HydroTur Sales Manager Candan Ş. Dandin Answers Our Questions

In our pleasant conversation, Candan Ş. Dandin, Sales Manager at HydroTur Treatment Systems, answered our questions.

Could you briefly tell our readers about yourself, your education and professional background?

I was born in Denizli in 1984. I work as Sales Manager at HydroTur Treatment Systems. I graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Chemical Engineering. For about one year, I studied Process Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in Italy through the Erasmus student exchange program. After my studies, following a brief experience in textile import-export, my path crossed with HydroTur treatment systems and I started working as Sales and Project Engineer in 2008. Subsequently, as someone who loves what they do, their company and their sector, I was promoted to my current position as Sales Manager at the end of 2010.

Could you provide information about HydroTur's founding process and the stages it has gone through to the present day?

HydroTur Treatment Systems began operations in 2008 as the Turkish representative of Italian company Hydro Italia. Previously operating only in water treatment, the company has gradually increased its project partners and product range according to market needs over time. With the contribution of the experience and references held by its partners, HydroTur has signed successful projects in the Turkish market and progressed on an upward trajectory, strengthening its market position over the years. It has achieved the honor of being the first company that comes to mind for corporate firms' treatment systems and chemicals needs.

What types of products does HydroTur mainly supply to which sectors? Could you provide information about HydroTur's products, brands and services?

HydroTur provides services in industrial water treatment systems including paint shop sludge separation systems, chemical wastewater treatment systems, biological treatment systems, reverse osmosis systems, water softening systems, sand carbon filters, evaporators, mechanical oil separators for oil removal baths, etc. With these systems, we serve the automotive primary and secondary industry, as well as the plastics, galvanizing, construction, aluminium, chemicals, electrical, electronics and machinery industries. Additionally, for printing, packaging, paints and similar sectors, we perform solvent recovery from waste liquid solvents through Formeco brand distillation units and recovery from gaseous solvents through regenerative activated carbon systems. Within the scope of stack gas treatment, we implement turnkey projects with Brofind brand regenerative and recuperative thermal oxidizers, incinerators, VOC concentrators and DeNoX systems, complying with European standards and air pollution control regulations limits. Additionally, in chemical supply, along with all types of treatment chemicals, we gain customer satisfaction especially for paint shops with paint coagulants, paint flotation chemicals and cabin coating chemicals produced in Hydro Italia reactors.

Could you provide information about your employee profile? Do you provide technical training to your employees? Can we learn about these trainings?

Our organization comprises Environment, Chemistry and Mechanical Engineers with experience in treatment and machinery sectors. In addition, we have a personnel profile with technical strength, solution-oriented approach and emphasis on customer satisfaction, including electrical and machinery technicians and technicians. From the quotation stage through to project development, production, installation and turnkey setup, we provide comprehensive service. With the technical service provided after delivery, our personnel become the customer's partner. Beyond technical training provided to our employees, we also offer training in social topics. In addition to training on technological developments in treatment membranes, pumps and other mechanical components, we support our personnel in language training such as communication, advanced driving techniques, English and Italian. In this regard, we operate under the guidance of specialized consulting firms.

Could you provide information about HydroTur's environmental policy and sustainability approach? What can you say about your efforts in occupational health and safety?

Due to its environmentally conscious identity, HydroTur strives to work with environmentally friendly technologies and chemicals and to provide products to its customers within this scope. Although we would prefer otherwise, waste generation cannot be prevented as a result of some processes. HydroTur is a company that attaches great importance to recycling. In this sense, we begin by sorting wastes according to their classes at every stage from product dispatch to the customer. Subsequently, we make every effort to store them under appropriate conditions and, when possible, recycle them and/or dispose of them under appropriate conditions. Within the scope of new regulations, all our employees receive necessary occupational health and safety training and health screening checks by joint health centers we have contracted with in the provinces where we operate. Furthermore, necessary precautions are taken based on current risk analyses conducted in the workplaces. Particular care is also taken in the use of personal protective equipment. Above all, the safety and wellbeing of our employees are our priority.

Could we learn about your thoughts on industrial paints, coatings and surface treatment sectors in Turkey? What do you think are Turkey's advantages and disadvantages in these sectors?

Turkey has developed itself in all respects and has reached quite a good point in this regard as well. In a sector previously dominated only by foreign brands, the emergence and increasing numbers of local companies is a source of pride for our country. Now, from raw materials to finished products, all types of products can be sourced domestically at the best quality. Nevertheless, I do not believe that sufficient importance is given to R&D activities in our country. I hope that university research and investment incentives for companies' "Research and Development" activities will be increased and made more attractive. Through this, we can advance Turkey's position in the world.

Do you have a message you would like to convey to the sector?

We work in a sector that continuously develops itself and maintains market dynamism with new technological products. This naturally creates great opportunities to develop ourselves in line with increasing competition. Not only product and process quality, but customer-friendly solutions with more environmentally friendly and easier-to-apply products have reached quite a promising level. I wish for the continued vitality and increasing dynamism in the paints, coatings and surface treatment sectors to persist at the same pace without any decrease.