A specialist in the production of yarns from recycled fibres, Kempaş İplik has been collaborating with Saurer for over 15 years and aims to grow further in the sustainable yarn segment in the future. Saurer’s Autocoro open-end machines played an important role in allowing Kempaş to position its sustainable strategy as one of the most important achievements in the company’s history.
Kemal Yağcı, who started his career as a weaver, founded Kempaş İplik in the Uşak Leather Organized Industrial Zone in 2005, after 50 years in the textile industry. The company started producing recycled yarn 10 years later. Today, Kempaş İplik continues its production activities with 90 staff in an enclosed area of 25.000 m2 on a land of 40.000 m2 in Uşak, the recycled yarn center of Turkey. Keeping a steady growth in its recycling journey, Kempaş has purchased an another 8,000 m2 of land close to its current site to accomodate to the future expansion of its recycled yarn production capacities.
“Kempaş Iplik: Saurer has also been our companion on our recycling journey”
Saying that they established the factory with Saurer open-end machines at the beginning of 2005, Kemal Yağcı stated that today they produce 6,400 tons of yarn per year with 5,400 spinning units. Relaying that they use cotton fibre recycled from textile scraps as raw material, which has increased their profitability, Yağcı stated that this has had a positive impact on the environment, too. Yağcı said: “We have three generations of Saurer Autocoro open-end machines. We started yarn production with Saurer, and it has also been our companion on our recycling journey. Our Autocoro open-end machines contributed to our positive company image in terms of production, efficiency and yarn quality. They also reduced our production costs”.
“We have a responsibility to leave a better world for the future generations”
The successor of Kempaş İplik and the son of Kemal Yağcı, Murat Yağcı said: “We have a responsibility to leave a better world for future generations, so we aim to increase our share of the recycled yarn market even more by consuming less cotton, dye and water”. Yağcı stated that they are also installing solar energy panels on the factory’s roof to optimise the consumption of their limited sources and use sustainable sources of energy, too. One of the approved suppliers of the retail fashion giant Inditex Group, Kempaş exports 50% of its products today and also has Oeko-tex and GRS certificates. The company mainly produces recycled cotton-virgin polyester blend yarns ranging from Ne 6 to Ne 36, with different mixing ratios, mainly Ne 28/1 knitting and weaving yarns. Factory Manager Hasan Durmuş stated that Saurer has been their solution partner for years and expressed that they are very pleased with the euser friendliness of the machines, their high efficiency and yarn quality standard, as well as the high level of service provided by Saurer Turkey.