| Company type | Société anonyme |
|---|---|
| Industry | textile, [[]] |
| Founded | 1965 |
| Headquarters |  Cote d'Ivoire |
Filtisac or Filatures, Tissages, Sacs - Côte d'Ivoire is an Ivorian company in the textile sector[1]. Since 1965, it has manufactured natural fiber bags for Industrial Promotion Services (IPS). Launched in 1965 to accompany the growth in exportations of coffee-cacao in Côte d'Ivoire. This manufacturing unit allowed Filtisac to access various African and European markets.
The entreprise, founded August, 4 1965 by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, its main shareholder[2], and inaugurated March, 16 1967 in the presence of President Houphouët-Boigny and his wife, Prince Agha khan, tous les membres du gouvernement, et de nombreuses personnalités ivoiriennes qu'accompagnait le corps diplomatique au grand complet)). At the start, the business had an annual production of from 6 to 8 million bahs depending entirely on raw imported jute[3]. Its main supplier was Bangladesh[4].
In 1988, Filtisac diversified with the creation of a synthetic-fibre packaging manufacturing unit, intended to cover the packaging needs of products such as cotton, rice, fertilizer, la minoterie[2]. A la fin de l'année 2015, Filtisac détient 30 % des parts de marché des sacs en fibres synthétiques en Côte d'Ivoire[5]. In 2016, the company has about 1,300 employees across its eleven subsidiaries in five west-african countries : Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Cameroon[6].