Our History

The Sunar Cotton Ginning and Rice Mill was established, laying the foundation for Sunar Yatırım.

Sunar Özlem Flour Mill was founded.

Production of starch and starch-based products has begun.

Our Honorary Chairman, Hüseyin Nuri Çomu, began working full-time at Sunar Yatırım after graduating from the Department of Business Administration at Boğaziçi University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.

The foundation for Elita Gıda was laid with the commissioning of an oil production unit at the Sunar Mısır facilities.

The Sunar Feed Mill was commissioned by Sunar Un ve Yem.

NÇS Tarım was established for the production and sale of fresh fruit.

Elita Gıda, one of Turkey’s leading fully integrated facilities for the production of vegetable oils, was established.

In recognition of his social responsibility initiatives, Mr. Nuri Çomu was awarded the “Grand Service Award of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey” by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

All companies have been brought together under the Sunar Yatırım Group.

Sunar Marketing was established to manage the group companies’ international trade operations.

Elita Gıda, one of the Sunar Group companies, entered the ISO 500 list of Turkey’s industrial giants.

Exports to 60 countries surpassed the $100 million mark.

By increasing its refining capacity, Elita Gıda has become one of Turkey’s largest vegetable oil production facilities.

Sunar Mısır’s sorbitol plant has begun production.

Sunar NP was established to produce Turkey’s first certified biodegradable TPS (thermoplastic starch) and biopolymers.

A cogeneration plant was commissioned to meet the electricity needs of the rapidly growing group of companies in a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective manner.

A maltitol production facility operated by Sunar Mısır has begun operations.

Using the first sustainable sunflower farming practices implemented in Europe and Turkey, our country’s first sustainable sunflower oil was produced.

The Sunar brand has been included in the Turquality Brand Support Program by the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Turkey.

The Sunar R&D Center has been approved by the Ministry of Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey.

The cogeneration plant was converted into a combined heat, power, and steam plant (trigeneration plant) by increasing its capacity.

Sunar Yatırım’s first renewable energy investment, a solar power plant (SPP), has been completed and put into operation.

The capacity of the solar power plant (SPP) has been doubled.

Elita Gıda’s crushing capacity was increased 2.6-fold.

Sunar Mısır increased its production capacity for liquid sorbitol, modified starch and dextrin.

Sunar Un ve Yem’s Konya Feed Mill was commissioned.

The sodium gluconate, dextrin and modified starch plants were commissioned.

Sunar Agro was established to engage in agricultural commodity trading and supply raw materials to global customers.

Sunar Un’s Osmaniye Plant was rebuilt and began production at twice its previous capacity.

Investments in Sunar Lidaş were initiated to support licensed warehousing operations.