Products
Every grade on the spec sheet.
What Turkish mills make, what Turkish mills need, and what buyers abroad ask us for. Typical values below are for orientation; every offer carries the mill's own specification.
Containerboard & cartonboard
Finished paper and board, made in Türkiye.
Türkiye's mills are strongest in recycled containerboard and coated board. We place these grades with converters and packaging groups abroad, and source complementary virgin grades for buyers inside Türkiye.
| Grade | Typical basis weight | Typical uses | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraftliner (virgin, brown & white-top) | 115–200 g/m²; heavier on request | Outer liners for heavy-duty, export and agricultural packaging; wet-strength variants | Mostly sourced into Türkiye from Europe and the Americas |
| Testliner (recycled; T1, T2, T3; white-top) | 90–200 g/m² | Liners for corrugated board, shelf-ready and e-commerce packaging | Core Turkish export grade; white-top testliner widely available |
| Fluting (recycled / Wellenstoff) | 90–160 g/m² | Corrugating medium for standard boxes | High-performance and low-grammage options from the newest machines |
| Semi-chemical fluting | 112–160 g/m² | Medium for high-strength, humid-climate and fruit packaging | Sourced into Türkiye; limited domestic production |
| Coated duplex board (grey-back / white-back) | 230–450 g/m² | Folding cartons, food and pharmaceutical packaging, print | Strong Turkish production; sheets and reels |
| Folding boxboard & SBS | 200–350 g/m² | Premium cartons, cosmetics, confectionery | Sourced into Türkiye on request |
| Sack kraft (extensible / semi-extensible) & MG papers | 70–100 g/m² | Cement, flour, chemical and food sacks; bags and wrapping | Turkish production in the Black Sea region; also sourced in |
Strength values (BCT/ECT/SCT, burst, RCT), moisture, Cobb and sizing are specified per order. Reel diameters, core sizes (typically 76 mm / 3") and pallet formats are agreed at contract.
Recovered paper
Fibre for Turkish mills.
Turkish containerboard mills run on far more recovered paper than the country collects, which makes Türkiye one of the world's steadiest buyers of OCC and mixed grades. We source to the mill's furnish, in the grade definitions both sides recognise.
Import documentation — Annex VII, importer licences, pre-shipment inspection where required — is handled together with the buyer's compliance team, before booking.
- EN 643
- ISRI / ReMA
- Annex VII
- Pre-shipment inspection
- Export bales
| Grade | EN 643 | ISRI | Typical use in Türkiye |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old corrugated containers (OCC) | 1.05 | 11 | Testliner and fluting furnish — the workhorse grade |
| Supermarket corrugated | 1.04 | — | Testliner and fluting furnish |
| Double-lined kraft cuttings (DLK) | ≈ 4.01 (new corrugated shavings) | 13 | Premium furnish for high-strength liners and fluting |
| Mixed papers and boards (sorted) | 1.02 | 54 | Fluting, coated board middle layers |
| Sorted graphic paper for deinking | 1.11 | — | Tissue and deinked pulp |
| Sorted office paper | 2.05 | 37 | Tissue and hygiene papers |
| Old newspapers (ONP) | 2.01 | 6 | Deinking and board |
Pulp & specialties
For tissue, printing and hygiene producers.
Türkiye's tissue and printing-paper mills buy market pulp from the Americas, Iberia and the Nordics. We broker bleached hardwood kraft (eucalyptus, birch, acacia), northern bleached softwood kraft, BCTMP and fluff pulp, plus specialty papers on request — release liners, MG kraft, greaseproof, thermal base.
- BHKP — eucalyptus, birch and acacia bleached hardwood kraft
- NBSK — northern bleached softwood kraft for strength
- BCTMP & fluff — for board bulk and hygiene products
- Specialty papers — quoted case by case
Packing & shipping
How it travels.
Reels & sheets
Reels typically 100–150 cm diameter on 76 mm cores, wrapped and end-capped; sheets on pallets, stretch-wrapped and strapped. Loaded in 40' HC containers or on curtain-sided trucks for road routes through the Balkans.
Bales
Export bales of recovered paper, typically 1.0–1.3 t each, loaded to the destination's road weight limits. Photos of every load and bale-weight lists travel with the documents.
Terms & documents
EXW, FCA, FOB, CFR, CIF or DAP. Commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading or CMR, certificate of origin (A.TR within the EU–Türkiye customs union), and Annex VII for recovered paper.