Heliotextil is a Portuguese private owned company founded in 1964. With a modern industrial set-up covers an area of more than 10.000 sqm employing around 120 persons.
Provides solutions in textile products, accessories and components, such as: Labels, Transfers, Emblems, Elastic bands and Ribbons (simple and assembled), Personalized Products, as well as technologies related to its solutions.
It creates, develops, produces, markets and provides services to personalize, decorate and functionalize the products of its clients, who are the owners of brands, industries and resellers, mainly in the Sports, Technical Textile, Fashion, Packaging and Promotional sectors.
Along with its industrial capacity, it internally has Design, Research and Development skills as well as programming and software, focused on reinforcing innovative solutions as a relevant differentiating factor in the target markets where it operates.
Applies certified management systems with a clear commitment to continuous improvement, innovation and sustainability.
Operating as independent structures, these companies related to the business universe of Heliotextil mark a strategy of specialization in product lines and markets:
Bias binding, piping, and a full collection of accessories and fabrics on different materials solutions.
Materials for the textile label industry solutions.
Business and Technological solutions.
"Since our foundation we have adopted management practices based on continuous investment and on the modernity of the organization.
We continuously invest because we believe in our activity. We exist because we create value and we share it with shareholders, collaborators, clients, suppliers and other partners. We therefore have social responsibility in creating jobs, supporting economic activity and paying taxes, contributing to increased well-being and the development of society.
What drives us is to perform better and better by creating value, preparing ourselves for the challenges ahead and protecting the company’s sustainability."
Alberto Pacheco
Co-founder and Chairman of the board
Heliotextil's corporate principles are the foundation on which our business culture is built, whose development has taken place over more than 60 years.
These principles are present in our Vision, Mission, Values and its Management System Policy, encompass diverse aspects from environmental to socio-economic and represent the essential value of our corporate culture: protecting the future with sustainable policies.
Within the responsibilities of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Heliotextil, we assume a management committed to the sustainability of the organization.
We intend to be a global reference in providing solutions in products, accessories and specialized textile components for demanding and differentiating market segments, based on quality, innovation and value creation, with full customer satisfaction, ensuring the sustainability of the organization.
Satisfy the needs and expectations of national and international customers, through a diversified offer of solutions in products, accessories and textile components, services and related technological solutions, adding a strong component of knowledge, ensuring adequate training of human resources and adopting the best management practices supported by certification systems that ensure, as a whole, the creation of value and the sustainability of the company in the future.
HELIOTEXTIL is committed to ensuring the maintenance and updating of its Management System, integrating Quality and Innovation Standards and complying with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
HELIOTEXTIL's Management System Policy is based on the following strategic pillars:
Meet or exceed customer requirements, obtain visibility and recognition with differentiating products and services in terms of quality, diversity and technological innovation, ensuring their permanence and full satisfaction.
Manage processes and resources in a controlled and objective-oriented manner, towards continuous improvement in productivity and product quality.
Promote a culture oriented towards improvement and innovation, training, motivating and valuing its employees, as fundamental factors for their integration and total satisfaction.
Encourage creativity and value opportunities for innovation and improvement, promoting innovative solutions for our customers.
Ensure the protection of the environment, adopting the principle of pollution prevention, seeking to implement practices that allow controlling adverse environmental impacts, reducing the ecological footprint and placing innovative and sustainable products on the market.
Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules by providing safe and healthy workplaces and preventing existing risks to protect people and facilities.
Promote the company's future sustainability, ensuring its obligations towards interested parties, namely shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers and society in general.
These pillars are essential to ensure the company's competitiveness in the global market.
The Management Policy will be reviewed annually for its adequacy and implementation.
General Direction
October 2023
HELIOTEXTIL is deeply committed to the implementation and maintenance of chain of custody requirements, and complies, applies and promotes:
Supply policy, endorsed by the company's highest level of management, through which it undertakes not to do so, and to implement its best efforts to avoid marketing and supplying wood or wood fiber (hereinafter referred to as wood) of the following categories:
The administration
October 2022
"Manufacture of Labels, Heat-Transfers, Woven Ribbons, Elastics and other accessories."
"Design and Development of Labels, Transfers, Passementerie and Ribbons."
For more details about the scope of this certification, visit the OEKO-TEX website, here.
For more details about the scope of this certification, visit the OEKO-TEX website, here.
For more details about the scope of this certification, visit the OEKO-TEX website, here.
Product categories: Functional Accessories
An international standard entirely dedicated to articles made from recycled material. It encompasses the process chain, social practices, environmental responsibilities and chemical restrictions.
Product categories: Functional Accessories
Standard applied to the production process that uses organic textile fibers throughout the supply chain. The articles produced are thus inspected for compliance with the GOTS standard, validating the guarantee throughout the supply chain up to the end consumer.
Product categories: Functional Accessories
Applied to articles that contain the amount of organic cotton necessary to be considered an organic product. It does not certify the origin of materials, the production process, the environmental impact or issues related to workers rights.
Product categories: Functional Accessories
International standard that establishes requirements for tracking recycled raw materials along the chain of custody.
Selling and production of accessories for the textile industry (tapes and textile labels) FSC 100%. Transfer system.
Selling and production of articles made of paper, cardboard, cardboard and cork (promotional material, labels and other articles). FSC mixed and FSC recycled. Transfer system.
Selling and production of accessories for the textile industry (tapes and textile labels) (100303). PEFC certified. Separation method.
Commercialization and production of paper, cardboard and cork (promotional material, labels and other articles) (110205, 110208, 110508, 120107 y 120602). PEFC certified. Physical Separation method.
"Safety and Health at Work."
"Environment."
"Social responsability."
Heliotextil, Etiquetas e Passamanarias, S.A. applied and approved a project to Portugal 2020, Internationalization SME type, with the total eligible investment amount of € 387,134.50.
The approved application is included in the Operational Program Competitiveness and Internationalization, thematic objective "OT 3 - Reinforcing the Competitiveness of SMEs" and has as investment priority the development and application of new business models for SMEs, especially with regard to internationalization.
The investment is located in the industrial zone in the municipality of São João da Madeira, district of Aveiro.
The main objective of this internationalization project is to reinforce the international presence of Heliotextil, a highly competitive company in the subsector for the manufacture of trimmings and servicies, other textile accessories and innovative solutions for the control and security of textile articles.
Heliotextil has a leading position in the domestic market in several of its manufacturing segments - transfers, trimmings, woven and stamped labels - a position that has been built through a long presence in the market for more than 50 years, a policy of constant investments in modernization of processes, products and brands, and innovation, a position that aims to enhance.
The investment plan of this project is characterized by a broad cross-cutting nature, encompassing several activities of marketing innovation and organizational innovation.
Heliotextil, Etiquetas e Passamanarias, S.A. applied and approved a project to Portugal 2020, Enterprise R&D Incentive System type, with the total eligible investment amount of € 381,126.43.
The approved application is included in the Operational Program Competitiveness and Internationalization, thematic objective "OT 1 - Reinforcing Research Technological Development and Innovation" and its investment priority is to promote corporate investment in R&I.
The investment is located in the industrial zone in the municipality of São João da Madeira, district of Aveiro.
This project is part of a strategy implemented by Heliotextil, S. A. to develop innovative textile adhesives for incorporating electronic devices into clothing. The goal is to develop adhesives that allow overcoming failures in the current production process in terms of lack of conductivity, flexibility, adhesion and compatibility with transfer temperatures and wash resistance.
Heliotextil has a leading position in the domestic market in several of its manufacturing segments - transfers, trimmings, woven and stamped labels - a position that has been built through a long presence in the market for more than 50 years, a policy of constant investments in modernization of processes, products and brands, and innovation, a position that aims to enhance.
The project will be carried out in co-promotion with the University of Aveiro, the investment plan is characterized by investment in people specializing in research, appropriate equipment and materials, covering various study activities innovation in polymers and processes, industrial research and practical application.
