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"WE ARE PRESENT IN EVERY STEP OF OUR CONTRACTED BEEKEEPERS IN THIS WHOLE CYCLE. WE REACH THE RESULT BY CONTROLLING ALL THE STEPS OF THIS ARDUOUS WORK IN THE MOST METICULOUS WAY. SELLING RELIABLE, QUALITY AND QUALITY-FREE HONEY REQUIRES THIS."


KARAPETEK

The first leg of the cycle in our company is karapetek. Our beekeepers bring the honeycombs to our company after filtering the honey from the honeycombs that they take out of the hive. The name of these combs is karapetek. The reason why beekeepers bring their honeycombs to us is that they cannot keep them in a healthy place. If the combs are not melted and turned into ingots, worms eat the combs. After a while, there is nothing left of the blackcaps that are not turned into ingots. That's why beekeepers bring us their carapaces to be pressed.


SLAT STEAM SYSTEM

The next process is the slat steam system. The slat steam system is the sterilisation and separation of the slatted carapets from the slats. The slatted carapets entering the steam system. It is separated from the slats by taking steam. With this process, both the slats are cleaned from all kinds of diseases and the first sterilisation process of the karapetek is started.


WAX WIPING

The pieces of carapets coming out of the steam system are melted in boilers to be squeezed and turned into ingots. This process is carried out at 120der. It is carried out at a temperature of 120 degrees centigrade. The melted carapets turn into candles that we call beeswax. We pour the liquid wax into our ingot moulds and wait for it to freeze. Since the frozen waxes become thick and hard, worms cannot eat them. In this way, we keep the waxes of all our beekeepers in our warehouses.


HONEYCOMB PRINTING

Bees are very crowded when making combs, because they are trying to maintain a sufficient temperature for the wax by clinging to each other. When the temperature is sufficient, they begin to secrete wax. They produce thousands of hexagonal cells with the wax they produce and form honeycombs by combining the cells they produce. They measure the width and thickness of the honeycomb cells with their sensitive sensing hairs. Bees build a lath comb in an average of 15-20 days. This means that beekeepers can make 1 milking in a season. We throw the beeswax waiting in our warehouses of beekeepers back into the sterilised tanks and then we rest and make honeycomb printing. These combs are printed from completely natural waxes without any additives. We help beekeepers to get 2 or 3 milkings at this point.


FEEDING AND MAINTENANCE

Bees should be fed in order not to cause bee losses during the winter period. In this period, the hive should be supplemented with honey frame or bee cake, fondant sugar. With the mixed ready-made bee cake and fondant sugar produced by our company, we supply our beekeepers with controlled and additive-free bee food in this regard and we have passed one more leg of our controlled system cycle.


ALL AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT

We are the number one supplier of all products and materials such as masks, bellows, propolis traps, vitamins, etc. that can help our contracted beekeepers during the bee care period and the entire beekeeping cycle.


WHOLESALE HONEY PURCHASING

It is the most important point in our cycle. It is the milking and collection of honey and bringing it to our company. In this step, our beekeepers milk their honey into tins in the milking tents. The milked honey comes to our company, our expert colleagues take samples from all the tins one by one. These samples are homogenised. Afterwards, the honeys are analysed in the analysis laboratory of our company and according to the results, the approved honeys are delivered to the warehouse or rejected honeys are delivered to our beekeepers. The approved honeys are barreled or packaged according to the request of our valued customers after the necessary procedures.