Goble Competitors

Kordsa’s success story begins in 1973 with Sabancı Holding’s plant investment in Izmit to produce tire cord fabric for tire manufacturers. Through the years, Kordsa becoming the market leader in Turkey has also achieved a leading position in global markets by a great know-how on reinforcement materials and processes, its market leadership, strong R&D practices, open innovative approach and strategic perspective in the tire reinforcement industry. Kordsa has been globally recognized as “The Reinforcer” thanks to its technology and market leadership, strong global footprint and 49 years of experience in the reinforcement technologies. Kordsa, reshaping the industry with its “The Reinforcer” position and its strong innovative approach, has entered new business fields and has implemented its tire reinforcement know-how into construction reinforcement and composite reinforcement industries. Kordsa, the leader of the reinforcement technologies, has established the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence in Technopark Istanbul in 2014. The center became active in 2016 in cooperation with Sabancı University. In this center, lecturers of Sabancı University, PhD students and Kordsa employees will be working under the same roof. In this cooperative model, which will be a pioneer in Turkey, Kordsa implements and conducts the “open innovation” concept. Currently, over 5000 global employees of Kordsa work to deliver reinforcement technologies to the world.

Erdemir, the main company of the OYAK Mining Metallurgy and one of the most valuable industrial assets of Turkey, was established in 1960 under a special law, in order to be the first domestic producer of flat steel, which the Turkish industry necessitates at that time. Erdemir produces plates, hot and cold rolled, tin, chromium and zinc coated flat steel and supplies basic inputs to automotive, white goods, pipes and tubes, rolling, manufacturing, electrics-electronics, mechanical engineering, energy, heating equipment, shipbuilding, defense, and packaging industries.

Asil Çelik A.Ş. has been founded in 1974 to produce quality and alloyed steel products, mostly for automotive industry, and started production in 1979. Construction of Asil Çelik premises has started in 1974 and started to production in 1979. Investment includes a meltshop with an EAF, rolling mills for bars, finishing lines to control surface and interior quality of the bars as well as the laboratories for the quality control. A functional organization structure has been designed, special emphasis has been given to specialization and recruitment of experienced and educated personnel in the field of quality and alloyed steel. Raw materials are supplied from domestic and global markets in compliance with the technical specifications prepared according to international standards. All the raw materials are tested before they are introduced to the system. Main raw material scrap is chosen from scrap types most suitable for quality and alloyed steel production. Orders from domestic and global markets are produced according to international standards and/or customer requirements. With process controls at every stage of production, the products are made available for shipment to the customer. The capacity, which was 150.000 ton/year in the beginning, has been increased until year 2000 to 260.000 ton/year crude steel and 235.000 ton/year end-product as a result of new investments and improvements. After that, the crude steel capacity has reached to 700.000 ton/year, end-product capacity has reached to 450.000 ton/year with the new investments.