As a conscious industrial company increasingly growing with investments and having adopted the environmental responsibility as a principle, HALKALI KAĞIT KARTON SAN.ve TİC.A.Ş. has been the first company that received "Packaging Materials Collecting and Sorting" and "Recycling Plant"
SARGÜNOĞLU KAĞIT, that is one of the first private companies of the paper industry, was founded by Mr. Orhan SARAL, Mr. Halit Ziya TÜRKOĞLU and Mr. Bahattin GÜNEŞ in an area of 6000 m2 in Halkalı - Istanbul in 1976.
The projects of the cardboard machine, that started to operate with a capacity of 4.500 tons/year, were realised by Mr. Orhan SARAL, who had been one of the founders of ORMUBAN KAĞIT.
Orhan SARAL- Founder
Orhan SARAL has made important contributions and services not only to HALKALI KAĞIT KARTON SAN.ve TİC. A.Ş. but also to the Turkish Paper Industry.
He was born in Trabzon/of in 1937. He went into trading when he was 16 years old and was engaged in timber, transportation, raw tea trading and finally worked as a contractor until his arrival at Istanbul in 1972. He got married in 1962 and had six children.