With its 1000 acres of company own land, Kütaş Agro is a major player in herb production and a pioneer in sustainable farming.
Kütaş Agro alone accounts for 10% of Turkey’s oregano production. Through manual weeding, drip irrigation, and custom-made threshing machines, we ensure quality and sustainability from the very beginning of the value chain. With its new land development project, Kütaş Agro has become Turkey’s first sustainable and Rain Forest Alliance certified organic herb producer.
Strategically placed within the Free Trade Zone in Izmir, Safe Spice provides globally approved sourcing capabilities for Cumin, Aniseed, Coriander, Blue poppy and Fennel. All seeds are processed on its state of the art seed cleaning line and finally checked by our infra-red & color sorter. Safe Spice is able to guarantee 99.8% pure and allergen-free seeds, making it a global leader in our seed product ranks. Safe Spice specializes in producing premium quality of herbs, particularly parsley and basil, through the use of unique infra-red and optical sorting technology in its herb processing facility.
Safe Spice uses special technology designed to sterilize herbs and spices while ensuring 5 log validated salmonela reduction with minimal color and volatile oil loss. This inimitable capability sets a class of its own and is validated by international certified laboratories.
A sub-brand of Safe Spice, Artisan specializes in products that require delicate hand-packing such as Saffron, Laurel leaves, Bouquet Garni, Thyme-on-branch. Due to its success and the increasing demand for packing at source, Artisan expanded its facilities in 2017 to include a new automated packing line. Artisan services include pouch, box, jar and specialty packing.
Kütaş Essential Oils provides nature’s pure essences, concentrating the power of herbs that
we value so much.
Kütaş, brings it’s expertise to oil distillation, servicing our valued customers.
Our facility, which is equipped with state-of-the-art steam distillation units and laboratory has already started its operations in February 2021. Our current Tournaire®️ distillation unit capacity is 30.000 liters/year with plans in place to rapidly increase this figure over the coming years. Our products are guaranteed to meet all agreed specifications and global legislations.
Kütaş Group Herbs and Spices processing infrastructure makes it possible to produce and supply the world’s highest quality oregano and laurel leaf oils.
Safe Spice Houses its own validated lab. Certus, which conducts thousands of tests each year:
- Noxious weed seed testing - Aflatoxin, Ocratoxin testing - Insecticides (including Organochlorine)
- Pesticide testing - Acaracides, Fungicides - Illegal dyes, ECH residue tests
- Gluten level testing - Growth regulators, Herbicides - Essential oil components identification
- Allergen testing - Microbiology testing (Certified)
- ASTA EU compliant physical and chemical testing
With its 1000 acres of company own land, Kütaş Agro is a major player in herb production and a pioneer in sustainable farming.
Kütaş Agro alone accounts for 10% of Turkey’s oregano production. Through manual weeding, drip irrigation, and custom-made threshing machines, we ensure quality and sustainability from the very beginning of the value chain. With its new land development project, Kütaş Agro has become Turkey’s first sustainable and Rain Forest Alliance certified organic herb producer.
Strategically placed within the Free Trade Zone in Izmir, Safe Spice provides globally approved sourcing capabilities for Cumin, Aniseed, Coriander, Blue poppy and Fennel. All seeds are processed on its state of the art seed cleaning line and finally checked by our infra-red & color sorter. Safe Spice is able to guarantee 99.8% pure and allergen-free seeds, making it a global leader in our seed product ranks. Safe Spice specializes in producing premium quality of herbs, particularly parsley and basil, through the use of unique infra-red and optical sorting technology in its herb processing facility.
Safe Spice uses special technology designed to sterilize herbs and spices while ensuring 5 log validated salmonela reduction with minimal color and volatile oil loss. This inimitable capability sets a class of its own and is validated by international certified laboratories.
A sub-brand of Safe Spice, Artisan specializes in products that require delicate hand-packing such as Saffron, Laurel leaves, Bouquet Garni, Thyme-on-branch. Due to its success and the increasing demand for packing at source, Artisan expanded its facilities in 2017 to include a new automated packing line. Artisan services include pouch, box, jar and specialty packing.
Kütaş Essential Oils provides nature’s pure essences, concentrating the power of herbs that
we value so much.
Kütaş, brings it’s expertise to oil distillation, servicing our valued customers.
Our facility, which is equipped with state-of-the-art steam distillation units and laboratory has already started its operations in February 2021. Our current Tournaire®️ distillation unit capacity is 30.000 liters/year with plans in place to rapidly increase this figure over the coming years. Our products are guaranteed to meet all agreed specifications and global legislations.
Kütaş Group Herbs and Spices processing infrastructure makes it possible to produce and supply the world’s highest quality oregano and laurel leaf oils.
Safe Spice Houses its own validated lab. Certus, which conducts thousands of tests each year:
- Noxious weed seed testing - Aflatoxin, Ocratoxin testing - Insecticides (including Organochlorine)
- Pesticide testing - Acaracides, Fungicides - Illegal dyes, ECH residue tests
- Gluten level testing - Growth regulators, Herbicides - Essential oil components identification
- Allergen testing - Microbiology testing (Certified)
- ASTA EU compliant physical and chemical testing