Setaş Kimya San. A.Ş.

Setaş Colorcenter is a chemical company founded in 1966 that has built its business on expertise in color science. It began by supplying products to the textile industry and has since expanded its product range to include paints, chemicals, and special effects for the paper, plastics, and metal industries.

Leveraging the advantages of its location, which bridges Europe and Asia, Setaş Colorcenter effectively facilitates cross-cultural communication. It is a preferred manufacturer and business partner both domestically and internationally, thanks to its high-quality and extensive product range, fast logistics network, and attentive technical service.
By bringing together its cutting-edge technical infrastructure, R&D efforts across all sectors, and experienced research team under the Technology Center umbrella, the company has established a multidisciplinary work system. Through this system, the company aims to develop joint projects with its customers, collaborate with universities, and participate in international research projects to make innovative and sustainable discoveries.

Setaş Colorcenter has become a leader in its fields of operation in Turkey and markets its products in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America. Through the “direct sales from the warehouse to the customer for imported products” and “lean supply system for domestically produced products” practices operated within the Logistic Center, the company has not only increased its competitive strength both domestically and internationally but has also provided its customers with the advantages of minimal inventory costs and rapid supply.

Production Activities

Setaş Color Center continues its operations at three different production facilities in the Çerkezköy Organized Industrial Zone and at a pigment production facility in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. These facilities produce dyes, auxiliary chemicals, optical brighteners, electrostatic powder coatings, and masterbatches for the textile, paper, metal, and plastics industries.

Production, carried out with state-of-the-art equipment and aimed at efficiency, environmental compliance, high quality, and zero workplace accidents, involves various chemical and physical processes such as esterification, diazo reactions, methylation, coupling, injection, and molding.

Production Capacities

Reaction Section: This section, with a production capacity of 6,000 metric tons, produces liquid reagents, liquid acrylic paints, and liquid sulfur paints.

Dispersion Division: This division, with a production capacity of 10,000 metric tons, produces pigment and vat dispersions as well as liquid dispersion dyes.

Chemical Section: This section, with a production capacity of 25,000 metric tons, produces auxiliary chemicals for the textile industry, as well as optical brighteners for the paper and textile industries.

Masterbatch Division: With a production capacity of 10,000 metric tons, this division produces PET, PE, PP, and PA-based colored, black, and functional masterbatches for the fiber, packaging, and cable industries.

Electrostatic powder coating division: This division, with a production capacity of 6,000 metric tons, produces epoxy, PES, and hybrid electrostatic powder coatings.