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Şişecam

Can Şişecam, a century-old industrial glass giant, modernise its treasury and supply-chain finance infrastructure — centralising cash globally via Kyriba and pioneering digital trade instruments — to unlock working capital efficiency at scale across 14 countries?

Founded1935
HQIstanbul, Turkey
IndustryVertical SaaS / Manufacturing
The story

Founded in 1935 as Turkey's first state-backed glass manufacturer, Şişecam grew over 90 years into one of the world's top glass and chemicals producers with operations in 14 countries. The 2020 corporate restructuring unified subsidiaries and relisted the group on Borsa Istanbul. Its embedded finance evolution has been treasury-first: adopting Kyriba to centralise cash and payments across fragmented international subsidiaries, and most recently pioneering digital trade finance instruments (Working Capital Notes under UK ETDA law) with ETR Digital Flownote technology and İşbank, signalling a shift toward digitised supply chain finance.

Last 12 months
2026-01
2026-01
Product timeline
1935
Founded as Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları A.Ş., Turkey's first glass manufacturer, established with state backing.· pivot
2020
Completed a major corporate restructuring, consolidating group subsidiaries under a unified Şişecam brand and listing on Borsa Istanbul.· pivot
2022
Deployed Kyriba treasury management system to centralise cash visibility and payment operations across 14-country operations.· banking
2025
Received IFC financing package to support flat and solar glass manufacturing expansion in Tarsus and Mersin.· lending
2025
Issued first Working Capital Note (WCN) — a digital negotiable instrument under UK Electronic Trade Documents Act — via Faturalab/ETR Digital Flownote technology, financed by İşbank, under a facility worth up to $400mn.· lending
The stack
Lending
Working Capital Note (WCN) — digital negotiable instrumentIFC debt financing — working capital and capex
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