Diyarbakır
Production Facility

The Factory That
Changed the Industry

Until Isco built the Diyarbakır facility, there was no European manufacturer of fibre composite toecaps. Every European safety shoe brand that wanted to offer a non-metallic composite toecap model had only one option: source from Asia. That meant long lead times, long supply chains, high minimum order quantities, and no European certified quality oversight.

Isco invested in purpose-built compression moulding infrastructure and built the technical expertise to manufacture fibre composite toecaps to EN ISO 22568-2 on the European continent — for the first time. The Diyarbakır factory is that investment made real, and it remains the only facility of its kind in Europe.

European Production —
A Compliance Advantage

For European safety shoe brands, sourcing composite toecaps from Asia has always carried risk: long lead times, exposure to shipping disruptions, difficult quality oversight, and now increasing regulatory pressure around supply chain traceability and due diligence.

Isco's Diyarbakır facility produces fibre composite toecaps within the European supply chain — enabling shorter lead times, easier quality audit access, REACH-compliant production documentation, and a supplier relationship you can visit and verify directly.

For brands facing increasing due diligence obligations under European supply chain legislation, this is not just a preference — it is becoming a compliance requirement.