PLASFED Information

Turkish plastics industry’s vision for 2023 is to stand out with advanced technology and higher added value such as; aviation, telecommunication, medicine, defense industry, reducing the usage of resources by increasing recycling, increasing energy efficiency in manufacturing technologies, and achieving 4 % of the total country target export of USD billion 500 and 30 % of the total chemical industry’s target export, with USD billion 18. Growing over national economy every year, Turkish plastics industry puts in a successful performance and proceeds to become a global player with its processing capacity. Parallel to its growth, though, problems of the industry keep growing as well. Most of these problems appear to be of structural and domestic origin. Believing that all non-governmental organizations operating in the industry should be in cooperation and coalition under the same roof in order to resolve the problems affecting the prospects of the plastics industry and achieve the industry’s vision for 2023, 5 pioneering associations of Turkish plastics industry, which maintains its determination of rising to a globally recognized position, came together on 28 October 2011 and established the federation of the plastics industry (PLASFED - Plastics Industrialists Federation). Thus, the Turkish plastics industry has also gained a global structure as an organization. PLASFED represents approximately 1.306 companies with its 6 associations.