Textile auxiliary chemicals, pool water biocidal and auxiliary materials, pigment dispersion, industrial cleaning chemicals and cologne production are being made in Maitürk Chemistry site, which is active in 6000-square-meter area, of which 4.500 square meters is closed, in DOSAB. The site has 1.500 ton production capacity.
In the site, there is a Research and Development laboratory, practise laboratory, physics laboratory and analytical laboratory, founded with enormous investments. Maitürk, getting into the act in Thrace, Aegean, Southeast Anatolian and Bursa regions, is serving as one of the group companies of Harput Holding. Oya Bilgin, Maitürk Research and Development and Technical Purchasing Manager, has given some information about the developments in the sector and their work.
Can you give some information about the new products and their features, your company has presented to the market?
‘’Maitürk Kimya is a powerful producer of pre-finish, dye and dye auxiliary chemicals, pigment dispersions and finishing chemicals. Our prior goal is to provide quality to low price. Therefore, we are formulating products whose performance/price ratio is high. In addition, we can also boutique products in order to work solution oriented with our customers. Our aim is to solve our customer’s problem and making contributions to the continuousness of process and provide a favour for our customers.’’
‘’How do textile chemicals contribute to textile products. In which place are the chemicals in textile sector?
‘’Chemicals is inseparable part of textile. However, we think that it is useful to classify the chemicals as merchandise, problem solver and value adding in its own title. Providing all of them is our duty but our main goal is to produce and present products, solving the problem of the customer and adding value to its merchandise.’’
What should be done about environment and human health? What is sustainability for you?
‘’Maitürk Kimya believes that economic growth and welfare level increase can be realized by having respect for all the living things’ right to live all over the nature and world. Therefore, energy saving is important in its productions and Maitürk Kimya prefers the non-toxic raw materials it is using and adopting clean and environmental production attitude and gives special attention to employee health and security. It has adopted sustainability approach as a main idea and a principle, which is being part of the solution in line with this idea.’’
What is sector’s condition from the aspect of qualified employee? What is your opinion and what should be done about this subject?
‘’It is clear that there is a difficulty in finding a qualified employee in sector. Even, we are having difficulty in finding non-qualified workers. A great deal of operations wants to employ and train a non-qualified employee, but they cannot find. Young people should learn both the theory and the practise in various operations of industry branches together with the school for the sake of protection and development of country industry. Besides, founding campuses and workshops according to the branched with the support of the employer and government will make a contribution to this problem’s solution. In spite of all these disadvantages, our advantage, as a company, is to be affiliated to Harput Holding, powerful both financially and a body open to innovations. This is giving a power to us that we can easily attract the attentions of qualified employees like a magnet.’’
In which league is our Turkish chemistry industry taking place when we take World chemistry industry into 
consideration? What are the trends in textile chemicals?
‘’The most important problem is chemistry sector, a mass sector from the aspects of capital and technology, is the supplement of raw material. %70 of the used raw material is being important and the other %30 is being provided with domestic production. Surface-active and enzyme and so on raw materials, which are important inputs, is based on importation and this condition lead to the formation of foreign trade deficit in the chemistry sector at the utmost level. As a company, one of our goals is to reduce external dependence by designing more reactional products.’’
How do you evaluate the sector in the following period?
The most powerful aspects of the sector for 2015 year are production flexibility, capacity to develop environment-friendly products, highness of enterprising understanding, and awareness of the need for making investments. The blind sides are capital accumulation inefficiency, planning inadequacy, the shortness of technological accumulation and know-how inefficiency. When all of the factors are being taken into consideration, we are hopeful that the sector will grow comparing to the last year in 2015 to the extent that we produce know-how and technology in chemistry sector in 2015 year, minimize the import input dependence of the sector and giving priority to the production of the chemicals with high added value and take precautions and make investments in order to reduce the production cost.’’
