Tisca

What Tisca does

Tisca Tischhauser AG is a Swiss, family-owned textile manufacturer founded in 1940 in Bühler, canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden, operating across four business divisions: woven, tufted, stitched, and hand-tufted carpets under brands including TISCA WILTON, TISCA COLORVISION, TISCA FORTE, WARON, and MODELLANA; interior fabrics under the Mira X collection (approximately 350 articles in 3,000+ colors); Mobility Textiles for aviation, railway, bus, and maritime interiors; and SPORTISCA branded artificial turf for sports facilities. Production combines weaving, tufting, hand weaving, and proprietary stitching methods across wholly-owned facilities in Bühler, Urnäsch, and Sennwald (Switzerland), Moroges (France), Thüringen (Austria), and ROMTAP (Romania), supported by sales offices in Germany (two divisions), Austria, France, and Italy. Technology differentiators include the T-Pure antimicrobial silver finish for healthcare applications (approximately 99.9% bacteria reduction), the patented VORTEX illuminated hand-made carpet, the WARON stitching process with mouliné yarns, polychromatic TIARA GIARDINO Color turf, and the unfilled SPORTISCA T-Turf sports system. Certifications include EN AS 9100:2018 aerospace quality, ISO 9001:2015, CE marking, and GuT environmental compliance, with quality valid through June 2028.

The company monetizes via one-time project sales of customized textile floor coverings, fabrics, mobility interiors, and sports turf, priced on a quote basis through direct enterprise sales channels rather than published pricing. Customer segments span corporate offices, hospitality, public buildings (including the Swiss Federal Palace and German Federal Foreign Office), healthcare, retail, transportation OEMs (Stadler Rail, SBB, Mercedes-Benz representation), residential, sports facilities (FC Arsenal Sports Center), and outdoor living. Go-to-market relies on direct regional sales teams, customer service centers in each national market, and recurring participation in major European industry trade shows including Domotex, BAU, Swissbau, Aircraft Interiors Expo, InnoTrans, and EBACE, complemented by a direct-to-consumer online storefront at tiscathings.ch for the TISCA THINGS lifestyle line. The business remains under Tischhauser family control, with Andreas, Matthias, and Nick Tischhauser in management alongside Rolf Büchi, Samuel Fitzi, and Domenica Tischhauser, and has no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or M&A activity since the 2009 MODELLANA integration.

Name

Tisca

Legal name

Tisca Tischhauser AG

Website

https://tiscatiara.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1940

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Tisca Tischhauser AG is a Swiss family-owned textile manufacturer founded in 1940 that produces carpets, interior fabrics, mobility textiles, and sports turfs across five European countries, supplying corporate, hospitality, public-sector, healthcare, and transport customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Textile Manufacturing

NAICS

Carpet and Rug Mills (314110), Curtain and Linen Mills (31412)

SIC

Carpets & Rugs (2273)

akta.pro primary industry

Broadloom Carpet Manufacturing (IMAOAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Area Rug Manufacturing (IMAOAJAC), Tufted Floor Coverings Manufacturing (IMAOAJAE), Woven Floor Coverings Manufacturing (Axminster/Wilton/Flatweave) (IMAOAJAF)

Keywords

• Woven carpets
• Decorative fabrics
• Mobility textiles
• Sports turf systems
• Artificial turf products

Headquarters

HQ city

Bühler

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Carpet and Floor Covering Sales: Sale of woven, tufted, and hand-crafted carpets for residential, contract, and public building applications. Includes wall-to-wall carpets, area rugs, and custom-designed floor coverings.
2. Fabric and Textile Sales: Sale of curtain fabrics, decorative fabrics, upholstery fabrics, and black-out fabrics under the Mira X collection brand. Approximately 350 articles in more than 3,000 colours.
3. Mobility Textiles: Textile products for aviation, railway, bus, and maritime transport sectors including carpets, seat covers, and curtains. Complete interior design solutions for transportation industry.
4. Sports Turf Systems: SPORTISCA branded artificial turf systems for football, tennis, golf, hockey, and multi-sports applications. Innovative unfilled turf systems requiring no sand or granules.
5. Outdoor Turf Products: Appenzeller turf artificial grass products for balconies, terraces, gardens, and surrounding areas. Includes GIARDINO Color collection with polychromatic colouring.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tisca manufactures and sells textile floor coverings (carpets, area rugs, wall-to-wall installations in woven, tufted, hand-tufted, stitched, and hand-woven constructions), decorative and upholstery fabrics, mobility textiles for aviation, railway, bus, and maritime interiors, and artificial turf systems for sports and outdoor applications. It operates as a vertically integrated full-service provider with custom design consultation, in-house yarn production, and direct regional sales across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, and Italy.

Product overview

Tisca is a Swiss family-run textile company offering a comprehensive portfolio of indoor and outdoor textile products organized into four main divisions: carpets (woven, tufted, hand-tufted, hand-woven), fabrics (Mira X collections, curtains, decorative, upholstery), mobility textiles (for aircraft, railway, bus, maritime), and textile sports turfs (SPORTISCA). The company produces under its own brands including TISCA WILTON, TISCA COLORVISION, TISCA FORTE, WARON, MODELLANA, and Appenzeller Turf/Artificial Turf, alongside sub-brand TIARA for specialty products. Tisca operates its own manufacturing facilities including weaving, tufting, hand-tufting, hand-weaving, and fabric weaving mills, while also offering custom design services and a Product Finder tool. The company also markets lifestyle accessories through TISCA THINGS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TISCA COLORVISION: Woven carpet of top quality with high flexibility in color, design, and structure for individual room concepts.
• TISCA WILTON
• TISCA FORTE
• TISCA FORUM
• TISCA HANDTUFT
• SPORTISCA
• TISCA THINGS
• Collection Mira X
• Tiara Giardino Color
• WARON
• MODELLANA
• Appenzeller Rasen / Appenzeller Turf
• Tiara
• MIRA-X

Products and services

• Interior Carpets and Floor Coverings Comprehensive range of textile floor coverings in woven, tufted, hand-tufted, stitched, hand-woven, mosaic-pattern, and dimensional constructions for residential and commercial projects. Includes TISCA COLORVISION, TISCA WILTON, TISCA FORTE, TISCA FORUM, TISCA HANDTUFT, WARON, MODELLANA, TIARA PORTABELLA entrance mats, TISCA Mosaic tile-look, TISCA SCALINO dimensional, and TISCA LOOP area rugs. Wall-to-wall carpets manufactured in widths up to 1350cm seamless depending on quality. Available with optional T-Pure antimicrobial finish.
• Mira X Decorative & Upholstery Fabrics Extensive collection of high-quality curtain, decorative, black-out, and upholstery fabrics under the Mira X brand. Approximately 350 articles in more than 3,000 colours with new collections presented annually. Includes the Silencia noise-reduction curtain line with acoustic and UV-protection properties and the ALPSTOFF flame-retardant Alpine fabric line for hotel, catering, and chalet use. Designed for residential, hospitality, healthcare, public-building, and commercial interiors.
• Mobility Textiles Premium textile products for the aviation, railway, bus, and maritime transport sectors. Includes carpets, seat covers, curtains, and entrance mats in harmonised designs and colours, engineered to meet aerospace-grade EN AS 9100:2018 quality, fire safety, weight optimisation, and passenger-comfort requirements. Customers include rail vehicle manufacturers (Stadler Rail), operators (Swiss Federal Railways SBB), and aviation and bus interior outfitters.
• SPORTISCA Sports Turf Systems Textile artificial turf systems under the SPORTISCA brand for football, tennis, golf, hockey, and multi-sports applications. Innovative unfilled turf systems provide authentic playing characteristics, nature-like appearance, and high longevity without requiring sand or rubber granule infill. Sold directly to professional sports venues, football clubs, and sports facility operators across Europe.
• Appenzeller Outdoor Artificial Turf Nature-like artificial turf products for balconies, terraces, gardens, and surrounding outdoor areas. Includes the TIARA GIARDINO Color polychromatic collection offering multiple blade heights and shade variations. Designed for weather resistance, year-round greenery, low maintenance, and pet-friendly use in residential outdoor living and commercial surroundings.
• Tisca Garden Outdoor Living Textiles Outdoor living textile collection including hand-woven outdoor rugs and outdoor curtains designed for gardens, terraces, balconies, pools, and yachts. Tisca Garden Collection Vulcano (launched 2026-04-07) offers hand-woven outdoor rugs with powerful elegant textile presence, complemented by Tisca Garden outdoor curtains providing weather and privacy protection for seamless indoor-outdoor space design.
• VORTEX Illuminated Carpet Patented illuminated hand-made carpet that combines illumination technology with woven textile construction. Targeted at premium hospitality, signature interiors, art installations, and high-end residential projects seeking distinctive atmospheric lighting integrated into a textile floor covering.
• TISCA THINGS Lifestyle Products Lifestyle accessories and home items inspired by Tisca's textile passion, sold through the dedicated TISCA THINGS online shop. Includes shopping bags, plant pots, iPad cases, and decorative items featuring synthetic lawn fabric and textile designs, including the KURT highland cattle mascot product line. Targeted at consumers seeking design-led textile accessories.

Quantifiable outcome

• Carpets reduce footstep noise by 25-30 dB compared to 5-15 dB for hard floors
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• FK Austria WienminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 April 2018Purple artificial turf (TIARA GIARDINO Color) supplied for the new Generali-Arena of FK Austria Wien football club.
• Stadler RailcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 May 2017Strategic partnership for supplying textiles for Stadler Rail vehicles. Tisca provides 100% of textiles for the world's first low-floor high-speed train BENE GIRUNO (EC250). Products include carpets, seat covers, and curtains in coordinated designs.
• Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 May 2017Partnership with SBB for textile interiors in new high-speed double-deck intercity trains (Bombardier Twindexx Swiss Express). Also involved in Ideenzug innovation project for future public transport concepts.
• Swiss TextilesminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with Swiss Textile industry association for events including Swiss Pavilion at Architecture Biennale Venice and Swiss Parliament events.
• Ueli Alder (Photographer)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArtistic collaboration featuring photographic art by Ueli Alder showcasing Appenzell landscape. Born 1979, studied at Zurich University of the Arts and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is displayed at Tisca facilities.
• Textilmuseum St.GallenminorGTM or Marketing PartnerExhibition partnership for MIRA-X by Tisca: Die totale Wohnharmonie at the Textile Museum St.Gallen (27.04-30.09.2018).
• Galerie HadjerminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerARTIST RUG COLLECTION collaboration between Tisca France (Manufacture de tapis de Bourgogne) and Galerie Hadjer for edited rug collections.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Balsan: French carpet manufacturer (Arthun) producing broadloom, carpet tiles, and custom printed carpets for commercial, hospitality, and public-sector projects. Closely aligned to Tisca France (Manufacture de tapis de Bourgogne) in product range and customer profile.
• Interface: Global leader in modular carpet tiles and commercial flooring, with strong presence in corporate offices, hospitality, and public buildings — directly overlapping Tisca's core commercial segments. Both compete for architectural-specification projects emphasizing sustainability and acoustic performance.
• Condor Carpets: Belgian-based carpet manufacturer with woven and tufted product lines serving residential, contract, and tufted printed carpet segments across Europe. Comparable mid-sized European competitor with similar product breadth.
• Ruckstuhl: Swiss heritage manufacturer of woven and hand-tufted carpets for commercial and residential interiors, headquartered in St. Gallen. Closely comparable Swiss Mittelstand peer with similar premium positioning, woven/needle-punch technology base, and emphasis on design-led architectural specifications.
• Vorwerk Flooring: German premium manufacturer of tufted and woven carpets for residential and commercial markets. Comparable in scale, technology base (tufting and weaving), and emphasis on design awards and European craftsmanship positioning.
• Création Baumann: Swiss manufacturer of high-end curtain, decorative, and upholstery fabrics headquartered in Langenthal. Direct comparable for Tisca's Mira X collection across design-driven interior textile specification channels, particularly in hotels and public buildings.
• Lantal Textiles: Swiss manufacturer of textiles and carpets for aircraft, railway, bus, and ship interiors. Closest direct peer to Tisca's Mobility Textiles division, sharing the Swiss heritage, premium aviation/rail customer base, and need for stringent aerospace certifications.

Broad incumbents

• Mohawk Industries: World's largest flooring manufacturer (US-listed), with broad carpet, ceramic, and laminate portfolios. Competes with Tisca in commercial and hospitality carpet globally; sets the competitive ceiling on scale and R&D intensity.
• Tarkett (Desso): Major European flooring group whose Desso carpet-tile division directly competes with Tisca in commercial carpet, while also offering vinyl, wood, and rubber — a much broader portfolio serving overlapping corporate, healthcare, and public-sector customers.

Emerging players

• Polytan: German sports-surface specialist offering artificial turf and athletics tracks, overlapping with Tisca's SPORTISCA division in football and multi-sport turf. Comparable in serving sports facilities and stadiums, though larger and more specialized.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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