Can we start the interview by getting to know you and your professional background?
I was born in 1977. I am a mechanical engineer with Msc degree. After I completed my university studies, I did my military service and then began to take charge as manufacturing engineer at one of the leading companies of the cement sector in terms of spare part manufacturing. I gained considerable experience in 2 years and served as a project manager at a company with important references in the cement sector again. (6 yıl) Within this period, I carried out many important projects in our country. As I had aimed to get into business life since the first day of my career, I founded CTN in June 2010.
Can you give us information about CTN Machinery? What are your fields of activity and in which sectors do you offer service?
CTN Machinery’s main field of activity covers cement technologies. Meeting the technological, mechanical and steel needs of the factories, dealing with manufacturing and assembly processes, putting the system into use, and following this, supporting the enterprises in maintenance and revision comprise CTN’s fields of activity.
Can you tell about both finished and ongoing projects of yours?
CTN has carried out important projects since its establishment. Our marathon that initially started with technological manufacturing, assembly and maintenance has reached a point where we offer our customers turn-key solutions especially for the last 2 years thanks to the overseas partnerships. Last year, we put Turkey’s largest RDF plant into use at Denizli Cement together with Beumer. 4 different projects of bag filter production are in progress at our Adana-based factory. Each one of these projects will be sent to a different country.
What kind of advantages do you provide in your projects in the field of energy efficiency?
As you know, the entire world conducts research on energy efficiency today. We provide considerable advantages in energy saving by installing systems with best performance for the projects we carry out for our customers.
You have recently purchased Italian CTP. Can you please inform us about it?
CTP is one of the top 5 brands around the world in the field of air pollution. Established in 1970, CTP is an international company whose filters function in almost every country in the world. Its filters are used in more than thirty factories in our country as well. Briefly, it has very important references in its sector.
Why did you realize this purchase? What is the aim of the purchase? What doors will this aim open for you?
Industrialization has substantially boomed in our country particularly for the last year with the contributions of our government. Our government gives serious support for the production of value added products. You definitely need to match the companies with important references in the sector if you want your products to appear worldwide. At CTN, we leapt forward by adding CTP’s brand value into our effort of becoming a world brand. Joining the forces, CTP and CTN will offer their customers more economic and faster solutions of better quality. All filters to be produced by CTP worldwide will be manufactured for CTN factory. By this means, in our own sector, we will provide our country with significant foreign exchange inflow. Thanks to CTP’s experience in world market, CTN will gain ground in terms of becoming a world brand with the design center it has recently founded.
You provide from abroad a loan opprtunity with lower interest rate and one-year delay in payment. How do the companies approach this?
We can give our customers an advantage of loan with one-year delay in payment for both air pollution and WHR projects. Our objective in this project is to ensure that our customers, in energy-driven projects such as WHY in particular, make payments after they establish their plants without using the working capital and having financial difficulties. This project of ours has newly been put into practice and we have recently received significant feedback. I believe that we will realize highly important projects in 2018 thanks to this project.
Can you talk about your future objectives? Are you planning on a new investment or purchase soon?
At CTN, apart from the investments made in CTP, we also made important technological investments in our Adana-based factory in 2017 so as to produce products of better qualities. In addition, we founded a design center and set goals in order to produce new products. In brief, 2017 has become a milestone for CTN. Our investments will continue without slowing down in the near future. Our goal is to become an engineering company that produces new products for the world by 2023.
What would you like to say for the economic situation of Turkey?
As we all know, our country is at a very important geographical location in the world. Therefore, it will continue to live by maintaining a policy where it always has to protect its territories. Accordingly, this situation causes difficulty in economy. Consequently, all companies need to increase their export items and become a brand in the near future. Economy will revive and a significant contribution will be made to the current deficit following the production of the products with high added value. In my opinion, every company should more care about this matter.
In what way do you think the visa crisis with the United States will affect cement sector and the export?
Feeling the effect of politics closely in every field creates a negative atmosphere for us without a doubt. However, I believe that the two allied countries will settle this dispute as soon as possible and cause relief in all sectors.
Has 2017 been a year in which you have achieved your goals? What are your predictions for 2018?
2017 has been an important year for CTN. We have grown in 2017 thanks to the government assistance and we believe that we will get the fruitful results of this growth in the near future. At CTP&CTN, taking 2018 into consideration, we follow important projects in various countries of the world. We feel hopeful about 2018.
Lastly, what would you like to say to our readers?
At CTN Group, we added such a world brand as CTP to our companies in the 7th year of our establishment. We will keep walking towards the future as a more powerful and reliable brand. We will offer our customers considerable advantages by conducting works with new systems and technologies with higher efficiency in energy. I would like to thank our sector’s esteemed veterans who support us.
