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A family business for the past 80 years, the Swiss company Vitra collaborates with leading designers to develop innovative products and concepts for contemporary home and office environments. Joining a portfolio of furniture classics by Jean Prouvé, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Verner Panton, these products are used worldwide by architects, companies, the public sector and private individuals to build inspirational spaces for living and working. The Vitra Campus with buildings by some of the world’s leading architects and the Vitra Design Museum with its exhibitions on design and architecture, design archives and a comprehensive furniture collection are all part of Vitra. They inspire visitors, inform the design process and create an atmosphere in which innovation flourishes. Find the privacy statement at www.vitra.com/privacy

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.

Aksa Akrilik Kimya Sanayii A.Ş., a company of Akkök Holding, one of the established industrial groups of Turkey, was founded in 1968 in Yalova to meet Turkey’s need for acrylic fiber and started manufacture with a capacity of 5000 tons per year in 1971. Becoming the world’s greatest producer of acrylic fiber with the investments it has made and the innovations it has introduced over the years, Aksa is now a global giant with approximately 300 customers in over 50 countries across 5 continents. With more than 1200 employees, Aksa is the world’s largest and Turkey’s only acrylic fiber producer with premises of 502 thousand square meters and a capacity of 315,000 tons per year. Being the leader of its own sector with its success in production as well as the management systems, environmental practices and social responsibility projects implemented, Aksa supplies raw materials for textiles and technical textiles in many diverse areas ranging from carpets to upholsteries, sweaters to socks, silk to handwoven products, velvet to rugs, blankets, awning and industrial fibers due to its wide product range. Broadening its new and special product portfolio each year with its innovative approach and having started the production of outdoor fibers as an addition to textile fibers in 2001, Aksa is also growing more and more assertive every day with respect to technical fibers with its products: flock tow, homopolymer and filament thread. Aksa will continue to maintain its position as the global leader as it has for years, with its further increasing investment plans, new projects, new products and growing business volume.