BRUSSELS, February 23, 2023-

The fallout from the tragic earthquake that struck Turkey on February 6 is still being determined, and so is the damage to the country’s paper sector. The human toll of the quake, which registered 7.8 on the Richter scale, has been immense, with the number of victims topping 40,000. The damage to the paper industry in the Kahramanmaraş region surrounding the quake’s epicenter in the south of the country remains to be fully quantified, but it appears to have been significant, and some mills have had to stop production.

One of those was Essel Kagit’s Osmaniye tissue mill. The firm said shortly after the quake that while the tissue PM was not damaged nor was there any serious damage to the mill itself, the decision was made to halt production out of consideration for the mill’s workers and the scale of the human suffering. According to market sources, after being down for approximately one week, the Osmaniye mill is now up and running again. The mill can produce some 31,000 tonnes/yr of tissue.

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