Representative companies which feel the pulse of the sector share their expectations with Textil Dunyasi Magazine
Süleyman Batur-TEKSEL
Süleyman Batur from Teksel Textile – among the strong representative company in Turkey-, which is the representative company for Monarch, Biancalani, BTSR, Color Service, MTG, SASPE, FADİS, DyeCoo, Tinarelli and Matsuya mentioned that, their expectations from 2014 is not negative. He said that after the results of March 30 local elections; they will expect a wave in currency again. He expressed that, they have experience from the previous elections and continued his words like that; “Our all customers behaving cautious including us, avoiding from investment and everybody know how they behave; because they have experience from the previous mistakes. We, as Teksel Textile, hopeful from textile sector in 2014. Our clients are investing for machines, which raises added value and will continue to invest. Features of sold machines also confirm this issue.”
He continued “We have reinforced our sales staff by adding new friends for new representatives, who newly added to our portfolio and foresee a raise in our 2014 sales budget. Also we enlarged our sales web by making new dealership agreements.” Batur finished his words as; “As a result, there is no any change in our belief for Turkish textile and textile man; I hope have a nice year for everyone.”
Cengiz Kahraman – SPOT LTD
Spot International Textile Industry and Representations Co. Ltd, which conducts representative in the field of textile dyeing - finishing and technical textiles machinery manufacturers, has been presenting the best ideal solutions for planning facility, technology resurrection and increasing productivity in textile sector since 1991. Cengiz Kahraman, who is the founder of Spot, said that they are expecting high export figures in 2014, as a result of the depreciation of the Turkish lira against the U.S. dollar.
He said; “In our country’s total exports, textile industry keeps their second place and in recent years because of the economic turmoil in Southern Europe region, this region’s textile production adversely affected. So as a result of this, we became to the first position in Europe in textile production.” and he finished his words like this; “Especially with high-quality production and fast delivery of orders with any size, our industry also showing considerable progress after China and India throughout the world and has become the most powerful manufacturers.”
Sami Çakırca- INTER TEXTILE
Inter Textile Co. Ltd has been found in 1984 and still being representative of the most famous textile machine producers in the field of dye-printing and finishing machines. Sami Çakırca from Inter Textile, who is giving support to pre-sale customers a complete investment project design and machine technical details of the determination, has said that "it is expected better sales from previous year in 2014 in the textile machinery sector especially in the textile finishing machines.” The reason for possibility of better textile machine sales expectation in 2014 because it was given a lot of weaving and knitting machinery orders in 2012 and 2013. The point of question about weaving and knitting machinery orders, a portion of the machine have come up as renovation but at the same time has also been an increase of capacity. As a result of this, 'the need for finishing machines increased and will increase" Çakırca said and added "in some yarn manufacturers have a movement towards integration. Companies which are concerned weaving, knitting and finishing operations got done fason. After adding to the body, gradually they have started to turn the process of integration.”
In conclusion Çakırca said, “Turkey is a dynamic country and in previous years Turkey return harder bends compare with that” and he ended his words with saying that he believes 2014 would pass very good for them.