Alemdar Group

Alemdar Group traces its roots to the early 1930s, when Ahmet Alemdar founded Alemdar Lignite Works, and operates in agriculture and mining in the Thrace region. It entered paddy rice and refined sunflower oil from 1980, founded Alemdar Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. in 1990, and in 2008 added the SUN brand and a refined sunflower oil plant as Alemdar Sun Yağ ve Gıda. The company states that sunflower seed grown in Thrace and bought from local producers is cleaned, crushed and flaked; half of the oil is obtained by pressing and the rest in the extraction unit, and the crude oil is then neutralized, winterized and deodorized in the refinery before packing. It states a sunflower seed processing capacity of 150,000 kg per day and refined sunflower oil production and packing of 120,000 kg per day. The group also runs rice, lignite coal and fuel station businesses.