improvement in system and process and process lies at the work philosophy of FILASA.

GIVING THE MOST VALUE TO CUSTOMERS

Today, Filasa boasts a solid base of experience of more than 30 years, a well-established customer portfolio, and a platform of advanced technology, which has been built up and developed continuously over the years. The combination of vertical integration, fast response to customers’ needs, international quality products and an effective high-level technical team, enables us to be on a leading position in the textile industry.

FILASA - Fiação Armando da Silva Antunes S.A., began in 1986 and quickly became an important reference in the spinning sector, in Portugal and abroad. Synonymous of product quality and service, FILASA focus its strategy on customers, for who develops solutions, which allows creating value and new solutions for a market as demanding as textile nowadays.

Part of Lasa Group, a leading European home textile Group, FILASA is inserted in an industrial area of about 30.000 m², where we have several sectors, as spinning, twisting, dyeing, space dying, logistics warehouse , energy cogeneration and WWTP (Wastewater treatment plant).

HISTORY

FLEXIBILITY, INNOVATION AND RAPID RESPONSE ARE THE BASES TO OUR SUCCESS IN THE MARKET

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

FILASA firmly believes that enterprises, much like common citizens, play a most important role in society and in protecting the environment. As such, FILASA has always invested in practical measures to promote social development and to lessen the impact on the surrounding environment and community.

JORGE ANTUNES FOUNDATION

The Jorge Antunes Foundation is an important instrument of social responsibility for Filasa. It is a private institution of social solidary that promotes activities and projects aimed at cultural, educational and social development of the community in which it operates.

GRUPO DESPORTIVO FUNDAÇÃO JORGE ANTUNES, FOUNDED OVER 36 YEARS AGO, IS A SPORTS ASSOCIATION WHICH HAS GARNERED SEVERAL NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL THROPHIES OVER THE YEARS AND PRODUCED HUNDREDS OF ATHLETES. NOWADAYS, IT HAS NEAR 150 FEDERATE ATHLETES.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT - WATER REUSE

Filasa is equipped with dyeing equipment and the latest generation textile ennoblement, resulting in a reduced ratio of liters of water used per kg of processed product. The production processes are constantly optimizing and chemicals used are highly biodegradable. Split collectors allow a selection of the wastewater to be conducted to a pre-treatment station where they are launched to the municipal collectorSIDVA and the other part may be reused in the industrial process, after treatment in the MBR biological process (Membrane Bio – Reactor/ KUBOTA). Filasa uses the sustainability measure of the four R’s, reduce, reuse, recycle and re-educate.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

With regard to social and environmental responsibility, in addition to GOTS certification, OEKO TEX and the production of special yarns with organic cotton, Filasa was the first company in Portugal to join the BCI initiative (Better Cotton Initiative) which aims to improve world cotton production practices.

COGENERATION

As an energy intensive consumer, FILASA’s environmental concerns were materialized on an advanced Cogeneration energy engine powered by Natural Gas. This combined heat and power station, produces energy in form of electricity, steam and hot water, all clean resources spent by FILASA’s production sectors and which are obtained with minimum CO2 emission levels.

QUALITY AND INNOVATION

R&D

R&D is a key area, and that is in the genesis of most new products, FILASA is in the process of its certification according to the R&D norm NP 4457.
A high-level technical team with recognized experience, having at their disposal the most modern laboratory equipment, ensures constantly new ideas to feed the needs of a market always waiting for novelties.
Part of the quality requirements are all the tests we subject our products. The objective is only one – deliver satisfaction and the best quality to our clients.

Innovation Vision

To be recognized as a reference company in the textile area, which periodically presents technical yarns for different and various use.

Innovation Strategy

The current economic and social status is marked by a high rate of technological change, the globalization of competitiveness and the circular economy.
In this context, defining an innovation strategy and detailing it in specific goals and action plans is of fundamental importance to the company's sustainable growth: thinking about where to act, how to act, what resources are needed to do so and what obstacles need to be overcome are critical success factors in the successful implementation of innovation initiatives.
FILASA presents itself as a company with in-house research and development team, through the creation of a structured unit dedicated exclusively to industrial research and experimental development activities in the textile area with the incorporation and development of new products, namely through partnerships with universities, technology centers and national or international companies.