Our History

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

The foundations of Sunar Un were laid.

Production of starch and starch-based products has begun.

Our Honorary Chairman, Hüseyin Nuri Çomu, began working full-time at Sunar Investment 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 Türkiye’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 Türkiye” by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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

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

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

Exports to 60 countries surpassed the $100 million mark.

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

Sunar Mısır’s sorbitol plant has begun production.

Sunar NP was established to produce Türkiye’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 Türkiye, 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 Türkiye.

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

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

Sunar Investment’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 & Yem has started production in Konya, marking its second production location.

The sodium gluconate, dextrin and modified starch plants were brought into operation.

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

Sunar Un’s Osmaniye Plant was transformed into Türkiye’s most modern flour mill, with production capacity doubling from its previous level.