Türkiye’s Lila Kağıt has held a ground-breaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on its TL3bn tissue facility in Erzurum.
According to the company, the site will be the first tissue paper facility in the Eastern Anatolia and Eastern Black Sea region, with 100,000m2 of construction being carried out on 160,000m2 of land.
The converting section of the facility will be operational in 2025 and the jumbo roll paper production line is aimed to be operational in 2027.
Once up and running the plant will produce toilet paper, paper towel, napkins, and handkerchiefs, manufacturing Lila Kağıt’s Sofia, Maylo, UltraBerrak, Nua brands as well as private label products.
It will have an annual capacity of 35,000 tons, boosting Lila Kağıt’s total production capacity to 306,000 tons.
Solar energy panels will be installed on the roof of the facility and some of the production will be provided from renewable energy sources.
The ground-breaking ceremony was held at the plant on 17 May and was attended by the Deputy Minister of Interior of the Republic of Türkiye Bülent Turan, the Governor of Erzurum Mustafa Çiftçi, the Deputy of Erzurum Selami Altınok, the Mayor of Erzurum Metropolitan Municipality Mehmet Sekmen, as well as Lila Kağıt’s regional customers, board of directors and many guests.
Orhan Öğücü, Chairman of the Board, Lila Kağıt, said: said: “We are happy to quickly implement our new investments, which are our commitment to our investors.
“We wish that our new facility, the foundation of which we have laid, will be beneficial to our whole country and Erzurum.”
