Miller Magazine Issue: 148 April 2022

87 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MILLER / APRIL 2022 its production facilities established on a 60.000 m2 closed area and 90.000 m2 open area. We offer turnkey solutions to our customers along with the design, manufacturing, construction and assembly stages. The robust body structure of the machines we produce, the serial operation and the variety of machines with the advanced technology with many different technical fea- tures have made us one of the leading companies in the sector. By following the technology, we produce new gen- eration machines and offer them to the world market. We export 70% of our production. Our company, which has been constantly renewing itself since its establishment, to- day sends machinery to more than 65 countries, primarily Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Afri- can countries. You have made a sizable investment in Samsun. What drove you on to make such a huge investment decision? We saw that we had difficulty in responding to the de- mands in our factory located in Terme, Samsun. As a com- pany that can see new possibilities and chances with a focus on growth, we have decided to increase our field capacity by 100 percent and our production capacity by 200 percent. Could you tell us about your new facility? We will use automatic workbenches integrated with robotic systems in the facility with a closed area of 30 thousand square meters, which we built with our own resources, and we will make our production line faster with belt-type systems. Since we preferred to grow step by step, we could not have fully de- signed the existing facility in Terme. The new facility, on the oth- er hand, is based entirely on exports and is being established with an automation system. Thus, we will be able to produce more with the current employment. In other words, while we are producing 500 machines per month with 300 people and we will double this production volume with the same employ- ment capacity. Thus, we want to increase our market share in the world and simultaneously our quality standard. Our compa- ny, which competes with German and Japanese companies in its sector, has outdistanced its competitors with its production quality. We want to have a greater say in the sector globally by increasing our production capacity. What goals did you set for yourself in the sector in con- junction with this state-of-the-art facility? We aim to increase the number of countries we export to from 65 to 100 in the first 5 years. We export an average of 15 million dollars per year. In the next 5 years, we aim to increase this figure to 50 million dollars.