Mr. Abdullah Ekrem Nefes Answered Our Questions
In the interview we held, Haskan Boya Sanayi General Manager and Borpaint Boya ve Yalıtım Teknolojileri A.Ş. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Abdullah Ekrem Nefes answered our questions.
Nefes drew attention to the importance they attach to R&D and innovation, and gave
information about the products they developed.
Could you please briefly tell us about your educational and professional background?
I was born in 1985 in Ankara. I am married and have two children. I graduated from Başkent University International Trade. In the last year of my university education, I had been to America with the Cultural Exchange Program and completed my education there.
In my childhood, I grew up with paint in our family factory’s production environment. For this reason, I can say that the place of paint in my life is not only a job, it’s my best hobby that I enjoy. Since 2010, I started to work professionally at Haskan Boya.
After that, I am still working as the General Manager, which I’ve started to work in
this position in 2015. In addition to all these, I am the founder and CEO of Borpaint A.Ş.
Could you please give information about Haskan Paint’s history and milestones? What is the current structure of Haskan Paint today?
Haskan Boya (Paint), founded by Bayram Nefes and Hakan Nefes in 1994, is a family company that has been in the paint sales and marketing industry for about 40 years.
Haskan Boya has used its experience in continuous quality and business development, and invested all its investments in production systems. Today, in an area of 7.000 m² production facility, Haskan Boya serves the market with an annual paint production capacity of 50.000 tons.
To which industries and with what kind of products does Haskan Paint mainly serve? Could you please give information about Haskan Paint’s products, brands and services?
As Haskan Boya, we serve almost the entire water-based and solvent-based paint industry and produce paints for construction, industry and furniture groups.
We produce Doruk, 606, Woodmaster, Chromat, Borpaint and Chromat furniture group paint brands under our roof.
Could you please tell about your domestic and international sales activities? To which regions and what kind of products does Haskan Paint mainly sell?
Under the project and dealership system, the products we produce are sold to all regions domestically. In addition, we export more than 30% of our annual production abroad.
Our exports, mainly to Africa, Middle East and Northern countries, have been switched to Europe and America with the affect of pandemic.
By producing more efficient and high-value-added products, we are trying to contribute to Turkey’s export power, which increases because of the pandemic affect.
Could you please give information about Haskan Paint’s innovation and R&D studies? Do you have any projects that were developed in the context of university - industry cooperation?
We continue to use our investments in our current business, to establish a sustainable production system and, most importantly, to produce with an innovative technology by constantly renewing.
And also; Our R&D laboratory works devotedly to do the best in improving existing products and developing new products that the market needs.
We are a company that is in constant cooperation with universities. Recently, we have completed our R&D activities related to thermal insulation and fire retardant products with Çanakkale University.
We continue to work with our university students, both in the development phase and in the use of the finished product, for the newly developed products.
Could you give information about Haskan Paint’s environmental policy and sustainability approach? What kind of works and studies are performed in the area of worker health and safety?
As we all know, the climate change crisis affects every aspect of our lives. Therefore, we are more than responsible for the products we produce. We have to do what is necessary to produce products with low VOC value and near zero carbon value.
We are trying to integrate our precious metals in our country into paint production. We
have also started the sale of our successful insulation group paint types. The most important point here is; the dyes produced are completely natural and do not harm
the environment.
This is an exciting and proud picture for us. Along with the increased inspections of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security for the last 10 years, we also take important measures regarding worker health and safety.
As Haskan Boya, we allocate some of our investments for the further development of human health and safety in our facility.
In addition, we take great care to ensure that the products we produce are safe paints for human health, even after use. I believe that everyone should be more sensitive about this issue.
What are the priority criteria of Haskan Paint when creating investment plans? Does Haskan Paint have any investment plans for near and far future?
First of all, we act by prioritizing human health, worker health and safety while planning our investments. In a constantly developing and changing world, investment in people and business is of great importance for a sustainable life.
We aim to expand our facility in the near future and establish a newer and faster production line. While doing all these, we plan to support our country in increasing exports by being sensitive to the environment, taking into account human health and worker safety at the highest level.
