ARIKAN MENSUCAT

		ARIKAN MENSUCAT SANAYI VE TICARET A.S
	The foundations of ARIKAN MENSUCAT SAN VE TİC A.Ş which is located in the south parts of Turkey in Kahramanmaraş, goes back to 1954 when Osman ARIKAN started the textile business of cotton purchase-sale and cotton ginning activities. Since 1990, this textile tradition has continued in cotton yarn production as ARIKAN MENSUCAT SAN VE TİC A.Ş under the leadership of Mahmut Arıkan from second generation. . Today, Our company has production capacity up to the world standarts and it exports its products to the leading markets of the world.
Arıkan Textiles have been producing 100% cotton Open-End cotton yarn in Kahramanmaras since 1993. In the open end spinning mill, we are able to produce 100% cotton open end yarns for both knitting and weaving in every count between Ne 10/1 and Ne 30/1 count range. There are twelve open end machines with a total capacity of 2944 rotors min the open end spinning mill and we make production in a total closed area of 9.000 m2. All the machinery carry Rieter mark.
Haci Osman Arikan was born in 1911 in Kahramanmaras. He began to be involved in trade in Grand Bazaar with a small drygoods store. Later, apart from trade he was occupied with farming. His farming adventure started with paddy production, and continued with the first cotton planting in Kahramanmaras. In 1954 he took over Maras Ticaret ve Sanayi Isletmeleri and made it the most important industrial complex consisting of flour, gin and paddy producing factories in Kahramanmaraş. He opened the city’s then the biggest hotel called Celtik Palas. He was the chairman of the first Kahramanmaras Commerce Exchange He actively took part in Arıkan Mensucat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. Until 1999, he was the honorary president of the company. He received many awards for his services in business and social life. In 1988, he was awarded the The Eminent Service Medal by the Turkish Republic Government. He passed away in 1999.
In October 2002, the ring spinning mill started production in a closed area of 16000 m2 in order to produce top quality 100% cotton carded and combed ring spun yarns. Today, it continues its production with a capacity of 7.5 tones a day. Half of the capacity is for carded and the other half is for combed ring yarn production. In this mill, it is possible to produce 100% cotton carded and combed ring yarns between Ne 20/1 – Ne 40/1 count range. In the coming days, we planning to realize installation of the remaining 12.000 spindles and increase the capacity to 24.000 spindles very soon. Apart from the domestic market, great demand for the high-quality cotton yarn the company produces comes from European countries, mainly from Portugal and Italy. Except for Portugal and Italy, the countries we are constantly exporting to are Greece, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria. Efforts are going on to export to other European countries and USA. Achievements in domestic and foreign markets are the indicators of our company’s performance, its intolerable approach and sensitivity in quality, technology, customer satisfaction and human factor. To continue being successful, institutionalization process and technological investments are carried on by our young, dynamic, qualified executive team and self-sacrificing, experienced staff.