Matesa Tekstil, which operates in the fields of knitting, denim, knitted apparel, knit dyeing, weaving, wowven dyeing, denim and sportswear, attracts attention with the increase it achieved in yarn production. The company owns 3 vertical integrations from yarn to ready-made garment at knitting and weaving sectors. The revival of the sector following the additional taxes applied last year on the imported woven fabrics, has created a positive impact on Matesa.
Matesa Tekstil, one of Europe’s strongest textile companies, managed by Kemal Küçük, operates on 350,000 sqm open and 305,000 sqm closed area. The company was established as a spinning mill in 1989, in Maraş. Matesa, which has been continuing its production for 23 years, expanded its field of activities outher than yarn. Yarn spinning, knitting and weaving mills and at last knitting and weaving dyeing mills have been activated as full integration within Matesa. The company that has been affected positively by the additional taxes applied on the imported woven fabrics and yarns, has increased its production activities and has started to operate at full capacity.
Matesa, which owns 7 spinning mills, manufactures 100 % cotton, melange, viscose, polyester-viscose, cotton-polyester, acrylic-cotton mixtured yarns. While meeting the yarn needs of the knitting and weaving facilities, the spinning mills provide the same quality to the customers in each order. Having been a brand preferred in the domestic and international markets, Matesa exports a considerable amount of its production to the European and Middle East countries. The company that adopts a vision of high level quality, uses AQL standards in every step of the production from yarn to the fabric and to apparels. Matesa Tekstil certifies its vision of high quality with the ISO 9001:2000, OEKO-TEX, BELCORO and SANTEX quality standards it owns. The company also makes a strong impression with its international quality standards.
The Yarn Production Capacity Increased in 2011
Matesa owns 7 spinning mills including 4 Open End (OE) and 3 Ring Spun facilities. The company is able to supply various kings of yarns such as OE flat yarns, ring carded yarns, ring combed yarns, OE shantung yarns, Ring shantung yarns, Ring multicount yarns, Ring core yarns, Ring compact yarns, Ring shantung-lycra and Plied yarns. In its machinery park divided into 7 sections, Matesa has 93 spinning machines, 32 of which is Open end and 61 of which is spinning machines. The company reaches a total of 9,536 rotors with its 32 Open end machines and manufactures 78,672 spindles with its 61 Ring machines. In other worlds, the company reaches 88,208 spindles and rotors in total .
Matesa, which began compact ring production in 2007, twists more than 135 tons of yarn in its yarn twisting lines in a month. These lines are able to twist yarns up to Ne 100/2. The company that has increased its compact yarn capacity to 25,000 tons in 2011, demonstrates its strength on the global level by performing exports around 40 percent.
Raw Material Supply Includes All Regions
The company that has 3,000 empoloyees in all segments it performs production, uses the yarns it manufactures in knitting, weaving and denim segments. Matesa, which performs production within a wide range in its facilities, meets the need for raw materials both at home and abroad. The company that used imported cotton around 70 percent in 2010-2011, supplied the fibers in various regions in 2011-2012. On the other hand, the company meets 50 percent of the total cotton imports at home and 35 percent of it from the USA and 10 percent of it from Greece.
Matesa, which met 90 percent of its polyester needs – as synthetic fibers - from the domestic market and 10 percent of it from the foreign markets. The company met 100 percent of its viscose need from the imports, of which 50 percent was performed from Spain and 40 percent were from China. Matesa supplied 100 percent of the tencel fabric need from Austria and 100 percent of Cupro need from Japan. On the other hand, the company met some part of its filament need from the domestic market and some part of it from the foreign markets. Matesa, which processes the cotton bales in its spinning facilities after analysing their fiber standards, is choosy with the cotton it buys both in Turkey and in abroad
Promotion Law is a Barrier Against the Investments
In the statement they made to our magazine, the company officials remarked that since there are no domestic machinery manufacturers that serve the yarn sector except the air conditioning plants. The officials stated that the company has been affacted - though slightly - by the global crisis. “Our facilities could not operate at full fapacity due to the incredible increase observed in cotton prices in 2011. However the revival started in the 4th quarter of 2011,” said the officials.
Emphasizing that the most important factor in yarn production is electricity costs, the officials said; “If a law similar to the promotion law No. 5084 is put on the agenda, a competitiveness will be created within yarn sector again. We hope that the textile sector will be taken into account within the scope of the new promotion law and that the trade union law that is going to change will preserve the peace between the Empolyee-Employer. We’re not planning to make new investments until these expectations of ours are not met.”
