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S¸is¸ecam Glass Packaging Group

Içmeler Mah. D-100 – Karayolu Cad. No: 44A – 34947 Tuzla/Istanbul – Turkey
Tel.: +90 - 850 - 2065050 - Fax: +90 - 850 - 2084040
E-mail: info@sisecamglasspackaging.com
www.sisecamglasspackaging.com/en

roducing specially designed glass packaging All companies and plants operating as part of the glass
with various volumes and colors for the food, packaging were incorporated under Anadolu Cam
Pbeverages, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics sec- Sanayii AS¸ in 2000. The Group’s domestic production
tors, S¸ is¸ ecam Glass Packaging Group has a plants further grew with the addition of Bursa Yenis¸ ehir
history that dates back to 1935, when the first plant and Eskis¸ ehir plants in 2006 and 2013, respectively,
was founded in Pas¸ abahçe-Beykoz. Demand rapidly further cementing the leadership of the Group in the
increased after that date, and production had to be industry. S¸ is¸ ecam Glass Packaging Group aims to be-
transferred to the Topkapı Bottle Plant in 1969. In come an international glass packaging supplier that
1976, Anadolu Cam Sanayii A.S¸ . company in is a regional leader thanks to investments and coop-
Mersin (Turkey) was acquired. NNPB, which is an im- eration initiatives in surrounding countries, and owes
portant milestone in glass packaging technology, was half of its turnover to foreign operations. As such, its
used for the first time at this plant in 1988. Today’s first investment outside Turkey was the acquisition of
company headquarter is in Mersin as well. the Mina Plant in Georgia in 1997. This invest-
ment was followed by the establishment of Ruscam
Glass Packaging company which was founded to
follow the opportunities offered by the dynamic struc-
ture of the Russian market and to carry out the opera-
tions in Russia in 2002. Ruscam started to operate the
Gorokhovets Plant as of 2002, the Pokrovsky Plant as
of 2004, the Ufa Plant as of 2005, the Kirishi Plant
as of 2008, and the Kuban Plant as of 2009 S¸ is¸ ecam
Glass Packaging has most recently acquired an exist-
ing glass packaging plant in Merefa, Ukraine in
2011, thus increasing its production capacity abroad
to 1.3 million tons. The S¸ is¸ ecam Glass Packaging
Group currently has a total production capacity of 2.3
million tons/year, which makes it the biggest glass
packaging producer in Turkey, and the fourth biggest
in Europe and the world. The business continues
its production in a total of ten plants, three
of which are in Turkey, five in Russia, one in
Ukraine and one in Georgia.

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