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- Kaplamin Ambalaj Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. is a Turkey-based packaging manufacturing company engaged in the production, design, and distribution of corrugated cardboard sheets, boxes, and customized packaging solutions. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Kemalpaşa, Izmir, Turkey, the company operates an integrated manufacturing facility spanning over 50,000 square meters with an annual production capacity of approximately 80,000 metric tons. Kaplamin Ambalaj serves a wide range of commercial and industrial sectors across domestic Turkish markets and export destinations, supplying the agriculture, food and beverage, automotive, chemical, consumer goods, ceramics, and textile industries. The company's core product and service portfolio comprises single-wall, double-wall, and triple-wall corrugated cardboard sheets and boxes produced in A, B, C, and E (micro) flute profiles as well as combination structures including B+C (double-wall), B+E (micro-double-wall), and A+C+B (triplex heavy-duty); agricultural packaging, including ventilated fresh fruit and vegetable cartons, moisture-resistant produce trays, and bulk harvest bins; food and beverage packaging, including hygienic containers and master cartons for meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, eggs, edible oils, and bottled beverages; heavy-duty industrial shipping containers engineered for automotive replacement parts, chemicals, plastics, sanitary ware, and major household appliances; retail-ready packaging, display units, and customized die-cut boxes; and value-added packaging services comprising custom structural packaging design, graphic engineering, multi-color flexographic printing, litho-lamination, die-cutting, gluing, and quality testing certified under ISO 9001 and BRC/IoP standards. In recent company developments, Kaplamin Ambalaj underwent a major change of ownership and control when Çukurova Holding divested its majority equity stake of approximately 83% to an investor consortium comprising Feridun Geçgel and Enver Geçgel of Astor Enerji, Rıza Kandemir, and Ral Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklığı for approximately 18.9 million US dollars. Following this strategic acquisition, the new ownership group implemented extensive financial and operational reorganization initiatives, providing substantial shareholder capital advances exceeding 1.1 billion Turkish lira through mid-2026 to strengthen working capital, overhaul governance structures, and modernize plant operations at the Kemalpaşa facility.