Turkish subcontracting at Subcon
Turkish subcontractors are making their presence felt at this year's Subcon exhibition.
Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ICOC) is one of Turkey’s largest nongovernmental organizations aiming to promote foreign and domestic economic development within the city of Istanbul, as well as support the Turkish economy as a whole.
To achieve these goals, ICOC helps identify and solve issues relating to doing business in/with Turkey’s private sector; improves business and investment environments domestically and abroad; enables greater understanding and access to foreign markets; and advances international commercial relations.
With nearly 300,000 active members, ICOC is one of the largest chambers of commerce in the world and an active member of the international business community. Each year, ICOC hosts more than 50 foreign trade delegations, organizes around 15 fairs and exhibitions abroad in order to contribute to the introduction of Turkish companies and products to foreign markets, and organizes more than 100 informative meetings, conferences, seminars and events.
The Turkish Subcontracting Exchange was established in 1990, with the co-operation of The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce and UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), to match international demand with local supply.
The Subcontracting Exchange is a technical information source and promotion mechanism for industrial subcontracting. It acts not only as the meeting point and the instrument of regulation between the supply and the demand of industrial subcontracting orders, but it also assists both parties, particularly the small and medium subcontracting enterprises.
Turkish subcontractors at Subcon include:
Large fasteners for heavy applications
Turkish exhibitor Berdan Bolt & Nut will be showing a range of fastening components, covering bolts, nuts, studbolts and anchors, for heavy engineering and energy sector applications.
This will include heat and pressure resistant studbouts in ASTMA 193 Gr B7, B8 and B9 as well as 10.9 steel construction bolts nuts and washers and CE certified dip-galvanised connecting bolts for wind turbine towers. It will also show special nits and studbolts to connect wind power blades to rotors, hammer head anchor bolts to secure rolling mill equipment and dam shutter fasteners for hydroelectric plants. These latter bolts can be 200mm in diameter and 9.8m long.
Recent investments at Berdan to support this include new eco-friendly hot dip and electro-galvanising plants – which ensure there is no hydrogen embrittlement. It also has a fully equipped laboratory, heat treatment plant and a newly established production capability to produce 1 to 3m fully threaded special bolts.
The company has been established for 40 years and is the only company in Turkey in its sector with the CE Certificate and TUCSamark, and one of only two companies in its sector with product liability insurance.
All products are delivered with independent ISO EN 3.1 (B) certification.
Special achievements to meet customers specific requirements include the supply of hot dip galvanised, fully threaded studbolts in lengths of two to three metres, 155mm diameter dam shutter bolts weighing 1.5 tons and 5.5m long 140mm diameter hammer head bolts to anchor rolling mill stands in iron and steel plants.
www.berdancivata.com
Precision machined components
Gozukucuk Manufacturing is a centre of excellence for the manufacture of precision machined components, specializing in low-to-medium volume, high integrity products. Its machining expertise has been gained over more than 30 years and covers all machining disciplines including CNC turning, CNC milling, 5-axis milling and wire eroding.
Part of the Turkish group at Subcon, Gozukucuk invests in the latest available machine tool technology to ensure it maintains the highest technical offering.
Machining is supported by a production engineering department utilising offline 2D, 3D and 5-axis programming software, with the capability to program machining and inspection directly from the customer’s CAD model.
www.gozukucuk.com
More than machinery
HAS GROUP member “MT” has been manufacturing special parts and machinery for the textile industry for over 15 years, producing them to customers’ designs in a facility that has benefited from 10 million Euros of investment in the latest manufacturing technology.
The company’s focus is on the largest parts possible that can be produced on CNC and multi-axis machines.
As well as the textile industry, customers now include manufacturers of machinery for the defence sector, steel mills, power generation, electric motors, thermoforming, reduction gear manufacturing and plastic injection moulding.
MT not only manufactures machinery parts, but can also carry out mechanical and electrical installation of the machinery.
MT operates in its new plant constructed on its own land in Corlu, Turkey that has updated its system to TSE-EN ISO 9001-2008 last year.
www.has-group.com.tr
Quality service for customers
Mercan Makina will show samples of fabricated products including steel and aluminium mailboxes and metal bodies for kiosks.
The company has recently added two new CNC punch presses, a further laser and a 4m press brake to its production facilities, and will have all of its welders certificated in the first half of this year.
One of its biggest investments is in gaining ISO 16949 certification, which expects achieve it in 2012.
Mercan has been supplying the automotive industry since it was established and also manufactured leather processing machines in late 1990s when it sold around 1200 machines all over the world. It also makes explosives equipment for mining and construction, as well as the mailboxes and kiosks and works regularly with a number of large customers.
The company says that these customers expect it to be innovative and offer the highest quality of service with the lowest level of manufacturing defects – typically 1000ppm in a production process. Aftersales is also an important part of this service.
www.mercanmak.com
UKE Machinery is a leading Turkish subcontractor supplying the water pump, automotive, rail and defence sectors.
Components produced include, for example, tractor spares, column pipes to API standards, couplings and forged shafts, and multistage submersible pumps, impellers, draining heads, other pump parts
The company has an extensive machine park with universal and CNC machines, and can process most metals including iron, steel, aluminium and bronze to customers; drawings to a high quality and at competitive prices.
The company operates under an ISO 9000 quality systems and is a preferred supplier for the Turkish State Water Works, Turkish Railway Association and defence industry companies.
Although UKE does not have its own foundry it is in a region where it has access to 200 castings suppliers, and works with longstanding partners to offer patterns and castings and then machines them in its own facilities to ensure quality and competitive prices.
Cylinders and forgings
FMC Hydraulic, part of the Turkish group at Subcon, has been producing standard and special hydraulic cylinders up to 1 meter diameter and 8 meters length customers in the iron and steel industry, heavy plant, press manufacturing, and special purpose requirements. Cylinders are either produced to the customer’s design or from a standard range.
As a group company of AYD Chassis, FMC can offer closed die forged parts rom 250 grams up to 60 kilograms. Using its own tooling facility, it can develop new products in a very short time period. These forged products are used in applications that include the automotive industry, hydraulics industry, construction machines and agriculture.
As well as complete cylinders, FMC also produces and sells spare parts, especially for series production. These spare parts are mostly used for heavy construction equipments and railway industry. They include track links for construction machines, hubs and drawbars for the rail industry and shafts for generators.
www.fmchydraulic.com
