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Q- Would you announce about objectives and expectations of your
company in 2015? Will you have new product or investments?
A- The year 2015 will be an intensive fair year as last year. WIN Pneu-
matic on 19-22 May 2015, KONMAK WIN Machinery on 12-15 February,
Tehran Industry Fair on 5-8 October are the fair we will participate
definitely. Our new product catalogue in which our current and new
products take place is 80 pages has become a source of document.
In order to raise our products’ quality more CNC automatic clinching
workbench and automation, which currently have not existed in any
firm in Turkey, have been completed.
As of 2014 September, infrastructure, which allows our products to be
marketing via e-trade, has been accomplished.
Q- Would you inform about your company’s foreign trade activity, do
you work with which countries in this topic, what are your medium term
objectives in foreign trade?
A- We enjoy a rightful proud due to achieving 90 percent of the total
exports in KUKAMET brand clamp product group through our estab-
lishment. Our products have reached 30 countries in the EU, Mideast,
North Africa, and the Turkic Republics.
Nowadays establishments are obliged to make up a distinction in
a very serious and continuously way in order to compete with their
competitors in the global competition in every area. The stabile ac-
celeration which we have caught to maintain innovation, pioneering
and leading establishment in our own area is our primarily objective in
medium and long-term.
Q- Would you tell us your assessments about your sector?
A-Advanced science and technology level and paralleling to this
developed and changed world markets have caused outstanding
changes in industrial products in terms of qualification and functiona-
lity. While quickly developing technology and continuously changing
market conditions want more economic and higher quality products,
in addition to these, customers also want more flexible and much
functional products.
Per capita productivity has increased 25 folds in the past 130 years.
Of which as much as 13 folds from physical product increase, as for
the rest part stems from working period of people that has reduced to
half of the previous period. Physical production increase is achieved
by only robotic and automation technologies as well as instantly and
flexible production processes.
Today’s working period that reduced up to half of previously working
time, living in a wellbeing level that 13 folds higher, not only through
mechanization that brought by industrialization revolution, but also inc-
reasingly use of robot and automation technologies and domination
of information technology day by day.
Q- Would you tell your solution proposes with your sector problems?
A- In industry, small and medium sized enterprises are steadily sub-
dued by big and foreign multi-national companies. These enterpri-
ses manufacture with a small profit margin by making subcontract
production for the world markets. As for some of them do not have
chance to be able to be successful even though in the national
market. Global competition has been transformed to disappearing
of competition in conventional production for small industry.
When looked generally, especially after 1999-2000 period, per capi-
ta value-added, per capita payment value-added have lowered,
employment capacity has reduced, a remarkable change has
not happened in technology level. Measurement problem still
bears importance. As for being able to produce original product
takes place at the beginning of all sectors’ objectives not only our
working area.
Memiş KÜTÜKÇÜ, Chairman of Konya Chamber of Indutry (Left)-
Hasan Kurşunel, Owner of the firm (Right)