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Cooling and stacking line by SHS
Mehmet Sen, project coordinator and
Nihat Turan (from left)
Press gap inside ContiRoll ®
Stops on the trip through Turkey –
Stations of a prospering markets
The first stop on Siempelkamp’s trip to visit
customers was Turanlar in Vezirköprü, in
the Samsun region – a long-established
family business from Istanbul with many
different footholds to fall back on, for
example, in the areas of tourism and paper
industry (tea bag and overlay papers). Since
1953 the owner, the Turan family, is
involved in the wood business and bought
the Vezirköprü location from the government
in 1995. The only former governmentally
owned plant for wood processing
still operating is located here and includes a
multi-daylight press for particleboard. Since
the mid 1990s the production spectrum has
also included system beams and plywood
for sheathing. Later on more integrated
products such as furniture boards, CPL, and
parquet were added.
In 2006 the Turan family started an investment
program to ensure fresh impetus for
the location. A Siempelkamp plant for the
production of thin MDF specializing in a
board thickness ranging from 1.5 – 30 mm
was ordered in the beginning of 2007
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representing the start of a new product
range. The line, which was designed for a
production speed of up to 2,000 mm/s,
reaches a daily capacity of 660 m 3 for 3 mm
boards.
The centerpiece of the new forming and
press line for Turanlar is a 7’ x 28 m Conti-
Roll ® press. The first board was produced
on August 8, 2008; three-shift operation
started in September. The scope of supply
also included a triple diagonal saw and a
cooling and stacking line made by Siempelkamp
Handling Systeme GmbH (SHS).
Furthermore, the company invested in a
new direct-printing and coating line which
is presently being assembled. A line for
flooring and frameless light-weight boards,
a company-owned glue production as well
as an impregnating system complete the
spectrum in Vezirköprü.
For which products and application areas is
Turanlan operating this Siempelkamp line?
“The thin MDF product is used unfinished,
coated or finished as light-weight boards. In
addition, we are producing click system
flooring, according to the Megaloc/Classen
patent. The multi-daylight presses also