Investing in Brückner Stenter Machines from Arıkan Mensucat

Arıkan Mensucat Production Manager Harun Bilginer

The Turkish family-owned company Arıkan Mensucat Industry and Trade Inc. was founded in 1993 and is located in Kahramanmaraş. In addition to the classic textile trade, Arıkan was involved in yarn production in the early days and initially built a spinning mill. This was followed in 2008 by the construction of a knitting mill, and a few years later the dyeing and finishing divisions were added.

Today, the family-owned company employs around 1,500 people and finishes around 55 tons of knitwear every day. In addition to many well-known Turkish fashion manufacturers, Arıkan also supplies international manufacturers in Europe, Russia, the Gulf States and other leading international markets.

The German machinery manufacturer Brückner supports the Turkish company from the very be-ginning. From the foundation of the dyeing and finishing plant, Brückner supplied three stenters for the finishing of the high-quality knitted fabric in 2014. Two more lines followed in 2016. The company decided to buy another Brückner stenter machine in 2019.

Arıkan Mensucat, which attaches great importance to energy saving especially in the fabric finishing department, is currently negotiating for the Brückner line with very new features. This new line includes a combined heating system for the dryer. Soon when the latest line has been put into operation, a total of seven Brückner stenters will produce high-quality knitwear for the whole world at Arıkan.

“It saves energy and protects the environment”

The drying process is one of the most energy-intensive in the entire process chain, therefore the biggest savings can be made here. If the available steam is not sufficient for a running process, it is automatically switched over to gas heating. This mode of operation does not only have an effect on the energy costs, but also makes a considerable contribution to environmental protection.

For many customers – and so also for Arıkan in Turkey – e.g. steam energy is available free or very cheap.  Brückner has been offering combined heating systems for many years, depending on the customer’s requirements and the available resources.

Thanks to the development over many years of these combined systems and to a sophisticated software, the change-over to another energy source is nowadays carried out without any problems.

“The Brückner brand stands for quality, efficiency and innovation.”

Besides these advantages, the machine operators at Arıkan also appreciate the easy control of Brückner lines. The visualization is intuitively designed and offers many intelligent auxiliary systems for an optimized production process.

Also the very good accessibility of the line for maintenance and cleaning is also a plus point. In addition, significant energy savings can be achieved with just a few changes to the machine parameters. Sophisticated software provides machine operators with valuable information for this purpose.