Sarten to set up two facilities in U.S. and Africa

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Sarten Ambalaj has launched construction on two production plants in Africa and the U.S., according to Zeki Saribekir, CE• of Sarten Ambalaj. The company has 20 facilities at home and abroad, including 16 production plants in Silivri, Gebze, Karacabey, Gemlik, Manisa, Ayvalik, Adana and Corlu and four production plants in Bulgaria, Russia and Netherlands.

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Founded as a family business in 1972, Sarten Ambalaj currently operates in three sectors - food, cosmetics and industrial products and exports to about 100 countries. Employs 350 people in Bulgaria Sarten employs 350 people in its facilities located in Pleven and Lyaskovets in Bulgaria. The company launched production plants in Russia and the Netherlands to produce aerosol boxes for the cosmetics industry following its first investment abroad in Bulgaria. Today, it manufactures metal box and metal twist caps in Bulgaria and produces aerosol boxes in Nevinnomyssk in Russia and Roosendaal in Netherlands. “You receive a ‘Made in Europe’ tag when you manufacture in Bulgaria. We can export products via Bulgaria to countries with whom we can’t trade from Turkey,” said Saribekir. The company has acquired a second facility in Bulgaria and aims to make it a EUR 50m turnover production plant. “We’ll complete the year with EUR 36m in turnover, 25% of which will be obtained from customers in Bulgaria. The remainder comes from Greece, the Balkans, Austria and neighboring countries,” he added.

USD 500M TURNOVER BY 50TH ANNIVERSARY

By 2022, when it will celebrate its 50th anniversary, Sarten Ambalaj hopes to have reached USD 500m turnover. “We also plan to make USD 50m investment at home and abroad. We’ll continue to proceed in line with this goal,” said Saribekir. Sarten currently employs 2,900 people in Turkey and nearly 3,400 people abroad and has around 2,000 customers.