BETA Kimya Opens New Production Facility

BETA Kimya lays foundation for Middle East and Eastern Europe's largest adhesive and sealant production facility BETA Kimya A.Ş., one of Turkey's most established chemical companies, has laid the foundation for the Middle East and Eastern Europe's largest adhesive and sealant production facility. The foundation-laying ceremony for BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus was attended by Turkey's Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, Turkey's Minister of Trade Ruhsar Pekcan, TİM Chairman İsmail Gülle, BETA Kimya A.Ş. Board Chairman Adil Pelister and BETA Kimya A.Ş. General Manager Cihat Sayacı.

With an investment cost of TRY 315 million, BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus is being prepared to serve as a production hub for domestically and nationally produced high-tech next-generation adhesives for the first time in the Turkish chemical sector, with an annual production capacity of 150,000 tonnes and will provide employment to 500 people.

BETA Kimya A.Ş.'s new integrated production facility BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus, designed with infrastructure fully compatible with digital transformation in industry and green building technology with LEED certification, will offer 100 percent domestically and nationally produced innovative products for use in many strategic sectors such as automotive, defense and aviation.

Varank: "BETA Kimya's new production facility will bring fresh momentum to the chemical sector"

Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank,

at the foundation-laying ceremony of Beta Kimya GEBKİM Campus in the Gebze Chemicals Specialized Organized Industrial Zone (GEBKİM), said they were witnessing another exciting day for the real sector that continues uninterrupted even during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Noting that they came together to lay the foundations of the Middle East and Eastern Europe's largest adhesive and sealant production facility, Varank said: "The Beta Kimya GEBKİM Campus, which will be realized with an investment of TRY 315 million, will create new employment opportunities for 500 of our citizens. Since the first day we came to the Ministry with the appreciation of our President, we have put forward a national technology and strong industry vision. At every step we take, we are concerned with developing new policies that will advance this vision further. We are trying to impose an approach on the real sector that encourages localization and directs our companies toward innovation. With BETA Kimya A.Ş.'s new integrated facility investment, polyurethane reactive hotmelt adhesive products and their various derivatives, which have been imported until now, will begin to be produced in Turkey for the first time. Thus, an important input for the packaging, automotive, furniture, construction, defense and aviation industries will be sourced domestically. In the medium term, imports worth 120 million dollars will be prevented. After domestic needs are met, export potential will of course be evaluated. When this factory goes into series production, it will be one of our country's most modern production facilities. I wish the BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus investment, which will bring fresh momentum to our country's industry and chemical sector, all the best. I sincerely congratulate everyone who contributed to this investment, especially BETA Kimya's Board of Directors and İKMİB Chairman Adil Pelister." he said.

Pekcan: "Chemistry is a locomotive sector for Turkey"

Turkey's Minister of Trade Ruhsar Pekcan, participating via video conference at the Beta Kimya GEBKİM Campus Foundation-Laying Ceremony, said she was pleased to be at the foundation-laying ceremony of another investment of strategic importance to the country. Minister Pekcan said: "BETA Kimya A.Ş.'s new integrated production facility investment is truly very important for Turkey. Because it aligns with our country's high-technology and high value-added production and export strategy. Under the leadership of our President, with political stability and effective management system, we will take all necessary steps to bring our country together to the level of high-income countries through more technology, more high value-added production and exports. BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus will create added value in products where Turkey has production gaps and imports, and will enable exports to new markets. It will provide domestic inputs to many sectors in our country such as automotive, construction and defense industries, and will create employment for 500 people. I congratulate the entire BETA Kimya family for these valuable investments and wish them well for our country." she said.

Pelister: "BETA Kimya Gebkim Campus is a product of our vision of creating high value-added"

BETA Kimya A.Ş. Board Chairman Adil Pelister, noting that with BETA Kimya Gebkim Campus they will bring new value to the chemical sector and Turkish industry, said: "As BETA Kimya, we have focused on growth, production and creating high value-added for 34 years. With our Apel and Mitreapel brands, exporting to 75 countries across 5 continents, with approximately 150 products in 9 different categories, we have succeeded in becoming a large industrial family that touches many areas of life from furniture to automotive, textiles to construction and even health with the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, BETA Kimya Gebkim Campus, whose foundation we are laying, is also a product of our enthusiasm for creating high value-added. Our new integrated facility, which we will put into operation with 100 percent domestic and equity ownership and an investment cost of TRY 315 million, will be the Middle East and Eastern Europe's largest adhesive and sealant production facility." he said.

Pelister: "We will provide employment to 500 people and step into 5 new product categories"

Adil Pelister, stating that with BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus they will focus on domestic and innovative products for Turkey's strategic sectors, said: "With our new integrated facility that will have an annual production capacity of 150,000 tonnes, we will provide employment to 500 people and step into 5 more high value-added product categories. Our production campus with LEED certification and environment-friendly green building technology, built on a total of 50,000 m2 with 35,000 m2 of closed area, will be one of the most modern chemical facilities not only in our country but also in the region. We are proud to sign one of the finest examples of the digital transformation drive in industry that our state and ministries expect from us, and to take a step that will add value to our country and chemical sector. With our new production facility, which we will put into operation within the next year, we will be ready for tomorrow's digital production technologies today. I wish it all the best for our chemical sector, our country's industry and our company." he said.

Sayacı: "We will produce next-generation PUR Hotmelt adhesives domestically for the first time"

BETA Kimya A.Ş. General Manager Cihat Sayacı, mentioning that they are among Turkey's 250 companies investing the most in R&D and have always focused on innovative products, said: "With our BETA Kimya GEBKİM Campus, we are signing a modern integrated production facility project that is of great importance for the Turkish chemical sector and fully compatible with digital transformation principles. As BETA Kimya, we have drawn strength from R&D and innovation for 34 years and dedicated ourselves to developing high-tech products. In our new integrated facility, we are also signing a significant R&D investment drive. With an R&D Center Certificate and our innovation hub consisting entirely of Turkish engineers, we are preparing to expand it sevenfold here. With a 50-person R&D team, we will step into silane-terminated new MS technology adhesives and PUR Hotmelt products that we will produce entirely domestically for the first time. Together with sectors of national strategic importance such as defense and aviation, we will carry BETA Kimya into the future with next-generation innovative products specially developed for automotive, packaging, construction and furniture sectors." he said.