FROM TEXTILES TO TISSUE

摘要

AFTER A QUARTER of a Millennium in the textiles business, Turkey's Marmara Group has made a bold move into tissue. Last November, the group's latest business, Lila Kagit ("Lila Tissue"), started up a 70,000-tonne/yr Metso Paper tissue machine at its facility in Corlu, a site equidistant (125 km) from Istanbul, the Greek border and the border with Bulgaria. "The area has a lot of water and a suitable climate," explains Lila Kagit chairman, Orhan Ogucu. Another advantage is "an easily accessible labour force," he says.