09.03.21
Gaziantep, Turkey
www.gulsan-group.com
2020 Nonwovens Sales: $444 million
Key Personnel
Mehmet Kuyucu, general manager, nonwovens and films
Plants
Gaziantep, Turkey; Cairo, Egypt
Processes
Spunbond and meltblown
Investment continues for Turkey’s Gulsan Group. In October, not long after finalizing construction on a Reicofil 5 line at its Corlu, Turkey, site, the company announced it would add a second Reicofil 5 line in Turkey, with start up scheduled for June 2022, as well as a second line at its site near Cairo, Egypt, later in 2022.
Gulsan already makes 160,000 tons of spunmelt nonwovens–including 120,000 tons in Turkey and 40,000 tons in Egypt—per year and started up a meltblown line—a company first—in Turkey in March 2021.
Gulsan has not released capacity details for the new lines but reports the investments will support its future growth in the industry and reinforce its position as one of the leading manufacturers of spunmelt materials to supply top quality, ultra-light weight, diversified nonwovens with highly sophisticated and state-of-art technologies to its business partners for baby diapers as well as medical and health products in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.
In 2020, company sales continued to climb, reaching €341 million in 2020 on the heels of new investments in Turkey and Egypt as well as increased demand for nonwovens amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, according to Mehmet Kuyucu, general manager, nonwovens and films. This trend should continue as recently completed investments continue to come onstream.
Gulsan’s latest spunmelt investment, a 35,000 Reicofil 5 spunmelt line, announced in 2017, came onstream in early 2020 in Corlu, Turkey. The company currently makes 85,000 tons of spunmelt nonwovens in Gaziantep and 40,000 tons in Cairo, Egypt. Capacity figures for the two planned lines were not announced.
In January 2020, Gulsan announced it would diversify into meltblown with a 3.2-meter state-of-the-art Reicofil line, which came onstream in March 2021 and is capable of making meltblown materials for 250 million face masks per month.
www.gulsan-group.com
2020 Nonwovens Sales: $444 million
Key Personnel
Mehmet Kuyucu, general manager, nonwovens and films
Plants
Gaziantep, Turkey; Cairo, Egypt
Processes
Spunbond and meltblown
Investment continues for Turkey’s Gulsan Group. In October, not long after finalizing construction on a Reicofil 5 line at its Corlu, Turkey, site, the company announced it would add a second Reicofil 5 line in Turkey, with start up scheduled for June 2022, as well as a second line at its site near Cairo, Egypt, later in 2022.
Gulsan already makes 160,000 tons of spunmelt nonwovens–including 120,000 tons in Turkey and 40,000 tons in Egypt—per year and started up a meltblown line—a company first—in Turkey in March 2021.
Gulsan has not released capacity details for the new lines but reports the investments will support its future growth in the industry and reinforce its position as one of the leading manufacturers of spunmelt materials to supply top quality, ultra-light weight, diversified nonwovens with highly sophisticated and state-of-art technologies to its business partners for baby diapers as well as medical and health products in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.
In 2020, company sales continued to climb, reaching €341 million in 2020 on the heels of new investments in Turkey and Egypt as well as increased demand for nonwovens amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, according to Mehmet Kuyucu, general manager, nonwovens and films. This trend should continue as recently completed investments continue to come onstream.
Gulsan’s latest spunmelt investment, a 35,000 Reicofil 5 spunmelt line, announced in 2017, came onstream in early 2020 in Corlu, Turkey. The company currently makes 85,000 tons of spunmelt nonwovens in Gaziantep and 40,000 tons in Cairo, Egypt. Capacity figures for the two planned lines were not announced.
In January 2020, Gulsan announced it would diversify into meltblown with a 3.2-meter state-of-the-art Reicofil line, which came onstream in March 2021 and is capable of making meltblown materials for 250 million face masks per month.