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Konya Exports October 2014
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urşunel products have reached 30 countries in the
European Union, Mideast, North Africa, and the
Turkic Republics. Kurşunel serves primarily to mac-
hinery, automotive, white goods, defense and furniture
industry and then to all manufacturing sector. Mainta-
ining its innovative and leading position in its working
are is the primarily objective of the firm. We conducted
an interview with the Hasan Kurşunel, owner of the firm
about firm’s activities and objectives.
Q- Would inform about your company’s establishment
and development shortly and your working area and
brands?
A-Established in 1985, Kurşunel Kalıp Ltd. Şti., since
establishment to date has become a noteworthy brand
representing quality by achieving technological transfer.
Our firm offers its sheet metal progressive molds, auto-
motive and tractor spare parts to the main producer
customer groups with confidently through its modern
factory, also our firm makes quick connecting elements
(Toggle Clamp) with our KUKAMET brand known mostly
in industry.
Q- Generally, do you serve to which sectors with your
main product groups?
Toggle Clamp
A-Our working area can be defined as “work-section
positioning mechanisms and technologies’ sub-industry
group where 75 percent of equipment and spare
parts are produced and serves primarily to machinery,
automotive, white goods, defense and furniture industry
and then to all manufacturing sector. Our industry group
has become an important support element by offering
strategic, functional and productive-based solutions to
main sectors.
Our products (toggle clamp) are frequently used especi-
ally by the firms manufacture fixture. These products are
indispensable complementary part for welding fixtures,
control fixtures, measuring fixtures. Regarding fixtures
shelter many matters in its structure such as standardiza-
tion, speed, security, ergonomic, quality their demand
is increasing with every passing day. The establishments
which do not show care to this sensitiveness would pay
heavy price. Any establishment which has international
working culture does not endure to lose customer, mo-
ney and reputation. This has constituted a compulsory
to provide sustainable quality in order to be competitive
and meet needs of customers.
Q- Would you inform about performance of 2014, also
your latest investments, new product activities, projects
realized, features of the new products?
A- In the structure of KURŞUNEL, with separating every
kind of activities which do not produce value, reducing
amount of production factors, using of equipment inc-
ludes advanced technology and qualified labor force,
acting with a correct work principle at one-time in order
not to make faults that happened before; the works,
which have been maintained since 2011 to date, began
to ripen the fruits in 2013 by implementing the main
performance criterions of simple transformation in the
production processes.
In this scope, intensive R & D studies are maintained in
our structure. Reducing of the production costs, product
range differentiation have been provided by develo-
ping new innovative product and new processes this
also enhancing our market share raised 30 percent,
so our general share has reached by 55 percentages.
One of the two clamps which are used in our country is
KUKAMET brand.
In 2013, our establishment has clinched its information
and technology-based production infrastructure through
its investments made in order to get benefit in the utmost
level of technology. Our new products pneumatic group
and grippers have been displayed and their field and
application feedbacks have realized in a delighting
level.
In addition, in order to be able to offer suitable professi-
onal solutions to the need, our establishment has signed
protocols with the solution partners from Italy, Germany
and the UK by evaluating customer-focused works and
expectations. In this direction, offering multi-solutions
have been aimed with hydraulic group swing and
cylinder distributorship and Heavy Work Clam Group
distributorship.
Kurşunel maintains
innovative and leading position
Hasan Kurşunel, owner of the firm