Textiles El Haddadi: Leading Exporter and Recycler of Secondhand Textiles

Company overview

Textiles El Haddadi, S.L., trading as HADATEX, is a Spanish sorter and exporter of used textiles in Cocentaina, in the province of Alicante, working from premises of several hundred square metres. It buys used clothing from Germany, England, Holland and Spain, grades it, and exports worldwide.

Cocentaina is worth noting in itself. This small inland town in Alicante hosts more than one sorting operation, and the concentration is not accidental: the Alcoy and Cocentaina valley has been a textile district for generations, so the labour that knows how to judge a garment by touch was already there when the used-clothing trade arrived.

The process, in the order they describe it

Incoming material is first split into product families, namely clothing, shoes, accessories and textile toys. Each family is then classified by quality grade, and only after that is the product folded and packed to the specification of the buyer. That sequence matters: family first, grade second means the grade label applies within a category rather than across a mixed pile, which is the more useful of the two possible orders.

The grade ladder is published in unusual detail

Most companies in this directory name two or three grades. HADATEX sets out a full ladder for each family.

• Lo más, the top step: new, unworn, current-season, aimed mainly at European buyers.
• Grade A: individual, fashionable pieces with recognised brands.
• Grades B and C below that.
• Shoes in three grades, A, B and C, all stated to be free of dirt and holes, bagged at 25 to 30 kg with the option to adapt.
• Home textiles, meaning sheets, duvets, bedspreads and pillows, in grades A and B.
• Toys, as-new and grade A.

The company also states that garments in its two flagship lines are checked to be free of holes and stains. That is a specific, checkable promise rather than an adjective, and it is the kind of sentence to quote back in an email before your first order so that it becomes part of the agreement. If the grade names are unfamiliar, the trade grade glossary explains what A, B and C usually mean elsewhere and where a house term like Lo más tends to sit.

Two products named after their markets

The most interesting thing on the site is that two lines are named for their destinations rather than their contents:

• Mix Tropical: summer clothing, normally supplied in bales of around 450 to 500 kg, checked for holes and stains.
• Especial Pakistan: winter clothing, specified as children's wear, jackets, corduroy trousers, jeans and bed sheets, likewise checked.

Almost every sorter says it understands its markets. Building named products around them is a stronger claim, because a named line has to be filled every week from whatever the intake happens to contain, and that is an operational commitment rather than a sentence on a homepage.

The composition of Especial Pakistan is itself useful information for anyone new to that trade. Corduroy trousers and bed sheets are not what a European retailer would put in a winter selection, and their presence tells you what actually sells in that market. Read the two lines together and you have a short lesson in how the same warehouse serves opposite hemispheres, which is the same logic that drives how sorting houses split a single intake into very different outputs.

The cascade runs all the way down

What is no longer wearable becomes industrial cleaning cloth, and HADATEX publishes eight named types: first-quality white, heavy sweatshirt, light sweatshirt, mixed white, knitted white, polo shirt, multicolour towelling and multicolour. Below that sits the last step, material unsuitable even for cleaning, which is reduced to shoddy fibre for making new fabric.

Few companies publish the whole cascade from top grade to fibre. For a buyer it is worth more than it looks, because it shows where your bale sits in the chain and how the economics work. A sorter that earns something from every step, including the bottom, has less reason to pad a wearable bale with what should have gone to the rag line. Anyone comparing second-hand clothing suppliers should ask each one what happens to the fraction that fails the sort, and treat a detailed answer as the good sign it is.

Ordering

Packing is done to buyer specification in bales, sacks or bags, so state your format and your tolerance in writing along with the grade. Prices are not published and quotes come by request. Note also that the intake comes from four collection countries, so it is worth asking which origin your line is drawn from, since German and British original behave differently in most destination markets.

Contact is [email protected], +34 966 500 743 or +34 678 823 814, with a fax on +34 96 650 10 49. Anyone assembling a wholesale programme across categories will find the breadth here useful, since clothing, footwear, home textiles, accessories and toys come from one supplier and one paperwork chain.

Frequently asked questions

Where is HADATEX based?

In Cocentaina, province of Alicante, Spain, operating as Textiles El Haddadi, S.L. from premises of several hundred square metres.

Where does the clothing come from?

It is selected from Germany, England, Holland and Spain, then graded in Spain and exported worldwide.

What grades are available?

Lo más for new and unworn stock, Grade A for branded fashionable pieces, then grades B and C. Shoes are graded A, B and C, home textiles A and B, and toys as-new and grade A.

What are Mix Tropical and Especial Pakistan?

Mix Tropical is summer clothing supplied in bales of about 450 to 500 kg. Especial Pakistan is winter clothing made up of children's wear, jackets, corduroy trousers, jeans and bed sheets. Both are stated to be checked for holes and stains.

How is the product packed?

To buyer specification in bales, sacks or bags. Shoes are normally bagged at 25 to 30 kg, and that can be adapted.