‘‘Our export figures account for 80 percent of our sales volume’’

Cem Kesim, Temsan Company Owner 

Temsan serves the textile machinery sector under the brands Temsan Air Engineering and Temsan Textile Machinery. In 2002, the company started its first exports, and exports account for 80% of its current sales.

Temsan Company Owner Cem Kesim, whom we conducted an interview for the special issue of Tekstil Teknoloji magazine ‘Turkish Textile Machinery Manufacturers’, answered the questions we asked about the usage areas, order and export rates of their products and commented on the year 2022.

‘‘We aim to maximize sustainable production’’

Can you please provide information about your product portfolio and areas of use?

As Temsan Air Engineering, we produce air conditioning and filter systems to increase the production efficiency and comfort of textile factories that produce yarn production, woven fabric production, knitted fabric production, nonwoven fabric production and many other textile products.

We offer a more comfortable environment for both employees and machines while ensuring that the machines operate at maximum efficiency in modern textile factories with air conditioning systems that we design specifically for each facility. With our automatic filtration and collection systems, we obtain reusable outputs and aim to maximize sustainable production.

In addition, we produce machines such as fiber recycling machine, indigo slasher dyeing machine, stenter machine, pad steam, sizing machine and dock winding with our other division ‘Temsan Textile Machinery’. These machines, which are used in the fields of recycling, textile denim dyeing and textile finishing, are based on high technology and sustainability principles.

‘‘Our Systems Are Used in Every Textile Country’’

You install air handling units and filter systems in Turkey and different countries around the world. What are the countries/regions where your products are used? In this respect, can you please provide information about your sales network and organization in Turkey and the world?

Having exported in 2002 for the first time, our export figures today account for 80% of our sales. Our systems are used in almost every country where there is textile production. Among our main markets outside Turkey are: Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Egypt, Azerbaijan, USA, Turkmenistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Benin, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, Ukraine and Russia. In Turkey and Uzbekistan, we carry out our operations entirely with Temsan sales and technical teams. In other markets, we continue to work together with our representative offices.

With the recent energy crisis, energy efficiency, sustainability and environmentally friendly production have become very important in textiles as in all sectors. What do your products offer to customers in terms of energy saving? As a company, what will be your priorities when developing products in the new period?

Since its establishment, Temsan has focused on key issues such as automation, low energy consumption and sustainability and has broken new ground in the sector with bold steps. Temsan R&D Center has conducted more than 3000 tests of axial and radial fans at different flow rates and pressures. When selecting a fan for a system, the fan that consumes minimum energy while providing maximum performance is selected and placed at the optimum point for these conditions.  In the new year, we want to support our customers as much as possible in the energy crisis by improving our automation system and fan efficiencies with the work we have reached the final stages. Temsan, where sustainability is part of the company culture, is working hard to protect the ecological balance and reduce the carbon footprint with its machinery and systems.

What can you say about the importance of air conditioning systems in textile factories? What are the gains of the textile production facility using these systems?

Air conditioning is no longer an improvement but a necessity for textile mills. The fact that modern machines operate at very high speeds has made them extremely sensitive to in-factory weather conditions. This means that textile processes can operate at high efficiency within a certain range of humidity and temperature values. Humidity in the air provides flexibility to fibers, yarns and fabrics and plays an important role in maintaining commercial margins. Temperature, on the other hand, ensures that people and machines work in a comfortable environment and prevents mechanical and electronic parts of the machines from overheating and damage.

Can you please provide information about the systems you have developed for the textile industry and the success rates of these products?

In addition to our air conditioning systems, the automatic waste and dust collection systems we have developed and produced in-house are highly preferred by newly established factories and production facilities that currently operate under traditional conditions. The innovations and consistencies we realize in design as well as production make us one of the pioneers of many markets we are in.

‘‘2022 was a year of exciting projects’’

How was 2022 for your company? Can you please evaluate your production volume, orders and export markets? 

2022, like the last few years, was a very productive year in which we realized many exciting projects. Although there was a decline in the rate of increase in the number of projects in the second half of the year due to energy and some other cost increases, Temsan continues to move forward decisively by increasing our production capacity without any loss in our order volume. In exports, we opened up to new markets and developed our existing markets both in terms of interaction and business.

Can you please provide information about your R&D activities?

In 2018, our R&D department, which received the title of R&D Center, works very seriously on fans, which are the most energy-consuming parts of the air conditioning system. Temsan R&D Center has a fan test setup approved by Tübitak and compliant with AMCA standards, a test unit where atmosphere-factory-climate conditions are simulated, and a fan test tunnel at international standards.

What are your 2023 targets? Do you have new machinery and investment projects?

In 2023, we will start a new adventure with ITMA Milano. We will officially introduce the recycling machine, which we have just started to produce as a joint venture with a Swiss company, at ITMA. We are also excited about the new investments we are making with our group company Maritaş. We will continue to develop our products, markets and sales in line with the global economic conditions and increase the country’s export volume.