Cumra Sugar Factory
The factory, which was completed in 2004 and its foundation were laid in 2003, was financed completely with equity capital and is among the most modern facilities in the sugar sector in the world. The facility, which can obtain its raw materials from an area with a radius of 20 km., is the largest sugar factory in Turkey.
Cumra Sugar Integrated Facilities was completed in a short time as one year, as a result of extraordinary efforts, work, collaboration and performance of producers, managers and employees of Konya Seker. The opening ceremony of the facility was made with the participation of Prime Minister of the period, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, high ranking government officials and more than 50 thousand people on 24 September 2004.
Beet processing capacity of Cumra Seker Factory, founded on 2 million 600 thousand m2 area on 5th degree agricultural land, is 17 thousand tons per day. All the machinery and equipment have been selected from the state of the art technology products from Europe at our facilities, founded in Cumra, where highest quality of beet is grown due to suitability of its climate in Turkey, which is sugar beet heaven.
Konya seker’s sugar production increased from 213.000 tons per year to 435.500 tons per year and total sugar beet quota of the producers of the region increased from 1.617.000 million tons per year to 3.320.000 tons per year.
Characteristics and firsts of our Cumra Integrated Sugar Facility:
• The sugar factory, which has the highest sugar production capacity in Turkey.
• It is the only sugar factory in the world, brought to life with the own funds of beet producers and whose construction was completed in one calendar year.
• It is the most modern factory, where state of the art technology is used for sugar beet production. The facility is controlled via a computerized automation system, which receives information from 10 thousand points.
• It is the only sugar factory in the world, which can obtain its raw materials from an area, 20 km in radius.
• It is the only facility in the world, which can receive beet into operation with dry system and produce 3 thousand tons of sugar per day.
• The facility is the only sugar factory, which has the most modern fluidized boiler, which minimizes energy costs.
• It is the only facility in Turkey, which produces liquid sugar from sugar beet.
• In terms of environmentalism values, It is the only and most environment friendly factory in Turkey, which produces 3.1 million saplings per year
• It is the only sugar factory, which has the most modern treatment facilities.
• It is the first and only sugar factory with three vertical 120 ton sugar silos, which can preserve product quality for a long period, thanks to automatic humidty and temperature control.
• Original products have been purchased at the lowest cost from the country, which has the best technology, related to sugar beet, fort his factory.
Cumra Seker is a special facility, prepared using the best in the best conditions, with the world mix.
Contributions of Cumra Seker Integrated Facilities to the economy of the region and Turkey:
• Agricultural support for the farmers of the region
• Contribution for the training of our farmers
• Increasing welfare of our farmers by increasing their income
• Contribution to the development of stockbreeding and stockfarming, thanks to the by-products to be obtained
• Contribution to prevention of immigration from rural areas to urban areas
• Contribution to prevention of unemployment by creating area of employment