Siegwerk, one of the leading global providers of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, has completed the reconstruction of its site in Tuzla, Turkey, one of the company’s 16 Centers of Excellence worldwide.
Herewith, Siegwerk Turkey improved both efficiency and safety at its regional headquarters and increased production and storage capacities.
Next to producing solvent-based inks and varnishes, the Tuzla site also distributes the company’s sheetfed and narrow web products to customers in Turkey, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Egypt, and serves Siegwerk’s entities in Nigeria and South Africa.
The redesign not only increased the per-hour output by 20% to a total production capacity of 20,000 tonnes but also created 20 jobs, bringing the total number of employees to 130.
“We built a state-of-the-art facility that meets the highest safety standards without stopping operations for just one single day,” said Mustafa Güler, Vice-President EMEA, Business Unit Sheetfed and Managing Director, Turkey and the Middle East at Siegwerk.
“This is a huge milestone.”
The reconstruction not only includes the redesign of existing buildings but also an investment in new technologies to bring work safety to the next level. For example, the ventilation system in the production area has been renewed to better meet the needs of solvent emission, fully automatic filling and weighing lines have been established, grinders and mixers have been renewed and areas have been better equipped against natural events like earthquakes or thunderstorms.
The warehouse has been redesigned from a three-floored to a one-storey building with a nine-level rack system doubling the storage capacity of pallets. Besides, solvent tanks have not only been renewed for an increase in storage capacity by 150% but also have been better connected to the production area further increasing work efficiency and safety. These are just a few examples of the comprehensively implemented improvements in Tuzla.