paintistanbul & Turkcoat 2021- Organic Coatings, Polymers and Related Materials Virtual Congress was held successfully.
paintistanbul & Turkcoat 2021 Organic Coating, Polymer and Related Materials Congress hosted its visitors in a virtual environment between 08-09 December 2021. With 2 opening speeches and 10 sessions, with a total of 31 oral presentations and 17 poster presentations by domestic and international speakers, The Virtual Congress lasted for two days.
Scientists from Universities, Research Institutes and Industry shared their research results and reflected the state of technological accumulation in the world in some fields.
Virtual Congress started with the opening speeches of İKMİB Chairman of the Board Adil Pelister, Bosad Chairman of the Board M. Akın Akçalı, Bosad Board Member, Exhibition and Congress Working Group Chairman Hakan Ünel and Congress Scientific Committee Chairman Dr. Engin Çörüşlü.
The virtual congress organized by the The Association of Paint Industry (Bosad); İKMİB carried on the main sportsmanship and BASF as the registration sponsor, and 17 companies, which are valuable stakeholders of the industry, became sponsors for this congress. The paintistanbul & Turkcoat Virtual Congress, the only international congress of our paint industry, was a great success with the participation of 804 spectators from Turkey and abroad.
This year at paintistanbul & Turkcoat Virtual Congress, presentations which are prepared by experts about all processes regarding nanoparticles, nanostructures, functional paints, testing and analysis, sustainable technologies, new raw materials, and decorative paints in the paint industry were shared, and information was given about the most up-to-date information and latest technologies in the sector.
The chemical industry is working hard to contribute to the supply processes, production, logistics processes, innovation and exports as the output of all these, which is the most important factor for the country's economy to achieve sustainable growth is to scale up in the economy.
Mr. Adil Pelister, Chairman of the Board of Directors of İKMİB, who emphasized the need, acknowledged as “In order to grow our industry and national economy and raise it to the level it deserves on a global scale, we must focus on high targets” and continued his words as follows:
“As İKMİB, we have set our 2030 target as 40 billion Dollars of chemical exports. We aim for products that produce high technology and high added value that are equivalent to the new digital green economic principles we aim for”.
In addition, Mr. Pelister gave the good news that the Chemical Technologies Center, which will provide the opportunity to produce new and high-tech products for our industry, where internationally accredited reference laboratories, R&D Center and digital library are located, will be opened in 2022.
Bosad Board of Directors Mr. M. Akın Akçalı said, “Turkish Paint industry, which has a 1.5-2% share in the World Paint Market, is a bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa in terms of its geographical location.
As industrialists, we experience that we are at a level that can compete with manufacturers all over the world in terms of production technology and product quality, and even transfer know-how, even in the most challenging markets we enter with our own brands, and we are proud of this level we have reached.”
Akçalı continued his words as follows: “We think that our exports will grow by 20% in terms of tonnage by the end of this year. At this point, I think that our paintistanbul & Turkcoat Exhibition, which is held with the participation of national and international paint, raw material, production equipment and packaging manufacturers, has a critical importance especially for growth in export markets. Artkim Fuarcılık A.Ş. organized the Exhibition, which we were not able to realize for 2 years due to the pandemic.
We will hold it between 17-19 March 2022 at the Istanbul Expo Center by taking the Covid-19 precautions with our company.” He concluded his speech by thanking the academicians and R&D, P&D managers, researchers and audience who participated in the virtual congress.
Hakan Ünel, Bosad Board Member and Chairman of the Exhibition and Congress Working Group said; “Our aim is to contribute to the vision and knowledge of our industry, while making our congress one of the most well-known and followed events on a global scale.
The importance and potential of our sector, which operates at the intersection of Europe-Asia-Africa, will increase in the coming years with the right strategies. Complementing each other, the international congress and Exhibition cycle will undoubtedly be one of the most important cornerstones of this development.” said.
Mr. Ünel said, “We understood once again that the future is shaped in the light of science, research and development. Only in this way can we achieve the results we aim for economically as the paint industry. This is exactly why we must strive to raise the level of our congress even higher every time.”
Bosad Congress Scientific Committee Chairman Dr. Engin Çörüşlü stated that the only way to differentiate in exports is to design products with unique or superior features and offer high added value to customers, and to produce them and present them to the market.
Çörüşlü continued as: “In other words, the target is to create new products with a high level of innovation. Companies have a tool that can provide this opportunity, R&D Departments that can conduct qualified research. R&D Departments are departments that require very important infrastructure.
I'm not talking about buildings and equipment here. The main issue here is the highly qualified researcher. Research is also a business of tradition. It is quite new in our country that researches and researchers start to get out of universities and start to organize in companies. The R&D incentive law was published in 2008.
However, I think it is possible to make up for our lack of tradition with our highly qualified workforce. Here, we need very well-educated young people who have been educated on the basis of science, critical reason and free thought, not on the basis of obedience to authority and belief throughout their education life, starting from primary school to university.
To be innovative, we need researchers who can put forward marginal, unconventional, unconventional thoughts, dare to ask important questions and seek answers, and take risks.
If we do not have such researchers, we can only make small innovations through copying, but these will not increase our unit prices at the desired level. This is very precise. We should not forget this either.
A risky project means a risky investment in a way, because risky projects are projects with a relatively low chance of success. They are like diving into deep seas that have not been visited before, which are not yet well known, so they are risky.
In this regard, our company partners and senior managers should be able to take risks like our researchers and accept that 10-15% of research projects are reserved for risky projects with low chance of success. These projects have a high risk of success, but if they are successful, their returns will also be high”.
Dr. Çörüşlü concluded his speech by stating that companies that emphasize research and can ensure their researchers' creative and ambitious work will have a high competitive power, and that only such companies can confidently move forward into the future.
