Sharabati showcases Kadirli mill
19/10/2022
Last month the family-owned company invited its key customers to see the factory, where construction work continues. “The entrance building was finished just six months ago,” Alessandro Moretti Ciacci, head of sales and export, tells Inside Denim. More than 250 people attended the event, with 53 visitors coming from international markets, including Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, and 151 from Turkey.
“Denim is a family, it is a big family, we wanted to bring this big family together at our company,” said Mr Moretti Ciacci. The event was also an opportunity to show the facility, which is nearly brand new.
Sharabati’s Kadirli mill has a production capacity of 50 million metres a year, it covers nearly 200,000 sqm and has a staff of 1,500. The facility has both open end and ring spinning production lines. In the dye house, a new slasher dyeing range was added just two months ago to the two rope dyeing ranges. The company says it uses mostly pre-reduced liquid indigo.
In the two weaving halls, one dedicated to denims, the other to gabardines, there are 288 looms, some of which are new iSaver looms made by Itema. This section includes an automated warp beam management system, which the company says is unique.
“When I arrived at Sharabati, Kadirli was already one of the best mills. As it is a new mill, it has very recent machinery and equipment,” said Mr Moretti Ciacci. With the plant in Egypt, the company’s production capacity totals 130 million metres a year, and he says the company actually sold 100 million metres of fabric last year.
The ongoing investments in the Kardirli mill are aimed to align the production of the company’s two facilities so that they produce the same qualities. “Now, technically, we can produce the same products in Egypt and in Turkey,” he said.
“Our strong point,” he added, “is our internal know-how. The rope dyeing and slasher dyeing machines were set up by our internal staff. We have a very high level of expertise in house which is why we also have a high level of innovation.” Now the goal of company is to make it better known, and become, in his words, more “brand-oriented”.
Image: Left to right: Mohammad Sharabati, president and owner, Mohannad Shehneh, head manager of the company’s Istanbul office and Alessandro Moretti Ciacci, head of sales and marketing.
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