Royal Ten Cate (established in 1704), a leading world-wide manufacturer of specialized technical components and technical textiles. It\'s behind a wide range of advanced materials: innovative technical textiles, such as aerospace composites, synthetic grass, protective fabrics and geosynthetics. These products are applied in projects all over the world. For Ten Cate, protection and safety are mayor topics; therefore the company applies high quality standards.
Royal Ten Cate is a technology driven, internationally operating company with 3,650 employees (of which 1,600 are working in the Netherlands).
Through constant exertions in the field of Research & Development on new varieties and technical applications, Royal Ten Cate has gained a leading position in some niche-markets.
Royal Ten Cate is listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
Ten Cate Thiolon, a subsidiary of Royal Ten Cate, is an innovative, strong growing industrial company which produces artificial grass fibers for sports surfaces (hockey, football, American football, tennis, golf etc).
These fibers are sold worldwide to producers of sports fields. Ten Cate Thiolon is a worldwide market leader in this sector and there are 370 people working in the Netherlands and in Dayton (USA).
Royal Ten Cate Pacific was opened based in Hong Kong in 2004, as an important branch of Royal Ten Cate to develop business in Asia. Royal Ten Cate Pacific officially registers and opens Beijing Representative Office in 2005 for expanding marketing and sales in P.R.China, the current business unit here is Ten Cate Thiolon Asia.