Cem Plastik, which produces plastic food packaging, is also increasing its claim on the market with its raw material distribution company Credoypolimer, Sem Global Foreign Trade and SEM Studio Design Solutions, which carries out the group's foreign trade. SEM Plastik founder Honorary Chairman Namık Kemal Eroğlu noted that they plan to increase investments especially for innovative products, ’in our plants, injection, thermoform and extrusion processes, while realizing all of the recycling projects, we are able to produce closed cycle production. With the advantage of gathering all these processes under the same roof, we can produce solutions to the needs of our customers as well as developing our combined product range which is the output of these processes. In parallel with the needs of our customers, we will increase the number of integrated and value-added packaging in the coming periods.’

Considering the economic and political developments, they aimed to capture the stability of last year in 2016, Namık Kemal Eroğlu said, ’in 2015, the group turnover reached 170 million liras and we sold 100 million liras of production. Last year we took part in the first thousand companies in Turkey to export the most. At the same time, we are among the second largest 500 companies in ISO Turkey,’ he said.

Exports to 156 countries

Namik Kemal Eroglu, ’North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Middle East countries, mainly exports to 156 countries. The countries we export most include England, Spain, USA, Palestine, Denmark, Iraq, Germany, Bulgaria and France. Meanwhile, we are opening up to new markets. Recently, our export Network; Angola, Equatorial Guinea, such as Turkey's traditional markets outside the countries have added, " he said. Eroglu, especially Japan and South America in the next period focused on countries, he said.

Focus on efficiency and automation in investment

Namık Kemal Eroğlu stated that the company has increased its investments in order to use its resources effectively and efficiently in the last two years and continued: ’full automatic packaging machines, robotic automation systems, converging processes, Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, logistics and storage automation constituted the majority of our investments. In addition, we have done renovation and reorganization studies in some machines and processes where productivity loss is experienced. We will continue our investments in the future for the development of our company. We are continuing our efforts to invest in a new production facility in Silivri with a closed area of 20,000 square meters. So we can further expand our capacity.’

Emphasizing that they allocate a significant budget for R & D and design, Namık Kemal Eroğlu also reported that they have collaborated with Itu Industrial Products Design Department (ITU ENTAS). Developed by R & D department, ‘BorPlas’ non-flammable dish is included in our travel Equipment Product Group and preferred by airlines stating that Eroğlu, ‘Borplas’ with the first time in Turkey, we produced a non-melting plastic plate. The dishes are served in a BorPlas dish, which is much lighter than porcelain. It can be cooked at 200 degree temperature in household electric ovens and served on the same plate. Moreover, the dishwasher can be washed and reused. The plastic plate, which is not melted in the oven, is produced by three companies in the world,’ he said.

Namık Kemal Eroğlu stated that they started their operations in 1975 by producing spare parts to agricultural machines and that they produced plastic parts for the telecommunications sector in 1985 and that they started to manufacture disposable food packaging in 1986. As of today in addition to the headquarters in Istanbul in Silivri 20 thousand square meters and 8 thousand 500 square meters of facilities in Malatya continued to work saying Eroğlu, 350 people employed informed.

World Newspaper Of 18.05.2016;