SYRIAQUE CIE International Specialists in Secondhand Clothing Sorting and Wholesale

Company overview

Syriaque Cie SPRL is a Belgian sorting and export house for secondhand clothing, based in Brussels. It was founded in 1995 by Nadim Atmaja, known in the trade as Abou Georges, and is run as a family business now in its second generation, with his children working in it day to day.

The company describes its work in plain terms: incoming original material is sorted by cleanliness, by quality and by type, and the sorted output is exported. Nothing about the operation is presented as automated. The stated method is that every garment is examined individually, which the company links directly to fewer sorting errors and less waste in the bale.

What Syriaque Cie supplies

The product range covers clothing and accessories for men, women and children:

• Jackets, shirts and blouses
• Skirts and dresses
• Trousers for men, women and children
• Polo shirts, T-shirts and sweatshirts
• Knitwear
• Baby items, underwear, sportswear and shorts
• Home textiles
• Bags
• Shoes and boots
• Toys

The five export classes

Rather than a single grade ladder, Syriaque Cie sells five defined classes, each aimed at a different destination market:

• Summer - extra quality and branded pieces
• Winter - quality no. 1 and no. 2
• Africa export - quality no. 1, no. 2 and no. 3
• Shoes
• Boots

For a buyer this matters more than it looks. The class names carry the destination logic inside them, so a quotation for "quality no. 1" means something different in the winter line than in the Africa line. Ask which class a price refers to before comparing it with an offer from another supplier.

Packing and shipping

Goods are pressed into bales or packed in plastic sacks and loaded into 20-foot or 40-foot containers. Both the packing method and the container size are worth confirming at the quotation stage: loose sacks and pressed bales unload at very different speeds, and that difference lands in your warehouse cost rather than in the price per kilo.

What happens to unusable material

Items too worn to enter a wearable class are not simply discarded. The company passes them to third-party processors that convert them into wiping rags, wool and acrylic, heavy wool, plastic, synthetic fibre, denim and feather. For a buyer this is a useful signal about the sorting line itself: a supplier with a defined route for the bottom of the intake has an incentive to keep that material out of the wearable bales.

Reading the company's own claims

Syriaque Cie states three operating values - quality, service and continuity - and rests its case on longevity and reputation rather than on volume figures. It publishes no tonnage, no headcount and no capacity numbers, and its own site carries an unfinished section marker where photographs were meant to go. None of that is evidence against the business; it means the operational scale has to be established in conversation rather than read off the website. Ask for current-week bale photographs and a written class specification before the first order, as you would with any supplier that does not publish figures.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Syriaque Cie based and how long has it operated?

The company is based in Brussels, Belgium, and was founded in 1995. It is a family business now in its second generation.

What grades does Syriaque Cie sell?

Five classes: Summer with extra quality and branded pieces, Winter in quality no. 1 and no. 2, an Africa export line in quality no. 1, no. 2 and no. 3, and separate Shoes and Boots lines.

Does the company sort its own goods or resell bales?

It sorts. The company receives original unsorted material and separates it by cleanliness, quality and type before export, and states that each garment is examined individually.

How are orders packed and shipped?

In pressed bales or plastic sacks, loaded into 20-foot or 40-foot containers. Confirm which of the two you are quoted for, because unloading time differs substantially.

What does Syriaque Cie do with worn-out textiles?

They go to third-party processors and are converted into wiping rags, wool and acrylic, heavy wool, plastic, synthetic fibre, denim and feather.