ravago türkiye

Ravago was founded in 1961 by Raf Van Gorp, who had the luminous idea to recycle production waste from the plastics producing petrochemical companies. From there, the company grew into a successful service provider to the petrochemical industry as a distributor and reseller of plastic resins. Diversification towards production and distribution of building products guaranteed a second revenue line in Europe. Today, the Ravago group is the number one service provider in the global market of plastics, rubber and chemicals. Ravago is present in all major continents to service clients in their local markets. Its suppliers are among the top companies in their respective sectors and constitute a stable portfolio of names. Ravago has enjoyed outstanding long-term commercial relationships with many of its customers and suppliers and has contracts with several partnerships over large geographical areas. Ravago considers itself to be a Global Service Provider of raw materials to the plastic and rubber industries, specialized in resale, distribution and manufacturing. The group also has a building and construction division specialized in the distribution and manufacturing of construction materials. The group operates in more than 55 countries, covering all continents. Ravago is among the leading plastics materials, compounds and chemical additives operating with 285 companies and more than 8000 employees. Ravago’s investment in Turkey dates back to 1998. The Group operates in 13 locations in Turkey. Ravago is among the leading plastic compound producers in Turkey and the leading plastics & chemical additives distributor of leading global brands. Ravago Group in Turkey currently has a workforce more than 1300 employees. For more information, please visit the Ravago website: www.ravagoturkiye.com

tofas

Tofaş is a Turkish automotive company whose stock is held equally by FCA-Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Koç Holding. Established by the late founder of the Koç Company, Vehbi Koç, Tofaş is today one of FCA’s two R&D centers in Europe. Tofaş, Turkey’s sixth largest industrial establishment, has a production capacity of 400,000 vehicles per year and has 6,500 employees. It operates on a one million m2 site and is constantly increasing its competitive strength. It is the only automotive company in Turkey producing both passenger vehicles as well as light commercial vehicles. At the Bursa Plant, -which has a privileged position in the highest rank by achieving “Gold” production level within 170 Fiat Group factories of the World Class Manufacturing- it carries out production for the Fiat, Citroen and Peugeot brands within its Minicargo project; and Fiat, Opel, and Vauxhall within its New Doblo project. Tofaş represents six brands (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Jeep, Maserati, and Ferrari) in the domestic market.

taha group

Taha Group is a vertically integrated full-service apparel manufacturing group in Turkey providing a wide range of services from innovative product development to logistics arrangements. Headquartered in Istanbul, Taha Group has in recent years expanded its production base with new factories in various locations throughout Turkey but also overseas.

Kordsa

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.

SASA

SASA, polyester, elyaf, filament iplik, polyester bazlı polimerler, özel polimerler ve ara ürünlerde dünyanın önde gelen üreticilerinden biridir. Sektöründeki liderlik sorumluluğu ile, güçlü teknik mirasını ve inovasyon kültürünü yüksek üretim kapasitesi ile harmanlayan SASA, tasarımdan, üretim ve dağıtım aşamalarına kadar tüm süreci başarıyla yönetir. Polyester sektöründeki üretimine 1966 yılında başlayan SASA, kuruluşundan bugüne, aralıksız yatırımlarıyla hızlı büyüme sürecini hep sürdürdü.SASA, polyester sektöründeki öncülüğünü sürdürmek ve bu konumunu daha da güçlendirmek amacıyla 2000 yılında dünya kimya devi Dupont ile joint-venture tarzı ortaklık kurdu ve DupontSA adını aldı. Sabancı Holding’in, 2004 yılında Dupont hisselerini satın almasıyla, DupontSA ismi, ADVANSA olarak değiştirildi. Grubun Türkiye organizasyonun adı da 2005 yılında ADVANSA SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. oldu.2011 yılında ise Sabancı Holding, ADVANSA BV’ye ait tüm hisseleri satın aldı ve Eylül 2011’de ADVANSA SASA olan adını SASA olarak değiştirdi. 30 Nisan 2015 itibariyle, Sabancı Holding hisseleri ERDEMOĞLU Holding tarafından satın alınarak, ortaklık yapısı % 51 ERDEMOĞLU Holding, % 49 halka arz edilmiş hale gelmiş oldu. 2015 yılı Ağustos ayında tamamlanan zorunlu pay alım süreci sonunda, ERDEMOĞLU Holding A.Ş.’nin SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş.’de sahip olduğu hisse oranı %84,80’e ulaşmıştır. Bünyesinde Nobel, ICI ve Dupont teknolojilerini barındıran SASA, 4 bin 300’ü aşkın nitelikli çalışanı, yüksek kapasiteli öncü üretim tesisleri ve 2002 yılında kurulan Araştırma Geliştirme Merkezi ile güçlü bir teknik altyapıya sahiptir. SASA’nın, Adana’da, entegre üretim tesislerinin yer aldığı 2.181.000 m² alan üzerinde kurulu merkez işyeri, İskenderun’da 55.625 m² kendi hammadde depolama tesisi, İstanbul ve Ankara’da da irtibat büroları bulunmaktadır.