Ertona Textile serves the industry with its factory installed on 20.000 sqms closed area in Bursa Nilüfer Organized Industry Zone and attracts the attention to the power of recycling with its polyester, short staple fiber and yarn production from around 100 thousand plastic and textile waste in the last 10 years. The Founder of Ertona, Atilla Ilıman: “The locomotive of sustainability is for sure a conscious public recycling the waste at its source,” he said and noted that they are taking initiatives to improve the environmental conditions.
What do you have in your product range and what is your production capacity?
Polyester short staple, polyester plain and texturized yarn manufactured from the recycling of 100% PET packaging wastes and polyester textile wastes are among our products. We have 40 ton/day Polyester short fiber, 20 ton/day Polyester plain and texturized yarn production.
“We have done our first exports to Italy and Czech Republic”
We conduct our polyester short staple fiber exports to more than 20 countries at our factory dating back to 10 years. We mainly work with the European region. Our priority in yarn exports is also European region. We have done our first recycled yarn exports at the end of 2019to Czech Republic.
“We had our first production in 2016”
How did the idea of manufacturing yarn from recycling come into your minds?
We have planted the first seeds of manufacturing yarn with an R&D project conducted with the cooperation of university-industry in the late 90’s, then the realization of the project with polyester short staple fiber and finally in 2010, as Ertona Textile, our know-how and the forming of market needs. In compliance with our needs, we have included the required machinery line and had our first production in 2016.
“We Observe Manufacturers Saying, “We are here, too,” in International Competition”
What does recycling and sustainability mean for Ertona Tekstil?
The locomotive of sustainability is for sure a conscious public recycling the waste at its source. The increase in manufactured products in the growing packaging industry is a priority to improve the damaged environmental conditions of the world.
How do you evaluate the development of the yarn technologies in Turkey?
Due to the spread of R&D and test centers in universities and industrial institutions, we observe that the local machinery and product manufactures say, “We are here, too,” in the last years.
Do you have new investment plans?
The modernization of our current plants is a priority. On the other hand, we plan to double our recycling activities in the forthcoming 5 years depending on the increase of recycling activities of plastic wastes in the world.
About Ertona:
The company operating in Bursa is the only company which can manufacture colorful fiber and yarn from plastic bottles. The filling fibers manufactured from 100% recycling are used in various fields from home textiles to medical industry with over 500 colors.
