Dinarsu Starts Polyester Yarn Production
The company, which produces a thousand tons of yarn per month in its 140 thousand m2 facilities in Tekirdağ Çerkezköy Organized Industrial Zone, plans to increase the area of the facility to 160 thousand square meters and its yarn production capacity to 2,500 tons per month.
In an interview with Dünya Newspaper, Dinarsu General Manager Bahadır Aksoy announced that they will start producing polyester in addition to polypropylene and polyamide yarn production at their Çerkezköy facility. Aksoy said, ‘‘The assembly work of the production line has started. We will start polyester yarn production by commissioning in the first quarter of 2022.’’
Annual Carpet Production Capacity of 50 Million Square Meters
Expressing that they have an annual carpet production capacity of 50 million square meters, Aksoy stated the following, ‘‘We are on the way to have a say in raw material and yarn in Europe and the world. In addition, we aim to supply the polyester that we will obtain from recycled raw materials. In addition to our production continuing on 140 thousand square meters, we will increase this figure to 160 thousand square meters with a yarn facility of 20 thousand square meters. With the existing investments, we will increase our employment by 35 percent.’’
Noting that they export to many countries, especially the USA, England, and Germany, Aksoy underlined that 60 percent of the exports to the USA and more than 50 percent of the exports to Europe are made by Dinarsu in the Turkish tufting carpet sector. Indicating that they are building one of Europe’s largest warehouses for wall-to-wall carpets in Çerkezköy, Aksoy continued his statements as follows, ‘‘Our 20 thousand square meter warehouse in our Tekirdağ facility has a total carpet storage volume of 5.5 million square meters. Our new warehouse investment will pave the way for an increase in our service quality and will enable us to deliver the desired orders more quickly. By working with stock, we will fulfill customer requests immediately.’’
Produces 50 Million Square Meters of Carpet Annually
Dinarsu Deputy General Manager Ceyhun Topçu, on the other hand, declared the following: “A facility with the same tufting production capacity of the Dinarsu production facility, which is part of Erdemoğlu Holding, was established in Gaziantep. The new tufting carpet investments made within Merinos became operational as of January 2022 and we have reached an annual production volume of 50 million square meters. Here, we aim to increase our exports in the Middle East and America region.” Expressing that approximately 40 percent of their production consists of washable carpets, Topçu stated that the remaining part consists of wall-to-wall carpets.
Plans to Export $100 Million Tufting Carpets in 2022
Furthermore, the company produces acrylic and acrylic-wool-nylon blended knitwear yarn for the domestic market and export under the Akal brand in its Zonguldak factory. The factory, which was transferred to Erdemoğlu with a capacity of 9 thousand tons/year in 2011, reached an annual capacity of 18 thousand tons with the investments made. Bahadır Aksoy stated that they will increase their production capacity to 20 thousand tons in 2022 with the new investments, and continued as follows, ‘‘In this period, we have reached a capacity of 17 thousand tons/year in our production facility, which we established in Besni under Merinos, which produces knitwear yarn with the brand Akal. Our 2022 target capacity will be 20 thousand tons/year. We produce approximately 40 percent of the knitwear yarn produced in our country, and we aim to increase this rate to 50 percent with our new investments.’’
Emphasizing that the demand surge that came with the pandemic has increased the freight prices by about 3 times, Dinarsu Export Manager Gökhan Erdem said that they aim to close the year 2022 with an export volume of 100 million dollars on the tufting carpet side.
