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Chain production stands out as one of the biggest forces behind the iron and steel sector. In the iron and steel chain exports, which reached $ 4.4 million with an increase of 23.95% in the first quarter of the year, the first chain factory in Turkey with a share of 90%, Eginlioglu chain industry stands out.

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İSTANBUL (TR) - Iron and steel, one of the locomotive sectors of Turkey, realized exports of 6 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 20% compared to the previous year. One of the largest shareholders in this table was the iron and steel chain sector. According to TurkStat data, exports of the sector in the first quarter of 2021 increased by 23.95% compared to the same period last year and registered as 4.4 million dollars. Germany, France, Spain and Romania were the countries where chain exports were made the most. Orçun Eginlioğlu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkey's first chain factory Eginlioğlu Chain Industry, said:“We anticipate that the sector, which closes 2020 with exports close to $ 16 million, will reach $ 20 million this year. As a company that makes 90% of our country's chain exports alone, we are aware of our responsibility. In this context, we continue our activities in our production facility in Balıkesir Organized Industrial Zone, with our registered trademark Force Chain, we aim to grow by 18% in production and 25% in our exports in 2021,” he said. 

“We export 85% of our production to 32 countries”

Chain brand with the Force, lifting, transportation and cargo security, maritime, aquaculture, mining, fishing, forestry, automotive, building supplies, agriculture and livestock, energy, construction, as well as many industry-specific products, indicating that the developed Eginlioglu, “1942 Turkey's first chain factory that we went to on the road today Eginlioglu industry chain, Sons metal products, Eginlioglu R & D, trade and Industry Chain Eginlioglu Force Keti from Germany GmbH Behas 7 companies including textile and foreign trade serves Behas,  we export 85% of our production to 32 countries. Our most important markets include Central Europe, America, Australia and China. Thanks to our advanced technology, we are positioned as the highest capacity manufacturer in Europe in our field. Our goal is to be a global power in our sector by taking the right steps well planned in time,” he said. 

Annual production capacity will reach 25 thousand tons 

Orçun Eginlioğlu, Turkey's iron and steel chain sector in order to increase competitiveness in the new investments will sign the following details by recording shared: “despite the covid-19 epidemic, in 2020, we increased our production by 14% compared to the previous year, our exports by 19% based on foreign currency. On top of these figures, we want to increase the 32 countries we actively export to to 50 within 2 years. We are at the planning stage of our new production facility, which will have a closed area of 9 thousand square meters. We aim to make this plant operational with 100% capacity up to 1.5 years. In this way, we will reach our number of employees, which is 200, to 350, and our production capacity, which is 15 thousand per year, to 25 thousand tons. We want to be a model production facility that not only buys the technology with our 20% patented lines, but also produces and creates higher added value with the technology it produces. We dismantled three chain factories, two of which were previously closed in Germany and one in Romania, as a plant with state permission and brought them to Turkey and revised some of these lines and incorporated them into production. Now we are negotiating with a manufacturing plant in Spain that has fallen into crisis. After obtaining the necessary legal permits, we plan to add this plant to our existing production capacity.”