Would you tell us about Sole Beton as a newly established company?
Sole Beton is a company founded in 2017 with the purpose of supplying ready-mixed concrete and cement sector after entering into business partnership with Italian Tekna Chem Company. With Tekna Chem’s experienced technical and technological infrastructure, I believe that our twenty-five years of experience and knowledge in service sector will support us in this different sector as Sole Concrete. Obviously we entered the sector very fast. At the same speed, we continue our introduction and project presentations. Currently we are dealing with the tenders in which we participated. The returns are exciting; we can realize the need for the solutions we offer.
You are making the product sales of Italian Tekna Chem, having a 50-year history in Turkey. How did this formation begin?
The knowledge and experience of people with different experiences in the sector make up the basis for Tekna Chem’s achievements both in Italy and abroad. The highly skilled technical and commercial team of the Company demonstrates production and implementation activities throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, and two main factories based in Italy and Algeria provide customers with technical support for their products, as well as numerous tests for proper usage.
Considering the potentials and needs of our country, we, as Sole Beton, agreed to be the representative of the Company and quickly began to take the lead with the aim of sustaining this service primarily in Turkey, as well as in Turkic Republics and the Middle East.
Will you give information about Tekna Chem’s product range?
Tekna Chem’s product range includes the following,
• Grinding facilitating and quality enhancing additives used in the cement industry,
• Concrete products,
• Aeternum series,
• Resins and sealant products,
• Tunnel, geotechnical and restoration repair products,
• Fibers, separators, surface retarders and co-products for machine cleaning.
With the Floortek application by Tensofloor, Tekna Chem’s flooring department, we provide solutions for industrial floors up to 10.000 m 2 in one place and without joints. We are also quite ambitious in this regard.
You made a great impact in Turkey with Aeternum series. Would you tell us about product features?
Aeternum is a new generation compound in powder form produced by absorption on nano micro silicates. This composition in powder form of the additives is resistant to mechanical pressures, all kinds of chemical or atmospheric attack and provides complete impermeability. The characteristic of Aeternum is to reduce the porous structure of the concrete to zero, to increase the compaction. This gives strength to the concrete, preventing the possibility of micro cracking. The long-lived concrete that we call “Durabil” can be obtained with Aeternum series additives. With these contributions, a lifetime account of 100 years and more can be made easily in design. It offers strength / durability solutions to meet the needs of the most technologic concrete designs in the most challenging environmental conditions. I would say that this series will give very high performance results especially in the high-rise buildings competing with other examples in the world in the prestigious infrastructure projects of bridges, viaducts, roads, subways (tunnels) and in the buildings under the threat of chemical environment due to the coast to sea and sulfate and chlorine danger.
What do you say when your products are compared with competitive?
In the market, other powder additives work with crystallization logic, mostly cement based. As they are sold as waterproofing products with low dosages, additive cutting additives are required in the cement, unlike Aeternum. Otherwise, the strength criteria cannot be met. Therefore, Aeternum cannot be compared with other powder additives. Instead of the principle of cracking, which is the criterion for the sale of crystallized materials, the Aeternum series prevents the cracking of the concrete and the micro cracks have the property of repairing itself. It fully realizes the impermeability target in the cement.
Are you planning of making production in Turkey?
The production in Turkey is scheduled as of the next year. The speed of this planning will be directly proportional to the year-end data of the construction sector. As far as this process is concerned, all kinds of technical support, planning and follow-up will be provided quickly thanks to the technology of our time with Italy, and it will continue to be possible in the construction site itself.
What goals do you have for this year? Do you think your estimates at the beginning of the year will coincide with the year end?
We successfully implemented our product promotion goal between July 2017 and July 2018. This success is greatly contributed by the 2018 concrete fair held in Izmir by Turkey Ready Mixed Concrete Association. The intense interest of the fair participants once again reminded us that we are on the right track and we are pleased to notice that our products are now able to deliver a solution that cannot be met with the “total performance of cement”. In this sense, we are continuing our efforts to reach more projects, producers, maybe even public institutions, to provide information and to provide our solutions quickly.
This year our goal is to increase the rate of our product sales made by the studies on the conditions of Turkey. I think we will reach our year-end target with our Aeternum series products especially for projects that require high strength, water impermeability and longevity.
Where do you plan to see the company in the next 5 years? How do you prepare for this day?
I intend to see the Sole Beton as the first additive manufacturer and the seller of Turkey within the next 5 years. The views we receive for the product milestone during the promotion phase show that this goal will be achieved. I believe that we will achieve this by maintaining the qualities while working with the whole organization with my faith in the technical power of the firm.
In line with the needs of our developing country, I aim to make a difference with our range of products in the last level of concrete technology, and we aim to bring the benefit of our company’s skills to the individual after collecting it first. We are committed to raising the performance of concrete to the latest level and creating a considerable market in the matter.
Will you tell us about yourself? How many hours a day do you work? What are you doing out of work? How do your hobbies add value to your life?
I have been personally involved with my firm in the service sector for 10 years. My priority is to ensure that my firm acquires vision while developing. I always try to move with the quality principle first.
I usually work for 8 hours a day, although my working hours vary depending on the situation of the work. Apart from work, I am also doing life coaching, my personal interest, and getting personal development trainings. I think that these trainings positively affect the relations in my business life and my private life.