Teinture de Saint Jean

What Teinture de Saint Jean does

Teinture de Saint Jean (TSJ), legally TEINTURE DE SAINT-JEAN S.A., is an independent French textile finisher (façonnier) founded in 2003 and headquartered at 5 Avenue Victor Hugo, Saint-Jean-la-Bussière, France. The company provides contract ennoblement services — dyeing, aqueous-phase coating, chemical finishing, and mechanical finishing — for technical textiles serving demanding end sectors including aeronautics, defense/armament, military, luxury goods, and leather goods. Production covers fabric widths from 120–240 cm and weights from 40–800 g/m², with batch dyeing capability of 100–800 kg via 7 autoclaves, 11 jiggers (130°C, 110°C, and 90°C), jets (1–4 tubes), and 3 overflows, supported by a dual-head coating line, 2 stenters (7 compartments each), calenders, and a laboratory performing EN ISO-standard testing. Daily finishing capacity is stated at 100,000 meters.

The company operates a quote-based B2B industrial services model, selling customized finishing capacity directly to enterprise clients under confidentiality agreements and verifying each production run via in-house laboratory testing and a camera-assisted manual inspection team of 8 staff. Revenue is generated almost exclusively from a single service line — contract textile finishing — with no disclosed pricing, recurring SaaS or product revenue streams, no disclosed funding, no parent company, and no public listing; the firm appears to be privately and founder-controlled. Credentials include ISO 14001 environmental certification (since 2014) and OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 membership, both cited as prerequisites for the firm's target verticals. Marketing is conducted through a trilingual corporate website (French, English, German); no app products, third-party integrations, or digital channels beyond the website are in evidence.

Name

Teinture de Saint Jean

Legal name

TEINTURE DE SAINT-JEAN S.A.

Website

https://tsj.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Teinture de Saint Jean is an independent French textile finisher founded in 2003, providing contract dyeing, aqueous-phase coating, chemical, and mechanical finishing for technical textiles serving aeronautics, defense, luxury, and military clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Technical Textile Finishing Services

NAICS

Textile and Fabric Finishing and Fabric Coating Mills (3133)

SIC

Textile Mill Products (2200)

akta.pro primary industry

Finishing & Dyeing Contract Services (Job Work/Toll Processing) (IMAOACAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Protective & Safety Textiles (FR/Arc/Heat/Cut/Chemical) (IMAOADAA)

Keywords

• Technical textile finishing
• Industrial textile dyeing
• Aqueous phase coating
• Chemical textile finishing
• Mechanical textile finishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint-Jean-la-Bussière

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Textile Finishing Services: Contract textile finishing (ennoblissement) services for technical textiles including dyeing, coating, chemical finishings, and mechanical finishings. Services are customized to client specifications with quality control guarantees.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Teinture de Saint Jean (TSJ) is an independent contract textile finisher (façonnier) that performs ennoblement services on technical and industrial textiles. The company provides dyeing, aqueous-phase coating, chemical finishing, and mechanical finishing operations for woven and non-woven fabrics, supported by in-house laboratory testing, quality inspection, and pre-production R&D for demanding sectors including aeronautics, defense, and luxury goods.

Product overview

Teinture de Saint Jean (TSJ) is an independent textile ennobling/finishing manufacturer founded in 2003, specializing in technical textiles. The company operates a diverse portfolio of textile processing services comprising: Dyeing (handling multiple fiber compositions and colorant types across various widths and weights), Coating (water-based coatings for military and leather goods applications), Chemical Finishing (impermeability, fireproofing, and specialized treatments), Mechanical Finishing (air permeability control and surface enhancement via calendering), Quality Control and Inspection (laboratory testing and camera-based product inspection), and Research & Development (specification analysis and pre-production sampling). These services are delivered through specialized industrial equipment including autoclaves, jets, jiggers, overflows, coating lines, stenters, and calenders, enabling TSJ to serve demanding sectors including aeronautics, armament, and luxury.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dyeing Services
• Coating Services
• Chemical Finishing
• Mechanical Finishing
• Quality Control and Inspection
• Research and Development

Quantifiable outcome

• 100,000 meters/day processing capacity with stenters
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Best dye and chemical products supplierscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with leading dye and chemical product suppliers enabling TSJ to dye all warp and weft woven and non-woven textiles with high visibility, washfastness, lightfastness, and infrared properties.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Verseidag-Indutex: German technical textiles producer specializing in coated and finished fabrics for architectural, automotive and industrial end uses, comparable to TSJ in coated technical substrate manufacturing.
• Sefar Group: Swiss precision fabric manufacturer offering weaving, finishing and coating of technical textiles for filtration, automotive and industrial applications — comparable to TSJ's technical finishing capability.
• Sioen Industries: Belgian-headquartered technical textiles group with a coating/finishing division serving aerospace, defense, and industrial applications — closely comparable to TSJ's aqueous-phase coating and finishing services on technical substrates.
• Schoeller Textil: Swiss technical textiles company offering finishing and coating technologies (e.g., Schoeller dryside/wetside processes) for performance, protective and industrial fabrics — overlapping finishing capability with TSJ.
• Serge Ferrari: French competitor specializing in coated technical textiles for architecture, industry and defense, with proprietary coating know-how and similar European customer base in demanding specification segments.
• Low & Bonar (Filc): European technical nonwoven and coated textiles producer serving construction, automotive and industrial markets with similar finishing/coating capability profile to TSJ.
• Porcher Industries: French technical textiles manufacturer with coating, finishing and treatment capabilities serving aerospace, defense, automotive and industrial markets — direct overlap with TSJ's ennoblement service model.

Broad incumbents

• Teijin Frontier: Japanese textile producer offering high-performance fibers and finished/coated technical fabrics for safety, aerospace and industrial markets — comparable end-market focus with broader product portfolio.
• Saint-Gobain ADFORS: Division of Saint-Gobain manufacturing coated and finished technical textiles for construction, automotive and industrial uses — overlapping capability with TSJ but as part of a much larger building-materials conglomerate.
• Trelleborg (Engineered Coated Fabrics): Large Swedish engineered polymers group with a coated fabrics division serving aerospace, defense and industrial customers — broader portfolio but directly competing in coated technical textiles.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/teinture-de-saint-jean

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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