NKY Tekstil Makine Mümessillik San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. Company founded in 2010 by Feryat Kireççi being one of the most experienced names in textile industry serves textile, dyeing and finishing industry with Küsters Calico, Jagenberg Textile, Inspiron, Jupiter Comtex Pvt Ltd and Unitop Aquacare brands.
General Manager of NKY Textile Machinery Agency getting ready to celebrate its 30th year in the industry, Feryat Kireççi working with brands like Küsters Calico and Jagenberg Textile for long years along with other brands was interviewed by Textil Dünyası and he shared the advantages offered to the industry.
Feryat Kireççi informing that Küsters Calico Machinery Private Limited Company which is able to provide affordable and quality technology solutions for the finishing and dyeing process of woven and knitted fabrics also noted that can also offer all machineries required in textile mills in dyeing and finishing including singeing, desizing and washing processes.
“We Dominate 90% of Wet Finishing Market”
Kireççi gave information about Kústers Calico : “Küsters Calico Machinery Private Limited was founded in 1996 with the joint attempt of industrial engineers of Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG/Germany and Calico/India and serves to the textile industry with affordable perfect product commitment and Kústers Calico’s all departments have the capacity to respond customers need perfectly.”
Kireççi continued; “Kústers Calico manufactures singeing plants along with Pad-Batch and Pad-Steam plants, which can be required for open width dyeing, in high quality and reasonable price. Our customers can get effective continuous dyeing results with these plants. We cover most of the market share with our Pad-Batch and Pad-Steam plants in Turkey. Küsters Calico, especially in Adana region, is almost the sole washing machine. We dominate 90% of the market in wet finishing. It is possible to mercerize on all fabric in the market with the mercerization lines manufactured by Kústers Calico. Besides having the top level productivity in our plants, energy consumption is at minimum level. Water, steam, air and electricity expenses have been minimized in our washing machines,” he said.
All machines that companies need in wet finishing processes can be installed with Küsters Calico as Kireççi mentioned: “If a company installs a wet finishing-dyeing mill, we can supply all machines. We have a great advantage in that issue. We can supply roll drying machine for each customer. The most important advantage of roll dyeing is that it prevents the narrow passing of the stenter,” he said.
The Production of Kústers Continues in Germany, America and India
Feryat Kireççi mentioned that Kústers Calico has been criticized time to time as the production is carried out in India but added that Küsters Calico is a company within Jagenberg AG group companies headquarted in Germany, and shared these information: “Jagenberg AG group is a great holding compromising Küsters Calico, too. It dates back to 1878. Jagenberg AG owned by Jan Kleinewefers is a huge holding that covers Polytype Converting GmbH, Kampf Schneid- und Wickeltechnik GmbH & Co. KG, Maschinen Ritter Wickeltechnik GmbH, Lebbing engineering & consulting GmbH, VERSEIDAG-INDUTEX GmbH, TAG Composites & Carpets GmbH, LOG|WERK Krefeld, K2 Tower + Industriepark in Germany, VERSEIDAG-INDUTEX GmbH UK Branch in Enland, Polytype Converting AG in Switzerland, Kampf Machinery Corporation, Survival Armor Inc. in Amerika and Kampf (Hong Kong) Ltd. In China.”
Kirenççi informed that Jagenberg AG group conducts dyeing and finishing machinery production in 3 centers and continued: “Kústers Calico has production in India, Küsters Zima in America and Jagenberg Textile in Germany. Besides dyeing finishing machineries in America, carpet finishing machines are also manufactured. Dyeing padders, Pad-Batch padders, Pad-Batches, cylinders are manufactured in Germany. In addition, all electronical parts are manufactured in Europe. Sizing tanks are manufactured in India. That’s how Küsters Calico offers the best quality in reasonable prices to its customers,” he said.
Jupiter Advantage in Desizing and Slasher
NKY Tekstil Makine Mümessillik is also representing India’s leading desizing, warping and indigo dyeing machinery manufacturers, Jupiter Comtex Pvt Ltd and offers important advantages to its customers in this field.
Kireççi told that rope dyeing technology, which is developed by Jupiter and which has proven itself, can work with different yarn counts as well as providing color deepness of 6 % and said that no waste and color differences in ropes manufactured with this technology. “Jupiter stands forward with the rope machineries manufactured with a different technology used. Tension measurement is digital on the machinery and all crucial parts like censor and load cell are made in Europe. The dosing system is PLC controlled and its implements metric dosing system instead of container dosing system. Jupiter has the 90% of indigo denim dyeing market’s dyeing machinery in India and the company serves to important companies in Turkey like Sivteks, Toros in Adana, Tekas in Kahramanmaraş, Taşevli Tekstil in Denizli’, Harput and Saygı Tekstil in Bursa. Jupiter is an established company for us and we believe to carry out several projects together.”
In Slasher field, Kireççi shared his evaluations regarding the Turkish manufacturers market penetration, “There are Turkish manufacturers in Turkey in desizing and slasher machines as competitors of Jupiter. I believe it can be better. I had the chance to examine, especially Temsan’s machineries and I really liked them,” he said.
“Better References with Unitop”
Kireççi mentioned that Unitop Aquacare has important advantages in caustic recovery field and underlined that the company has years of experience in design, production, supply, installation and process engineering. Kireççi pointed out that they have good references with Unitop in caustic recovery systems, “We have machineries installed in companies like Öztek Tekstil, Arta Tekstil, and Kipaş. There are many customers using this machine overseas, especially in India,” he said.
“No Matter How Cheap is the Machine, It doesn’t make any difference if you don’t have an advantage in Technology”
Feryat Kireççi underlining that they have strong companies represented in Turkey added that the main reason in being chosen in the textile industry is selling good machines as well as having reasonable price and experience.
Kireççi stressed out that he has experience as agency for 30 years and underlined that this contributes to sales and continued: “ I have been selling finishing lines for 30 years. In addition, we have a long-term cooperation with Küsters Calico for years. Küsters Calico also has an experience and know-how dating back to several years. For instance, Küsters is the best in continuous dyeing machines. We have many benefits technically. We also provide advantages in terms of price for our customers. Having a part of the machine manufactured in India provides competence in price. However, this is a technologic business, No Matter How Cheap is the Machine, It doesn’t make any difference if you don’t have an advantage in Technology.”
Kireççi also underlined the importance of Küsters being known in the market for long years and knowing the market added the followings: “Our sales is conducted with references. You know there is saying that what we have done is the guarantee of what we will do. That is the same issue. Up to now, we did good things and we will do better,” he said.
“Orders for 2018 is Already Fully Booked”
Feryat Kireççi evaluating agency activities and sales realized in terms of machineries commented that 2017 was a good year in terms of sales realized to Turkey and Turkic Republics. Kireççi, “Not in terms of machinery but also in terms of complete projects we realized good sales. For example, at an investment carried out in Sudan by Turkish investors, complete lines were provided by Küsters Calico. We are very strong in home textiles industry with Kústers Calico. For example, we sold singeing machines of 3,20 width, Pad-Batch, continuous mercerization machines to Toprak Tekstil,” he said.
Kireççi shared his evaluations concerning 2018 with our editorial board commented: “We are fully booked for 2018 till December. We can’t accept any new orders before the end of 2018, that means that our customers have to wait for around 1 year,” he said.
30 Years of Experience in Agency
Feryat Kireççi being one of the most experienced names in textile industry is getting ready to celebrate its 30th year as an agency. Feryat Elitez mentioned that he started to work as an agenct in 1988 with Fahri Elitez and told his 30 year adventure as follows: “In 1987, after having returned from Germany I started to work at Söktaş. I had 16 months of enterprise experience there. In the early times of 1988, Fahri Elitez funded the agency and he called me. Starting from April 1988 till his dead, I worked with him for 22 years. I still commemorate him with respect and I learned everything from him. We were like a fortress as an agency because we had been representing important brands. As of 2010 I had my own company NKY Tekstil Makine Mümessillik San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.”
Kireççi underlined that he is getting to celebrate his 30th year as an agency in April 2018 and concluded: “ I am getting ready to celebrate my 30th year in the industry on April 2018, 1st. Besides being in the industry for 30 years, I always had the advantage to work with the same brands. For 30 years, I never changed my uniform, I always worked with the same companies. Sometimes they call me as Küsters Feryat in the industry and I am happy to achieve this. I hope to continue to work with Küsters for more long years,” he said.
