CHEMPLAST General Manager Answers Our Questions

We conducted an enjoyable interview with CHEMPLAST General Manager Kemal Darcan discussing the company's product range and projects. Mr. Darcan also shared insights on innovations that will add value to the sector. [caption id="attachment_129876" align="aligncenter"] Kemal Darcan[/caption]

Tell us about yourself and CHEMPLAST.

After graduating from university, I entered the chemicals sector and established our chemical company, which holds a strong position in the industry today. Our company has maintained a significant share in the sector both domestically and internationally since its founding. CHEMPLAST's history goes back 10 years. The idea to establish CHEMPLAST stemmed from a need, from a gap in the sector. At our chemical company, we began in-house industrial packaging production to meet our own requirements. The strong interest and demand we witnessed during this period gave rise to the CHEMPLAST brand and enabled us to enter the industrial packaging sector. Today, with our extensive machinery park featuring the latest technology, we produce packaging to international standards; we meet the packaging needs of companies operating in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, textiles, paints and coatings, and food. Our goal is to produce packaging to international standards for our customers, enabling them to safely deliver their products worldwide while preserving and shipping high-value-added products. We implement world-class production in our integrated packaging manufacturing facility of 12,000 m² located in Tekirdağ, certified with ISO 9001:2015 system assurance. From our factory, we serve all of Thrace and Europe; from our 6,000 m² warehouse in Istanbul Kıraç, we deliver products manufactured with superior quality understanding to all domestic and international customers, particularly in Istanbul and the Marmara region, in the fastest and most secure manner.  

Can you provide information about the sectors you serve and your product varieties?

With our high-quality products developed in our laboratory, we add differentiated new products to the plastic industrial packaging field. As a result of our laboratory studies, our bag, jerry can and banded drum products, with their high-strength and robust locking mechanisms, provide superior protection even under the most challenging conditions, preserving the materials inside in the best possible way. In our CHEMPLAST laboratory equipped with state-of-the-art devices, we apply tests to maintain control over our products' resistance, strength, preservation and sealing properties. At the same time, we incorporate our long years of experience in the chemicals sector into the products we manufacture, prioritizing safety. For this reason, we produce plastic packaging compliant with all required national and international certifications. Our products are manufactured to standards compliant with TSE certification and UN certificates. Our valve system, which provides safety in the transportation and storage of aggressive and special chemicals, protects the materials inside with confidence and care. We possess Turkey's first 4-layer Co-Ex packaging production technology; in our 1, 3, 4, 5 and 10 litre packaging, we prevent product permeation while providing superior protection and strength. In HDPE packaging, we produce bags, jerry cans and banded drums from 5 litres to 220 litres; taking sector demands into account, we are careful to meet different industrial packaging needs in the most effective and safest manner.    

Tell us about the projects you have recently undertaken.

In addition to our 120 litre and 150 litre banded drum products, we designed a 170 litre banded drum not previously available on the market, and with this product we minimized the high freight costs for all sectors, particularly our exporting customers. Additionally, we began production of 220 litre banded drums. In the near term, we will put our 1 litre HDP and CoEx packaging production on stream. Thanks to our Co-Ex technology, we will begin producing high-value-added packaging that enables the safe transportation and protection of volatile chemicals, particularly agricultural chemicals. We will continue making investments in our products and services in the coming period.

What innovations will you introduce to the sector in the coming period?

At CHEMPLAST, we place considerable emphasis on R&D and quality work, making substantial investments in this area. We established our laboratory before putting our production lines into operation at our factory. By sourcing all necessary machines and equipment for testing from domestic and international suppliers, we became capable of conducting all plastic packaging tests in our own laboratory. This enables us to ensure maximum compliance of our products with national and international standards. Moreover, to prevent problems arising during product shipment, one of the sector's major issues, we developed a transport simulator. Through this, we identify potential risks that products may encounter during the shipping process in laboratory conditions and implement preventive measures in the production process, aiming to increase customer satisfaction.