- Business
- Alkim Alkali Kimya A.S. engages in the mining, extraction, production, and sale of inorganic chemical materials, primarily natural sodium sulfate and related salts for the textile, pulp and paper, glass, and detergent industries. The company produces crystal sodium sulfate, refined sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate with at least 52% K2O purity, various sodium chloride salts including raw salt, washed salt, refined table salt, and premium quality dried salt, as well as magnesium derivatives such as MgCl2 and kainite; it also manufactures paper products through its 80%-owned subsidiary Alkim Kağıt San. Tic. A.Ş., encompassing paper pulp, coated paper, photocopy paper, ivory, glass paper, wet strength label paper, soap paper, special paper for religious books, label papers, soap packaging papers, envelope papers, blueprint papers, white kraft papers, and cup papers. Operations span multiple facilities in Turkey, including chemical plants in Afyonkarahisar (Dazkırı-Acıgöl-Koralkim sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, and dried salt plants), Ankara-Çayırhan (underground sodium sulfate mine extracting glauberite, thenardite, and gypsum with a lime kiln), and lake businesses in Bolluk Facilities, Cihanbeyli, Konya (crystal sodium sulfate, refined sodium sulfate, raw salt, refined salt); the paper facility is located in İzmir-Kemalpaşa Organized Industrial Zone with an annual capacity of 75,000 to 90,000 tons. Founded in 1948 by Chemical Engineer Vedat Kora in Istanbul as a small manufacturing workshop and converted to a limited liability company in 1957 before incorporating as a joint stock company in 1963, Alkim Alkali Kimya A.S. is headquartered at İnönü Cad. No:13, Taksim Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, with shares traded on the Borsa Istanbul under the ticker ALKIM.IS and a public float of 57.62%. Recent developments include sustained export growth and intensive sales activities in the first half of 2025, alongside premium insurance intermediary production reaching approximately 8.30 million Turkish Lira through its agency NART Sigorta, while production capacities remain at 420,000 tons/year for sodium sulfate, 50,000 tons/year for potassium sulfate, and segmented salt outputs totaling up to 411,000 tons/year across types.