The Association ASTRICO NORD-EST includes producers of yarn, knitwear, clothing and from other fields (furniture, packages) from the North-Eastern development region of Romania.
The main exponent of the association is RIFIL SA Savinesti, the most important manufacturer of acrylic yarn in the European Union.
Our members produce per year more than 20000 tons of yarn of various sorts and compositions and circa 1 million knitwear items made by flat and circular knitting machines, using also other equipment for assembling, ironing and finishing.
The raw material used consists mainly of the following sorts: wool-type yarns and cotton-type yarns in various compositions (100% acryl, mix of wool/acryl, mix of cotton/acryl etc.), of densities between Nm 40/1 and Nm 3.
In the manufacturing and marketing units of the association work over 1825 employees and in 2022 the aggregated turnover was of over RON 830 million (EUR 168 million).
In the year 2010 ASTRICO NORD-EST launched and signed a partnership with: