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Turkey Is An Indispensable Market

For Textile Machinery Manufacturers

Turkey is gaining great advantages compared to other countries in the industry thanks to its strategic location, production
speed and easy adaptation to changing conditions. As a manufacturer of high quality cotton, Turkey exports all kinds of
fabrics, garments, home textiles, and produce a large amount of technical textiles. With the advanced textile industry, the

demands for textile machinery in Turkey is increasing every day.
T nery used in preparation of yarns and fibers. Weaving factories, know-how, production capacity and quality of
he textile and apparel industry is the driving
machines ranks as the 2 with 316.9 million dollars, and
force of the Turkish economy with its export
knitted fabrics made of cotton and viscose fibers called
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share of 35% in our country, 11% in employ-
natural fibers. Turkey invests 200-250 million dollars in
the 3 is the flat and circular knitting machines with 316.1
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ment, 10% in GDP and 25% in total industrial
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Vehbi Canpolat, Chairman of Migiboy Tekstil and Presi-
has been the machines used in textile finishing. Imports
investments in our country. According to the million dollars. The 4 most imported machinery group finishing machines every year.
data announced in 2017, the Turkish textile industry is in of machinery in this group reached 273.6 million dollars dent of TTTSD (Turkish Textile Dyeing and Finishing In-
the 6th place in exports with more than 50,000 workpla- in 2018. dustrialists Association) said, “When we say ‘The textile
ces and a total of 2,5 million employees. As the world’s finishing sector in Turkey is playing to world leadership’
7 largest textile manufacturer, Turkey is currently the 2 we don’t say it for nothing. In the global market, Turkey is
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biggest supplier for the EU countries. “Our textile machinery investments the best place for finishing of the knitted fabrics made of
reach 2 billion dollars. Some of them cotton and viscose, which we call natural fibers. We have
TURKEY IS THE 4 BIGGEST BUYER IN THE TEXTILE experience in this area. If you ask me about capacity, I
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MACHINERY INDUSTRY are machines not manufactured or at can say that we are the 3 country with 600 factories
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The Turkish textile producers resorts to importing least partly manufactured in Turkey.” after China and India.”
machinery and technologies for their investments when
domestic production does not meet the demands. The INVESTMENTS IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY
figures for 2018 Textile Machinery import indicate this. TURKEY RANKS 2 AFTER CHINA IN IMPORTS OF CONTINUES AT FULL SPEED
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Indeed, Turkey has made 750 million dollars of exports YARN MACHINERY Breaking records for the entire Republican history in
in comparison to the textile machinery investments of In 2018, “Machinery for preparation of fibers and yarns” textile exports in 2018, Turkey continues investments
1.9 billion dollars in 2018. was imported amounting to 3.437 billion dollars. Turkey at full speed to achieve the export targets in 2019.
According to 2018 data; the global textile machinery ranks 2 after China with 333 million dollars of imports. Many domestic and foreign companies contribute to
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exports reached 27.5 billion dollars. Turkey ranks Turkey ranks the 5 with 275 million dollars in imports the country’s economy with exports and investments
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as the 4 largest importer. TEMSAD (Textile Machi- of knitting machines, and ranks the 3rd with 245 million they make in Turkey. One of those companies is Gama
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nery and Accessories Industrialists` Association) dollars for weaving machines, and ranks the 10 in Recycle. Having the world’s largest recyclable yarn ca-
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Chairman Adil Nalbant said, “Our textile machinery imports of dyeing and finishing machines with 202 pacity, the company will transform approximately 6,000
investments reach 2 billion dollars. Some of them are million dollars. tons of plastic bottles into polyester fibers per month by
machines not manufactured or at least partly manufac- the end of 2019.
tured in Turkey.” TURKISH TEXTILE FINISHING INDUSTRY PLAYS TO Entering the textile industry with garment retails in and
According to TURKSTAT (Turkish Statistical Instıtute) WORLD LEADERSHIP around Elazığ about 50 years ago, Migiboy Tekstil aims
records, 523.2 million dollars out of 1.9 billion dollars of The textile finishing industry, the leading sector in to grow three times in the next 5 years. The company
textile machinery imported in 2018 was for the machi- Turkish textiles, plays to world leadership with 600 will build a factory with an investment of 100 million GBP

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