“We Began to Receive More Requests from Domestic Users”
We interviewed with Uscan Uskaner, Uslan R&D Company Official, for our Tekstil Teknoloji magazine. Uskaner said that they have developed their machines more compact and more financeable in line with the demands of their customers in this process where domestic manufacturers are needed.
Evaluating the developments in the world, Uskaner explains the effects of the post-pandemic situations on his companies as follows: “Although we are going through challenging times, we believe that we will overcome these processes as Turkey. In this process we are going through, customers started to show secondary interest in textile products such as apparel, clothing, upholstery and carpets. The pandemic period also affected our order rates. We can say that there are two main effects. The first of these effects was that companies turned towards the local market. Technologies that used to be preferred to be imported are being replaced by exports. For this reason, we now receive more demand from local users. The second effect is that the requirements for basic necessities and machinery have increased and become more widespread.”
Uskaner stated that Turkey has a very strong infrastructure in the fields of technology and engineering and has trained qualified personnel, and that they focus on important issues such as technical textiles and textile technology in their work. Uskaner talked about their ongoing projects as follows; “The TÜBİTAK Project, which we completed in 2021-2022, gave us new ideas for synthetic yarn technologies. Subsequently, we aimed to produce 12 filament yarn with a thickness of 20 dpf (denier per filament) with our ‘Uslan MY24’ spinning machine, which is still being installed as we approach the end of 2022. The use of these yarns, whose market name is ‘Mother Yarn’, is quite common, but very few manufacturers in our country produce only enough for themselves. The rest of the consumption is unfortunately imported. In the current crisis conditions, import items need to be reduced. Foreseeing these challenging processes where the market needs domestic producers, we have made our machines more compact and easier to finance. With the Uslan POY/FDY type machine, we have prepared a multi-purpose system that will meet many needs. We started to appeal to a wide audience with this system, which was commissioned in late 2022. We designed new subsystems and modules for the ‘High Tenacity Yarn Machine’. Our work for 2023 continues.”
‘‘Working for an environmentally friendly and sustainable world’’
Underlining that they work for an environmentally friendly and sustainable world by adhering to the main objectives of Uslan R&D, Uscan Uskaner commented on their sustainable and environmentally friendly products: “On this path we started with polypropylene yarns, we realized how important the yarns dyed in the extruder are. In addition to dyed yarns such as PET and PA, machines that can produce self-dyed yarns are preferred more frequently. In addition, for the use of recycled raw materials, which is one of the most important issues in the plastics industry, we strengthened our environmentally friendly production efforts with the ‘POY/FDY Yarn Machine from Broken PET Bottles’ supported by TÜBİTAK in 2013. Today, we use recycled plastics for all our systems that can work with PET raw materials without any option. We are also trying to motivate yarn manufacturers in this sense. We are looking for new structures that are more efficient and consume less energy and we are constantly renewing our subsystems.”
Uskaner said that synthetic yarn production technologies will grow further by combining higher quality, performance and efficiency with structures customized for technical textiles, defense industry and medical products, and that artificial intelligence and visual analysis applications that learn from human errors will be introduced; “Innovations such as tricomponent yarns as the successor of bicomponent fibers and laboratory-scale conductive fiber production machines for wearable technologies are on the agenda. The important thing is to produce innovations that will become trends. We are working for this.”
“Our Order Requests Increased with ITM 2022 Exhibition”
Evaluating the year 2022 for Uslan R&D company, Uskaner explains that they entered an intense period in which they gained at least 5 years of experience in a year and a half: “In mid-2021, we activated the Polypropylene CF spinning machine with a capacity of 8 tons/day in Adana. At the end of the year, we commissioned two different Polypropylene CF spinning machines, 4 tons/day and 8 tons/day. In this process, the design and R&D processes of the Bicomponent spinning machine, Uslan Spinlab POY/FDY sample machine were completed. With the beginning of 2022, Uslan PET HT8, USLAN POY, USLAN POY/FDY spinning machines were installed while the production of these products continued. In mid-2022, our demands increased simultaneously with the ITM 2022 exhibition. In a year and a half, we had a brisk period, gaining at least 5 years of experience.”
The company, which actively continues its R&D activities, continues to work without slowing down. The company, which needs systems that will increase the quality of raw materials and deepens its research on this subject, continues many R&D studies created with TÜBİTAK 1501 projects.
Uscan Uskaner expressed the following statements regarding the subject; “We have created a test structure where we can get faster results for the R&D studies of our new machines and processes with the USLAN Spinlab machine that we have created thanks to this project program. We will offer our standard production and complete R&D studies in cooperation with our customers. In our new targets, instead of addressing the textile industry, we are looking for ways to benefit the polymer industry. We need systems that will improve the quality of raw materials and we have increased our research on this subject. As another issue, we are working on the development of take-up and winding systems.”
Uskaner concluded his remarks as follows; “In the market research conducted by MAKFED in 2020, the statistical results for textile machinery, especially for synthetic yarn production machines, were not encouraging. Our primary goal as USLAN R&D and YGN Mekatronik was to eliminate this deficiency. We participated in the 1st Textile Machinery Symposium, which we organized for the first time this year, where we met with our stakeholders by saying ‘Give direction to textile with your own technology’. When I saw the impact of this symposium and the motivation of the participants, it was hard not to get hopeful. We believe that we are on the right track and we continue with determination.”
