BURSA, TK—Onur Karapinar expects to bring new life to ON-EM Upholstery. He assumed responsibility for managing ON-EM after the passing of his father and ON-EM founder Sagip Karapinar in 2016. Onur was in the label business and is adding the upholstery operations to his portfolio. “We are starting from scratch with this business,” Onur explains. “We want to build 10-15 countries into new export markets for ON-EM,” he adds. ON-EM has agents in place and will bring new yarns and constructions to the business, We also have a new General Manager involved along with a Chief Designer. They’re being challenged to do new designs.” Part of his transition to President was to rehire Cenk Tuzcu, the previous partner and founder of ON-EM who was previously with Carina for nine years as sales manager. Tuzcu came back to ON-EM this past November. The other team member is Sefa Karaaslan, longtime friend and owner of Armado, a Poznan, Poland based upholstery distributor that was started 25 years ago. He was with the company for 20 years. At the same time, Nafi Seferoglu, an original partner, left ON-EM to become involved with Onna Tekstil, a commission weaver, also in Bursa. ON-EM, with 16 jacquard looms, produces residential and contract upholstery on a 70/30 basis. The range is priced from $4 to $20 a yard with the most expensive products featuring Trevira® yarn, Onur says.