Centrica is an international energy services and solutions company, founded on a 200-year heritage of serving customers in homes and businesses.
We supply energy and services to over 10 million customers, mainly in the UK and Ireland, through brands such as British Gas, Bord Gáis Energy and Centrica Business Solutions.
Through our trusted brands, we deliver innovative energy and services solutions to help solve customers’ needs, supported by thousands of engineers and technicians. We are committed to energising a greener, fairer future.
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.
We are now Orano!
On January 23, 2018, New Areva has become Orano. Refocused on nuclear materials development and waste management, Orano’s activities encompass mining, conversion-enrichment, used fuel recycling, nuclear logistics, dismantling and engineering. The group has 16,000 employees, with a revenue of 4 billion euros and an order backlog that represents the equivalent of nearly eight years of revenue. Its mining and conversion-enrichment activities place it in the top three worldwide. Toto is a leader in nuclear recycling and logistics, and is developing its business in the medical field.