The company, founded in 1993, has established a reputation for leadership in new printing techniques and technologies with customers across Europe, as well as with many of the leading Turkish brands. With a dedicated workforce of over 500 people, the company’s plant extends over 50,000 square metres from fabric weaving and warp knitting, via extensive dyeing, finishing and printing operations, to final garment making-up and packaging.

“We supply to customers in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, including to major brands such as Inditex and Otto,” says the company’s production director Fikri Savas. “We have now established offices in both Barcelona and New York in order to both consolidate and expand our geographical reach, and sustainable production is very important to both us and our customers. We want to improve on this with every new technology investment we make.”

Mission

On its mission to achieving continuous progress in error-free and resource-efficient manufacturing, Ilay has just taken delivery of a new Monforts Montex stenter range, with a working width of two metres and eight TwinAir chambers.

“This installation provides us with much improved control options for all process parameters and compared to the old stenter it is replacing, we are particularly impressed with the energy savings we are making,” Mr Savas says.

Achieving energy savings on Montex stenters has been a key focus for Monforts designers and engineers in Germany for many years.

With the TwinAir heating chamber system within a Montex stenter, top and bottom airflows can be regulated completely independently of each other, ensuring heat is only applied when and where it is required. The Optiscan balancing system ensures continuous automatic evaluation of the distance between the nozzles and the fabric for highly economical and contact-free drying.