Threads by the thousands, multicolored and of all kinds: this is the decor of the Jura company Flasa. The worsted wool spinning mill of Ajoie SA, established in Alle in 1934, today employs around sixty people and manufactures yarns for TGV seats, fireproof for planes, high resistance for firefighters or even for textiles. such as underwear and socks. Flasa has customers in fifteen countries.
Adding color is an art
Dyeing is an essential step at Flasa. Christelle Walch has seen threads in several thousand colors pass through in the 31 years that she has worked in the ajoulote company. “I am in charge of developing the new colors,” explains Flasa’s dyeing manager. Christelle Walch has noticed an evolution in tastes over the past three decades: “An evolution in terms of colors, which are much more vivid today. In the past, the colors were duller, more versatile,” she says passionately.
Ancestral know-how and diversification
Up to 440 employees supported the Flasa company in Alle. The spinning mill, which now has 60 employees, has diversified. It now combines its historical activity, spinning, and the development of an “energy” center and an “ecopole”. The mixture of ancestral and innovative know-how when the company is a family affair, as André-Jean Six, Flasa manager, says: “It was my grandfather Edouard Six who dared to come and set up a textile in a country that was not. The installation of some 6,500 solar panels on its roof and the welcoming of other companies to its premises are some of the diversifications put in place by the ajoulote company “so that it makes sense”, adds André- John Six. /mmi