Turkish packaging producer Sarten Ambalaj (Istanbul; www.sarten.com.tr) reportedly plans to set up a new factory in Adana, near the country’s southern border with Syria. Investment costs in the project, which is scheduled to start in March this year, were not disclosed, with local news media saying the facility will constitute the company’s most important investment this year. No start-up date was announced.

One of Turkey’s larger injection moulders (see also Plasteurope.com of 29.04.2010), Sarten Ambalaj produces a wide range of metal and plastic packaging solutions for the food, industrial and cosmetics markets. Its plastics activities focus on PET, PP and PE jars, bottles, containers and canisters. Its plastics processing capacity is said to stand at 14,000 t/y. The group, which operates 13 plants in Turkey as well as one each in Bulgaria and Russia, reportedly posted sales of USD 350m in 2014, of which its Food division contributed 50%, while the remaining sales were generated in about equal share by its Industrial Packaging and Cosmetics businesses.

Exports make up about 25% of total group turnover, local news sources report, adding that Sarten Ambalaj’s products are available in 80 different countries. While its food packaging solutions are mostly shipped to North Africa and the Middle East, its cosmetics range is exported across Europe.