Mobacotext Ltd - Leading Textile Recycling and Export Company

Company overview

MOBACOTEX is a Spanish wholesaler and exporter of used clothing at Partida El Altet 71, Nave 59, L'Alquería de Aznar, in the province of Alicante. It states more than 30 years in the trade, works in sorted and unsorted goods, and describes itself as exporting all of its output, with Europe, Africa, Pakistan and India named as markets.

Contact is [email protected], +34 638 593 299 and +34 965 590 550. The company also runs a second domain under the name Mobacotex Ropa Usada, and invites buyers to visit and inspect the premises.

L'Alquería de Aznar makes this the sixth supplier in this directory from inland Alicante. Counting Cocentaina, Castalla, Onil, Agullent and now Alquería de Aznar, six of the companies listed here sit within roughly thirty kilometres of one another in the old textile belt around Alcoy, which is the densest concentration of used-clothing businesses anywhere in the directory.

An unusual warning about this company's website

Something needs saying plainly, because it changes how you should read everything else.

The text on this company's site is almost word for word identical to the text on the site of another supplier in the same province, also listed in this directory. The same self-description, the same four-step process under the headings Collection, Classification, Packaging and Selling, the same list of markets, and the same packing specification down to the individual numbers.

The likeliest explanation is innocent. Small firms in a tight geographic cluster often use the same local web agency, and that agency reuses a template including the body copy. It happens across every trade and it is not evidence of anything improper by either company.

But the consequence for you as a buyer is the same whatever the cause: this website cannot be used as evidence about this particular plant. When two suppliers publish identical bale weights, identical grade language and identical process descriptions, at most one of them is describing its own operation, and possibly neither is. Every specification on such a site has to be confirmed against the actual business before you rely on it.

How to check this yourself, on any supplier

This is a habit worth building, because shared copy is common in this trade and easy to detect.

Take a distinctive sentence from a supplier's site, one with an unusual construction or a specific number in it, put it in quotation marks and search for it. If it appears on three other companies' sites, you have learned something important in ten seconds: the words in front of you describe a template rather than a warehouse. Then throw away the page and ask for the same information by email, where an answer is attributable to a person.

Anyone comparing several second-hand clothing suppliers should run that check before building a shortlist, because two entries that look like independent confirmation of the same practice may be one text copied twice.

What the site states, with that caveat attached

Read the following as claims to verify rather than as established facts about this plant:

• Material described as coming from the European market, including goods from England.
• A process of inspection of original bags, then classification with garments reviewed several times, then packing.
• Bales from 45 kg up to 500 kg, bags of 30 kg, or packed to order, with shoes in bags of 25 kg and 30 kg.
• Shipment in 20 ft or 40 ft high cube containers, with quantities guaranteed.
• Monthly booking, so a buyer receives a continuous and stable shipment schedule rather than one-off loads.
• Other lines including used jeans for recycling, household rummage, toys and belts, plus stocklots and liquidations.

The monthly booking arrangement is worth asking about specifically, because a standing shipment is genuinely valuable if the specification holds steady and worthless if it does not. Ask what is fixed in such an arrangement, what floats, and what happens in a month when the intake mix changes. The grade vocabulary is the reference for pinning down what you are actually being promised, and the account of how sorting houses divide an intake explains why a plant cannot hold every grade steady at once.

What is genuinely specific to this company

Three things are its own and can be relied on. The address is real and specific down to the industrial unit, which is more than several entries in this directory offer. Two telephone numbers and a working email are published, one of them a landline in the Alicante area code, which matters because a landline ties a business to premises. And the invitation to visit and inspect the installation is an offer worth taking up, since it is the only way to resolve everything the website leaves uncertain.

If you are already sourcing from the Alicante cluster, a visit to one town covers several suppliers in a single trip, and the inland belt is about an hour from Alicante airport. For a wholesale buyer that combination, a real address plus an open-door invitation in a cluster you can tour in a day, is the practical value of this entry, rather than anything printed on the site.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Mobacotext based?

At Partida El Altet 71, Nave 59, L'Alquería de Aznar, province of Alicante, Spain, in the inland textile belt around Alcoy.

Why does the card warn about the website?

Because the site text is nearly identical to that of another supplier in the same province, most likely a shared web agency template. Whatever the cause, the published specifications need confirming directly before you rely on them.

What packing does the site claim?

Bales from 45 kg to 500 kg, bags of 30 kg or packing to order, shoes in 25 kg and 30 kg bags, shipped in 20 ft or 40 ft high cube containers. Confirm these figures by email.

Can I arrange regular monthly shipments?

The site offers monthly booking for a continuous supply. Ask what is fixed and what floats in that arrangement before committing.

Can I visit the premises?

Yes, the company invites buyers to visit and inspect the installation, which is the most reliable way to verify what the website cannot.