Şişecam ignited its new furnace with an investment of 400 million TL

The leading company of the glass industry in Turkey Şişecam continues its investments without interruption despite the coronavirus epidemic. The company, which was founded in 1935 to meet Turkey’s glass needs in Istanbul Paşabahçe, operates in business lines covering all basic areas of glass such as flat glass, glassware, glass packaging and glass fiber, as well as glass raw materials production, with a total of approximately 400 million lira ( ignited the flat glass furnace it renewed with an investment of approximately 42 million euros.

240 thousand tons capacity

The company, which has been the leader of Turkey in the sector for about 85 years, has new will have the opportunity to quickly respond to the increasing demand with its furnace. Making a statement on the subject, Şişecam Chairman and General Manager Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kırman said, “After the Polatlı facility, we are commissioning our sixth furnace, which we completed the cold repair at our Yenişehir flat glass facility today. Following the commissioning of the fifth furnace with a capacity of 240 thousand tons, whose cold repair will be completed in our Yenişehir facility in the last quarter of the year, Şişecam will continue to create value for Turkey uninterruptedly by actively using its installed flat glass production capacity, which has reached 2 million tons in Turkey.” He used his expressions.