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Investments made in the textile and integrated factories attract the highest level of attention in the Southeast Anatolian region, which is the center of investments, especially with the effect of peace in the region and the incentives granted during the recent years.
The number of ‘’Organized Industrial Zone’’s increases in direct proportion to the number of facilities. The investors in the region are getting prepared to meet with the textile and apparel technology manufacturers at the OTM 2014 Middle East Textile Machinery Exhibition that will be held on 16th- 19th October 2014. Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık & Teknik Fuarcılık, which has organized ITM Texpo Eurasia, which is the only textile machinery exhibition of Turkey and the region, and one of the most important textile machinery exhibitions of the world since 2004, this time made a partnership for a new meeting in Gaziantep, the center of textile investments. OTM 2014 Exhibition is organizing by partnership of Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık & Teknik Fuarcılık, with the support of Gaziantep Chamber of Industry and Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce. The OTM 2014 Middle East Textile Machinery Exhibition, which will offer the meeting of the most important technology manufacturers both of Turkey and the world, with the investors will be held on 16th – 19th October 2014, in two halls with a total of 28.000 square meters total covered area, in Gaziantep Middle East Exhibition Center. The OTM 2014, whose allocation and sales works have already begun, will be an important meeting in the region, in which both the incentives and investments have increased specially in recent years. In the OTM 2014 Exhibition; • Cotton and Fiber Preparation Machinery. Yarn Preparation Machinery and Accessories. • Yarn Winding Machinery. • Weaving Preparation Machinery. • Weaving Machinery. • Carpet and Tuing Machinery. • Flat and Circular Knitting Machinery. • Dyeing – Printing – Finishing Machinery. • Textile Chemicals, Laboratory Equipment and Quality Control Systems, • Embroidery and Quilting Machinery. • Garment Making Machinery. • CAD – CAM – CIM Application and Automation Systems, • Machine Spare Parts and Accessories.
A NEW INVESTMENT CENTER IN TEXTILES
Gaziantep is in the center of the region, where an important increase in the investments in textiles is seen, especially as a result of regional incentives. Other areas of investments which also attract attention are the neighbours of Gaziantep, such as Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Osmaniye, Şanlıurfa, Kahramanmaraş, Adana, Mardin, Kayseri, Malatya. Moreover, almost daily flights from Gaziantep to Erbil and the busy customs borders also attract attention. The exports achieved to the Middle East and the countries of the EU is only one of the criteria to tell about the place and the importance of this city of ours within the Turkish economy. The share of Gaziantep and the other cities of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia within the exports of Turkey have increased in the recent years and the exports of the region have exceeded 4 billion dollars annually. Gaziantep, which is the most important gate opening to the Middle Eastern countries, is also on the historical Silk Road. The region which is continuously renewed especially with the solution process. Southeast Anatolian Region has become a center of investment with the investors’ discovering the region recently. 35 % of the textile investments in the Marmara and the Aegean regions is expected to be moved to the Southeast Anatolia within the next 5 years. Gaziantep’s exports in 2012 were about 5.9 billion USD, with carpets 1.4 biilion USD, textile and raw materials 932 million USD and garments 98 million USD. Machine made carpets make up the 25% of the exports of Gaziantep. There are 324 textile companies in 4 separate industrial zones in Gaziantep. With these companies, Gaziantep has shares of 82 % in machine and handmade carpets, 95 % in machine made carpets, 92 % in polypropylene yarn, 60 % in tricot – knitted goods and 59 % in nonwoven cloth, compared to total production in Turkey. There are 1018 Textile and Raw Materials Companies and 227 Carpet Companies which are members of the exporter unions in Gaziantep. There are 249 Textile and Garment Producing Companies in Kahramanmaraş, a neighbouring province of Gaziantep. 82 of these companies produce yarn, 26 of them produce woven fabrics, 43 of them produce knitted fabrics, 47 of them are ginneries, 23 of them produce colorants, 2 of them produce cotton and 26 of them produce ready wear and nonwoven. Moreover, in Kahramanmaraş, 35 % of the total yarn production and 10 % of the total cloth production of Turkey is realized. The city is making preparations to produce the 50 % of the total cotton yarn and 20 % of the total knitted cloth produced in Turkey by 2023; investments are already taking place in order to achieve this target. The amount of the incentives already granted to Kahramanmaraş is about 1.2 billion USD and it has the largest share of incentives used in the region with 45,9 %. Moreover, textile investments of 536.million USD still continue. They have the largest share of the investments. 196 companies manufacturing textile, knitting and apparel operate in Şanlıurfa, the other province in the region which has made a quick progress with incentives. These companies make up the 30 % of the manufacturing companies in the city. Approximately 40 % of the cotton produced in Turkey is produced in Şanlıurfa alone. The production is predicted to double with the completion of the irrigation projects of GAP (Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi – Southeast Anatolian Project). The ‘’textile industry based-on cotton’’ has started to develop in Şanlıurfa within this scope. Investments in ready wear have started to aim Şanlıurfa, especially with the New Incentive System and the development of the industry has gained momentum. Works to set up a ‘’textile island’’ in 2nd OSB (Organized Industrial Zone), together with the Union of Ready Wear Exporters Union of Istanbul has already started. In this context, it is intented to bring in small businesses, especially the side industry companies which serve within the ready wear industry. It is estimated that about 5000-8000 people will be employed in this “Textile Island” which is being planned to be established on a 360.000 sqm. land and to be completed in a few years. Şanlıurfa will be very important within the textile industry with the realization of these projects. There are 65 facilities manufacturing textiles, knitting and apparel in Diyarbakır, in which textile investments attract attention recently and investments still go on both in the organized industrial site and in the textile factories. Works arein progress for the ‘’Textile City’’ in Diyarbakır in which 7500 people will be employed. The Textile City Project of the textile manufacturers of the Southeast which unites under the Association of Southeast Textile Industry and Businessmen (GÜNTİAD) is being realized with the leadership of the Governorship of Diyarbakır, and the support and contributions of the Karacadağ Development Agency. It is planned that the Textile City will start production at the end of 2014. 131 facilities continue their operations within weaving and ready wear industries in Malatya. Malatya has become an established center of manufacturing within the textile industry in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions with the private sector investments. Malatya has the capacities of processing cotton, producing different kinds of yarn and making different kinds of fabrics such as hosiery, canvas, marquee, furnishing and denim. There are 282 Textile companies in Adana. 12 of these are among the biggest 500 industrial corporations of Turkey. 115 companies operate within the ready wear industry. Midyat district of Mardin takes its place in within the industry with its textile factories whose number increase every day. Hundreds of workers are employed in the 20 current textile factories. Companies of domestic and foreign trademarks have started to establish their facilities for manufacturing in Midyat. There are new investments for textile factories in Batman Organized Industrial Site. SOUTHEAST IN TEXTILE EXPORTS Textiles and raw materials worth 2.1 billion dollars were exported from the Southeastern Anatolia Region in January –September 2013 period. According to the information given by the Southeastern Exporter Unions (GAİB), textiles exports which amounted to 1.8 billion dollars in the first 9 months of 2012, have increased to 2.1 billion dollars in the same period this year, with a 14% increase. Fabric exports had the largest share of the textile and raw materials exports with 506 million dollars, yarn exports amounted to 504 million dollars, and the chemicals’’ exports were about 500 million dollars. Iraq became the first among the countries exported to, with 643 million dollars. Middle Eastern countries became the first among the country groups with 780 million USD export and the countries of the European Union (EU) with 666 million USD and African countries with 184 million USD followed them.
