Siegwerk finishes construction of its Turkish site

Siegwerk has completed a significant investment project for the reconstruction of its site in Tuzla, Turkey, to increase local production and storage capacities while improving efficiency and safety.

Siegwerk has completed a significant investment project for the reconstruction of its site in Tuzla, Turkey

The company improved both efficiency and safety at its regional headquarters and increased its production and storage capacities that will enable further grow and strengthen its market position in the region.

Next to producing solvent-based inks and varnishes the site in Tuzla also distributes the company’s sheetfed and narrow web products to customers in Turkey, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia as well as Egypt and serves Siegwerk’s entities in Nigeria and South Africa.

The investment project, especially focused on safety requirements and storage expansion involving several architectural, mechanical, electrical, and fire safety work streams.

‘After a series of detailed engineering studies, we have started with the reconstruction of our facility in 2017. Since mid of 2020 we are now officially allowed to fully operate in our modernized building,’ said Mustafa Güler, vice president EMEA, business unit sheetfed and managing director for Turkey and Middle East at Siegwerk.

The redesign activities at the site in Tuzla increased the per hour output by 20 percent to a total production capacity of 20,000 tons and created 20 additional jobs bringing the total number of employees to 130.

‘With the completion of the project, we have now upgraded the site in accordance with all recent legal requirements for fire and work safety and have increased our warehouse capacity in order to pave the way for future growth,’ added Güler. ‘We have even mastered the challenge to build a state-of-the-art facility that meets the highest safety standards without stopping operations for just one single day. This is a huge milestone for our team.’

The reconstruction project has not only included investments in the redesign of existing buildings like laboratory, production, or a warehouse, but also in new technologies such as a new ventilation system in the production area, fully automatic filling and weighing lines and grinders and mixers.

The warehouse has been redesigned with a nine-level rack system doubling the storage capacity of pallets. Besides, solvent tanks have been renewed for an increase of storage capacity by 150 percent and connected to the production area further increasing work efficiency and safety.