Customer Success Story from KIPAS | SUNTECH Textile Machinery

SUNTECH & KIPAS MENSUCAT ISLETMLERİ A.S.
Automated Material Handling Solutions Reducing Labor Costs & Bosting Efficiency

KIPAS is a leading company in Turkey's textile industry, possessing a complete textile supply chain. From spinning, weaving, and dyeing to fabric production and garment manufacturing, it can handle everything independently, making it a typical vertically integrated manufacturer. KIPAS mainly produces various cotton, blended, denim, and woven fabrics, maintaining high product quality standards and serving as a long-term, stable supplier to well-known European and global apparel brands. In 2018, KIPAS began collaborating with SUNTECH, purchasing electric warp beam handling trolleys and repurchasing the electric tractors in 2025. This effectively improved warp beam handling efficiency, allowing KIPAS to save labor costs and optimize its production processes.
SUNTECH & KIPASKIPAS MENSUCAT ISLETMLERİ A.S.
Automated Material Handling Solution Reduce Labor & Boost Efficiency

KIPAS is a leading company in Turkey's textile industry, possessing a complete textile supply chain. From spinning, weaving, and dyeing to fabric production and garment manufacturing, it can handle everything independently, making it a typical vertically integrated manufacturer. KIPAS mainly produces various cotton, blended, denim, and woven fabrics, maintaining high product quality standards and serving as a long-term, stable supplier to well-known European and global apparel brands. In 2018, KIPAS began collaborating with SUNTECH, purchasing electric warp beam handling trolleys and repurchasing the electric tractors in 2025. This effectively improved warp beam handling efficiency, allowing KIPAS to save labor costs and optimize its production processes.

Background

KIPASKIPAS MENSUCAT ISLETMELERI A.S. (KIPAS) is one of Turkey's leading integrated textile manufacturing groups. Leveraging the group's strong overall strength and diversified industrial layout, KIPAS has built a complete industrial chain covering "spinning—weaving—dyeing and finishing—garment processing," possessing full-process independent production capabilities from raw material procurement to finished fabric and some garment delivery. The company's annual fabric production capacity reaches 80-100 million meters, and its daily yarn production capacity reaches 330-500 tons, ranking among the top in the cotton, blended, denim, and functional woven fabric sectors. With a stable quality control system and high-end product development capabilities, KIPAS has long been a supplier of mid-to-high-end yarns and fabrics to well-known European and global brands, and is a key supplier in the international fast-fashion and functional textile markets.

Against the backdrop of profound adjustments in the Turkish textile industry, continuously rising labor costs, and increasingly stringent EU compliance and sustainability standards, KIPAS is actively promoting automation upgrades and green manufacturing transformation to consolidate its competitive advantage. Since 2018, KIPAS has partnered with SUNTECH to introduce the electric warp beam transport trolley to optimize material-handling efficiency in workshops. With the expansion of production scale and increased transportation demands, the two companies further deepened their cooperation in 2025 by upgrading to electric tractors, providing a more efficient and safer solution for their high-load, high-frequency workshop transportation scenarios, and laying a solid foundation for the company's continued advancement of lean and intelligent manufacturing.

Honored Customer Journey

Leveraging its complete integrated industrial chain, robust production capacity, and long-established brand reputation in the European market, KIPAS has developed into a highly representative comprehensive textile manufacturing group in Turkey and even Europe. Against the backdrop of high costs, reduced labor, upgraded order structures, and increasingly stringent EU compliance requirements in the Turkish textile industry, KIPAS continues to promote automation and lean manufacturing transformation in its workshops to ensure its leading position in the mid-to-high-end woven and denim fabric market. In 2018, with the accelerated pace of workshop production and increased demand for high-load warp beam transportation, KIPAS faced real challenges in material handling. SUNTECH provided a warp beam transportation solution, effectively alleviating workshop scheduling pressure and improving overall transportation efficiency.

SUNTECH always prioritizes customer needs. Throughout the cooperation, we fully valued KIPAS's core requirements for "high load adaptability," "EU compliance production standards," and "high cost-effectiveness." Through multiple rounds of technical communication, on-site working condition matching analysis, and close collaboration with the local service team, we ensured that the equipment could be precisely integrated into its complex production environment. Since its commissioning, the equipment has operated stably and remains in excellent condition. KIPAS gave positive feedback to SUNTECH on its equipment stability, project integration efficiency, and localized service response, which laid a solid foundation of trust for deeper cooperation between the two parties in the future.

Challenges & Why SUNTECH

Business Challenges

As a highly integrated textile conglomerate in Turkey, KIPAS boasts a massive production capacity in yarn, woven fabrics, and denim. However, with increasing demands from European orders regarding delivery time, compliance, and sustainability, coupled with rising labor costs and a shrinking workforce in Turkey, KIPAS has encountered bottlenecks in its internal material handling operations. Early-used traditional transport equipment was bulky, lacked mobility, and was difficult to schedule in a compact production layout; it also presented problems such as labor-intensive operation, inconsistent efficiency, and safety hazards. Furthermore, insufficient power and range anxiety affected production rhythms in high-frequency transport conditions, particularly on ramps and over long distances.
Product Requirements

KIPAS sought to introduce an electric material handling system that combined high load capacity with flexible scheduling, adaptable to complex workshop aisles and multi-area flow scenarios, while maintaining stable output under high-frequency continuous operation. They paid particular attention to the equipment's traction performance, range, safety design, and long-term reliability. Simultaneously, the equipment had to be easy to operate, reducing reliance on skilled workers to alleviate labor cost pressures, and seamlessly integrate with existing production processes without disrupting the current production rhythm.
Why SUNTECH

After comparing multiple suppliers and solutions, KIPAS ultimately chose to partner with SUNTECH. This decision was based not only on the comprehensive advantages of the equipment in terms of load capacity, compact structure, and cost-effectiveness, but also on our long-term project experience in the textile material handling field. The equipment purchased in 2018 has been operating stably ever since, its performance verifying its durability and reliability, and enhancing customer trust in the brand. In 2025, a further upgrade will be implemented, introducing electric traction equipment. Through continuous technical communication and face-to-face exchanges at exhibitions, KIPAS recognized the stable performance and efficient service response of SUNTECH products, considering them crucial for maintaining competitiveness and advancing automation upgrades during industry adjustments.

SUNTECH Solutions to Help Out

Automated Material Handling Solutions

Addressing KIPAS's pain points in high-load material transportation, complex workshop scheduling, rising labor costs, and increased safety risks, SUNTECH tailored a material handling solution better suited to its actual working conditions, focusing on both stabilizing production rhythm and reducing overall operating costs.

Firstly, in workshop environments with limited space and high transport frequency, we helped KIPAS achieve a balance between high load capacity and flexible scheduling through compact electric radial conveyor systems. This solved the problems of traditional equipment's large size, large turning radius, and congested aisles, making material flow smoother and reducing waiting and dwell time.

Secondly, addressing the pain points of laborious manual pushing, difficulties dragging on slopes, and insufficient battery life affecting production continuity, we optimized the traction and power system configuration to ensure stable output even under heavy loads and complex road conditions, avoiding disruptions to production rhythm due to mid-operation shutdowns or insufficient power. This change not only reduced the labor intensity of operators but also significantly reduced safety hazards.

Through this series of upgrades, KIPAS has not only replaced equipment but also improved the efficiency and safety management capabilities of its internal logistics system, providing solid support for its continued service to international brands and consolidation of its leading position in the industry.

Reviews from KIPASKIPAS MENSUCAT ISLETMLERİ A.S.

KIPASKIPAS MENSUCAT ISLETMLERİ A.S. expressed their gratitude to SUNTECH and its partners for their invaluable support

SUNTECH equipment has been running very well and stably since 2018, and the service team is also excellent!

-- Mr. Ali Oksuz

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