Miller Magazine Issue: 148 April 2022

86 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MILLER / APRIL 2022 Exporting from Samsun, the strategic port city of the Black Sea, to four continents, Yaşar Group is shooting for the sky with its new factory investment. The company, which is a global player in the production of pre-cleaning, drying, pro- cessing and packaging machines in the field of paddy, rice, hazelnuts, nuts and grains, is experiencing the excitement of opening up to new markets with the facility it has built in Samsun with a cost of 200 million TRY. The company, which has established turnkey facilities with an annual capacity of 300 tons/hour in its factory in Terme, Samsun, will increase this to 750 tons/hour with the new production facility it has built with its own resources. Thanks to its new facility with an increased capacity and service quality, Yaşar Group, which supplies machinery to more than 65 countries, aims to increase this number to 100 by increasing its production capacity by 200 percent. Seyit Ahmet Polatcan, General Manager of Yaşar Makina Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret Şirketi, within the structure of Yaşar Group, who gave information to Miller magazine about their new investments, stated that the vital importance of the grain and food processing industry was been better under- stood with the pandemic process and that they decided to increase their production capacity because they could not respond to the demands. Noting that they compete with German and Japanese companies in the sector, Polatcan said, “We want to increase our market share by increasing our production capacity and have a greater say in the sec- tor globally.” Seyit Ahmet Polatcan, General Manager of Yaşar Makina Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret Şirketi, answered our questions as follows: Mr. Polatcan, first of all, could you briefly tell us about your company and its activities? We operate in 6 different sectors such as construction, food, renewable energy, fuel oil, tourism and foreign trade. However, our main field of activity is machinery manu- facturing. Yaşar Makine, which started its activities in the manufacturing sector in 1969 with the entrepreneurial ser- vice policy it has adopted, currently produces paddy and rice processing machines, hazelnut processing machines, on-vehicle equipment, grain handling, grain drying ma- chines, parboiling and boiler systems, and color sorters in Yaşar Makina increases production capacity, aims to rise exports fivefold “We are increasing our production capacity by 200 percent with our state of the art facility with a closed area of 30 thousand square meters, which we built with our own resources in Samsun. We want to increase both our quality standard and our market share in the world with the facility integrated into robotic systems. In the next 5 years, we aim to increase the number of countries to which we export machinery from 60 to 100, and our export volume from 15 million dollars up to 50 million dollars.” Seyit Ahmet Polatcan General Manager Yaşar Makina Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret Şirketi

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