Edip Alpan – General Manager
BCE Proses
“We generate projects that produce viable outputs in the cement industry such as operational improvements, energy efficiency, OPEX and CAPEX planning, strategic planning with investment and modernization projects being in particular, in a number of sectors which carry out production activities.”
BCE Proses is a company that produces solutions in the fields of engineering and consultancy for companies in different sectors, particularly cement. Can you tell us about the company organization and structure in general?
The journey we have commenced for the sake of sharing the knowledge we have gained after more than 25 years of professional experience in various companies and different positions in the cement sector and to reach to further organizations is actually our choice. It is a process which we decided upon after leaving our comfort zones and thinking of what we can do differently. This both strengthens and encourages you if you possess the knowledge that will contribute to all processes from establishing a new plant to making operational and organizational improvements in an existing plant. The subsequent course is formed in the natural flow of the process.
Can you tell us about the services BCE Proses offers to its customers?
We could not anticipate that we would go beyond the cement sector when we first commenced to do this business, but when we started we saw that we were wrong. After all, it is the cement sector in which we spent our years. But later, we realized that we can contribute to many fields in the cement sector from the preparation of raw materials to grinding process, incineration process, efficient use of energy, organizational improvements, investment projects. Therefore, we can provide service in various fields such as operational improvements, energy efficiency, OPEX and CAPEX planning, strategic planning with investment and modernization projects being in particular, in a number of sectors which carry out production activities.”
Which services do you mainly offer to the cement sector in your field of business?
We devoted the majority of our efforts to investment projects. We can completely design within our own organization a cement plant which is planned to be established. We especially focus on abroad in this field. Additionally, we also provide technical consultancy services intended for board of directors.
Having more than 25 years of experience in the sector, as BCE Proses, you are now offering knowledge and experience. In which fields do you create difference?
Our primary target is the cement sector. We prefer to do what we know well and to which we can surely provide contribution. Since we have been in the same processes for many years, we can anticipate that the focus of the professionals operating in the sector are changing constantly due to the changes in priorities and the daily dynamics as a result of the nature of the business. As a consequence, we have witnessed projects and processes that started very rapidly but could not reach to completion.
And we believe that we step in at this point. We bring out projects that provide sustainable cost optimization through operational improvements and productivity increases upon creating common synergy, and we harvest feasible results that produce outputs through accurate planning and roadmaps.
Another topic that we particularly concentrate on is investment consultancy and project management service that we provide to the investors. Process design for accurately examining and meeting the expectations of the investor, creating technical specifications, establishing performance data, managing the technical parameters of tender processes and completing the project by ensuring right quality-cost performance are our among our priority service topics. The main purpose here is to ensure establishment of a project that safeguards the interests of the investor at the utmost level, remains within the budgetary limits and is completed on time.
Are carrying out any efforts intended for foreign markets and companies?
I can proudly and happily say on our behalf that we can take our services abroad too as engineers who were educated in their own country and have developed their experience and knowledge in the sector with the opportunities that our country has offered.
We were able to deliver our investment project consultancy services to countries such as Uzbekistan and Somalia, our efficiency studies in grinding plants to Poland, and our technical consultancy services to Iraq until now. Also, negotiations with our customers operating in Russia and Kazakhstan are still going on.
How did you form your team in order to develop your projects?
We have a dynamic and always accessible organization featuring electrical, mechanical and chemical engineers who came up through the ranks of the cement sector and are experienced in almost every process from maintenance to production, project and plant management.
Which goals and strategies did you set for the following period?
We contacted with cement plants from different parts of the world within this process. Frankly speaking, you can immediately notice that the national cement sector is distinguished in terms of both the technologies employed and the employee qualification. We are way ahead others particularly in terms of knowledge and experience.
As BCE Proses, we are aiming to make use of this vast knowledge and experience to harvest benefits. What we intend to do in the coming period, is to provide our services by focusing our energy more on foreign markets and to establish a structure which exports knowledge that as high added value.