is an Indian manufacturing company that manufactures zippers, sliders and other fastening products. Tex is a much smaller company than market leader standard published by the
International Organization For Standardization (ISO).
Tex was formed in
New Delhi , India in
1987 by a group of
Indian Institutes Of Management alumni. Tex Corp is still a privately held company being managed by the same group of people who formed it. The company was moved in the early
1990s to a then developing suburb of Delhi called
Gurgaon for more manufacturing space. Recently, Tex Corp has set up a manufacturing unit in
Roorkee in the state of
Uttarakhand .
Tex's key competitors include YKK, TOLON,
NEO and other global zipper brands.
When formed, Tex Corp was called "GAPPS Industries, Limited". GAPPS was an
Acronym that stood for the first names of each of the founders. "Tex" was then the primary zipper brand of GAPPS. The name was changed from GAPPS to Tex recently to avoid confusion with
The Gap clothing company.
