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MACHINERY EXPORTERS UNION MONTHLY MAGAZINE

MACHINERY SECTOR IS PREPARING FOR HANNOVER MESSE

ISSUE: 129

MACHINERY SECTOR WILL FOCUS ON MARKET DIVERSITY IN THE NEW YEAR

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MACHINERY SECTOR WILL FOCUS ON MARKET DIVERSITY IN THE NEW YEAR TURKEY’S MACHINERY EXPORTS EXCEEDED 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS IN JANUARY. DRAWING ATTENTION THAT THE SECTOR SHOWED 12 TIMES HIGHER PERFORMANCE COMPARED TO JANUARY IN 2018, KUTLU KARAVELIOĞLU, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF MAİB SAID THAT: “THE MACHINERY SECTOR WHICH IS ONE OF THE INDUSTRIAL GROUPS WHICH INCREASED THE EXPORT MOSTLY IN 2018 MADE A REMARKABLE START, WHICH IS PARALLEL WITH THE EXPORT TARGET FOR 20 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH WE SPECIFIED FOR THIS YEAR.”

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achinery sector which increased the coverage ratio of import to the level of 64% thanks to the export for 17.1 billion dollars in the previous year realized an export above 1.3 billion dollars in January. Stating that they aim to increase the exporters’ access to the new markets while carrying out projects which will raise the brand power of the sector in the developed countries, Kutlu Karavelioğlu, the Chairman of the Executive Board of MAİB expressed that: “Turkish machinery industry is an alive sector which is demanded in developed countries’ markets thanks to its manufacture substructure suitable for advanced technology. Our activities continued without slowing down in January and Germany, USA, England, Italy and France have turned out to be the markets to which we carried out export mostly.”

Furthermore, underlying that the export increase rate exceeded 20s% in the countries like Algeria, Poland and Morocco, Karavelioğlu expressed that: “While meeting the machinery needs of our customers in all sub-branches of the industry, we aim to increase the market diversity of Turkish machinery sector.”

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“WE WILL NOT SLOW DOWN IN INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING PROJECTS.” Within this framework, MAİB which continues its international advertising projects without any break held a sectoral trade board organization to Leipzig-Germany between the dates of 5-8 February and participated in INTEC fair simultaneously.

Within the scope of trade board where 19 Turkish firm participated in, while Turkish and German firms carried out bilateral negotiations Turkish Machinery intensified their

contact with the establishments in Germany.

Stating that apart from the contacts with VEMAS, Fraunhofer Institute, IHK Chemnitz, they realized a board organization with intense program where facility and firm visits, Turkish-Saxony Cooperation Forum, event participations, bilateral business negotiations, firm and fair visits had roles, Karavelioğlu said that: “Telling the quality of our products, meeting the demands and needs of our customers at first hand

constitute the critical aspect of our brand projects. We tell the power of our sector to a large buyer groups in the organizations in which we participate. There were 31 countries together with Turkey in INTEC Leipzig; our advertising projects turned out to be an important opportunity for our sector in expanding into new markets.”

Stating that they are very pleased that the Trade Board which was organized within the scope of the fair was efficient and about the support and interest of the institutions with which they had cooperation in Germany towards the Turkish board, Karavelioğlu expressed that: “We feel obligated to show our power which we have in manufacture in the marketing field also in order to be strong in the international competition. We will realize another board for Germany and Düsseldorf this time in June. We will continue to meet with our responders from Germany in Turkey also. We will carry out board organization in Mexico, India, Russia and China in international advertising projects without slowing down. We are pleased about the contribution of our projects in the performance of our sector.”

IN KONYA AGRICULTURE FAIR

APPROXIMATELY 5000 BUSINESS PEOPLE FROM OVER 100 COUNTRIES WILL PARTICIPATE

KONYA AGRICULTURE FAIR WHERE THOUSANDS OF PROFESSIONALS ARE HOSTED IN EACH YEAR AND WHICH IS ORGANIZED WITH THE COOPERATION OF TÜYAP KONYA FAIR ORGANIZATIONS AND TARMAKBİR AND WHICH IS THE BIGGEST AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION OF TURKEY IN ITS FIELD WILL BE REALIZED ON 19-23 MARCH.

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onya Agriculture Fair which has had the status of being the biggest agriculture fair of Turkey and the third biggest agriculture fair of Europe for a long time will be organized on 19-23 March in this year with the cooperation of The Turkish Association of Agricultural Machinery & Equipment Manufacturers (TARMAKBİR) in TÜYAP Konya International Fair Center.

Konya Agriculture Fair where 427 firms and 1281 brands from 20 countries exhibited their products which they integrated with advanced technology at 96.000 sqm open and closed area totally hosted for 307.919 guests from 97 countries. İlhan Ersözlü, the General Director of TÜYAP Konya Fair Organizations says about Konya Agriculture Fair that: “Agricultural mechanization technologies which will be exhibited in the fair are of great importance in terms of pointing out the last spot where Turkey has reached now. We expect to create opportunity for business contracts which will be made in the fair have a positive effect on the increase

in the export numbers of Turkey by sharing these technologies with the business people who will participate from all over the world.”

Stating that they aim to bring Turkish manufacturers together with the new markets with the cooperation made with Konya Chamber of Commerce, Konya Chamber of Industry and Mevlana Development Agency with the aim of increasing the international participant number of Konya Agriculture Fair in this year, Ersözlü says that: “We will bring approximately 5 thousands of international investors from over 100 countries with this

enterprise together with local brands through one on one negotiations.”

MINISTRY SUPPORTS ARE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR AGRICULTURE 4.0 Underlying that the grant support which will be provided for “Agriculture Technologies and Mechanization” which is specified as the subject of top priority in R&D call of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry provides a unique opportunity for the fair participants, Ersözlü expressed that: “One of the remarkable points on which we have focused in the

fair with this development will be the application and development of the smart agriculture policies in Turkey.

We continue our projects on informative meeting series with the aim of enlightening our guests and participants in today’s world economy where Agriculture 4.0 come to forefront.”

Konya Agriculture Fair which will open its doors for the agriculture sector with the official opening on 19 March will be able to be visited until 23 March 2019 Saturday.

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OUR MACHINERY IS PREPARING FOR HANNOVER MESSE TURKISH MACHINERY HAS EYES ON THE HANNOVER MESSE FAIR WHICH WILL BE HELD ON 1-5 APRIL. IT HAS BEEN EXPECTED THAT 6.500 FIRMS FROM 75 COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY APPROXIMATELY 200 FROM TURKEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN AND MORE THAN 220 THOUSANDS OF GUESTS FROM 80 COUNTRIES WILL FOLLOW HANNOVER MESSE WHICH WILL BE REALIZED UNDER THE THEME OF INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE. TURKISH MACHINERY WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FAIR WITH THEIR STAND AND ADVERTISEMENTS.

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annover Messe, the leading platform of the world which touches upon the harmonization of the components of mechanical and electrical engineering with the digital technologies is preparing to host Turkish industrialists in Germany between the dates of 1 - 5 April. Hannover Messe where • 120

the leading suppliers of automation, robotics, industrial software, power transfer and fluid power technology, energy technologies, compressed air and vacuum technologies and subsidiary industry and R&D fields will be brought together will launch various innovations.

It will be organized under the theme of “Industrial

Intelligence” and with the participation of Sweden as a partner country.

Approximately 200 Turkish brands will take place in the Hannover Messe with the support of the Ministry of Commerce.

Within this scope Alexander Kühnel, the General Director of Hannover Messe Turkey, Therese Hydén, the Istanbul

Consul General of Sweden, Brock McCormack, the Press Agent of Deutsche Messe participated in the meeting held for the advertisement of Hannover Messe at the end of the January. Drawing attention that more than 100 concrete application examples related to machine learning will be exhibited in Hannover Messe, McCormack

assessed that: “Machine learning has a key role because the machine learning and artificial intelligence connects the information which they obtain from different resources. This transformation is exhibited in Hannover Messe all around the world in the best way.”

5G FOR THE INDUSTRY Drawing attention that the new 5G mobile communication standard will be the turning point of the German industry’s digitalization in a wide scale as of 2020, McCormack stated that: “Leading technologies like machine learning in manufacture and autonomous vehicles will be ready for application from this date.

5G technology will enable Industry 4.0 to realize its potential fully. “5G Arena” will exhibit the potential which the fifth generation of the mobile communication provides for the industry in Hannover Messe with Nokia, the network equipment supplier.”

Pointing out that the Industrial Intelligence theme means the connection between the humans and machines digitally in the artificial intelligence era, McCormack also stated that the conference with the title of “The Future of Labor Force in New Industry” which will be carried out within the scope of Hannover Messe will make a great contribution to this through these words: “Approximately 300 experts, opinion leaders and industry leaders will meet together in Hannover Messe to discuss the effects of digitalization on the skills and organization of labor force.

Philosopher and author David Precht, Janina Kugel, Responsible Siemens Human

Resources Officer and Ralf Neuhauser, the “Human Robot” will take their place among the participators of the fair.

in Industrial Leaders’ Summit and will open the subjects of what should be done for the future into discussion by developing a vision for 2025.

partners. Totally more than 200 firms in a 6-thousand-sqm area from Turkey will participate in Hannover Messe fair.

ENERGY SUBSTRUCTURE AND LIGHT DESIGN FOR TOMORROW’S MOBILITY Another subject which the fair has focused on this year will be the light design which will have a significant role in e-Mobility megatrend.

While the solutions which are provided by the companies which will exhibit their products in the fair create the necessary conditions for the success of the transformation in the mobility, another subject related to improving these light design products in terms of endurance, efficiency, design and energy consumption comes forefront. One of the most significant events within the scope of Hannover Messe fair will be the first Light Design Summit which will be carried out by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy.

On the other hand, looking into the future comprises the question of what is next after Industry 4.0. More than 500 experts on digitalization, artificial intelligence, human-machine cooperation and platform economy will meet

APPROXIMATELY 200 FIRMS WILL TAKE PLACE IN HANNOVER MESSE FROM TURKEY On the other hand, the Ministry of Commerce continues to support Turkish companies which are participating in Hannover Messe fair which is the most important industry meeting of the world. While the national participations of Hannover Messe Fair are organized in three different branches with the cooperation of Deutsche Messe by Istanbul Chamber of Trade, ITO aims to take place in the fair with more than 60 participants in the holes of subsidiary industry, energy and fluid technologies and bring Turkish firms together with the potential buyers through B2B events during the fair.

Turkish Machinery will take place in the fair in representation of Turkish firms with their stand and advertisements as it does in each year and will organize a cocktail event on 2 April to bring Turkish industrialists together with international

THE PARTNER COUNTRY OF THE FAIR IS SWEDEN The long-lasting tradition of increasing the creativity and industrial innovation of Sweden which is the partner country in this year’s meeting of Hannover Messe enabled the birth of multi-national companies such as ABB, SKF and Ericsson. While Swedish companies have been applying innovative solutions within the framework of state academy and industry cooperations for long years, Ericsson which has taken place in Turkey for approximately 130 years and have been in cooperation with more than 70 institutions and universities in Turkey opened the first TUBITAK supported research laboratory in informatics sector in Turkey, Ericsson Research Turkey Lab in December of the last year in Istanbul. On the other hand, Swedish companies such as Atlas Copco, ABB, SKF, Nederman, Arlight and Systemair HSK still continue to provide smart and energy efficient solutions to Turkish industry.

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THE FIRST DARK FACTORY OF TURKEY WILL BE CONSTRUCTED IN İSTANBUL! ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT FOR WIN EURASIA, THE LEADING INDUSTRIAL FAIR OF EURASIA. THE FIRST “DARK FACTORY” OF TURKEY WILL BE CONSTRUCTED IN WIN EURASIA WHICH WILL DO THE HONORS FOR PANELS, CONFERENCES AND FORUMS TO BRING LIGHT INTO THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY THANKS TO THE COOPERATION BETWEEN TÜSİAD, TİM AND ENOSAD; AND PARTICIPANTS AND GUESTS WILL BE ABLE TO WITNESS TO THE TECHNOLOGIES WHICH RESHAPE THE INDUSTRY.

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IN EURASIA, the leading manufacturing fair of Eurasia is getting ready to host thousands of participants and guests all over the world in Istanbul between the dates of 14-17 March.

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Whole ecosystem needed for the future’s factories from sheet metal processing and metal shaping technologies, automation services, electric and electronic equipment to hydraulics, pneumatics and in-facility logistics will meet with the guests in Istanbul

TÜYAP Fair and Exhibition Center.

The fair where the most innovative technologies will be seen with the slogan of “Be Part of the Future” will bring the participants and guests of Metalworking EURASIA, SurfaceTechnology EURASIA,

Welding EURASIA, IAMD EURASIA, IES EURASIA and CeMAT EURASIA under the same roof of Industry 4.0 concept.

Sectoral professionals who will visit the fair of WIN EURASIA which will bring together 360-degree

manufacturing industries under Industry 4.0 concept will have the opportunity to experience the technological advances closely such as automation, digitalization, Internet of Things, increased reality; and the Industry 4.0 Festival Field which will be established within the scope of fair will do the honors for Smart 4.0 Manufacturing Line with the first Industry 4.0 concept of Turkey. The first dark factory of Turkey which will be constructed in this field will be prepared by using manufacturing control and follow, data analysis, cloud technology, industries security, industrial Internet of Things, big data, digital automation and laminated manufacturing technology; and the participants and guests will be able to closely see the technologies reshaping the industry.

The innovations which the fair of which doors will be opened on 14-17 March will present were transmitted to the public in a meeting on 12 February and the fair of WIN EURASIA and the future vision of Turkish industry were discussed in the meeting held as a special session.

The event which was hosted by Alexander Kühnel, the General Director of Hannovar Fairs Turkey Fair Organizations and Belkıs Ertaşkın, the Deputy General Director was presided by Ebru Baki, the Economy Director of Habertürk TV; and Kutlu Karavelioğlu, the Chairman of the Executive Board of MAİB, Semih Kumbasar, the Chairman of the Executive Board of AKDER, Dr. Hüseyin Halıcı, the Chairman of Executive Board of ENOSAD, Mustafa Cemaloğlu, the Chairman of Executive Board of ETMD, Ender Akbaytogan, the Chairman of the Executive

Board of İSDER and Ahmet Özkayan, the Chairman of the Executive Board of MİB were participated as the speakers in the session.

AN INTERACTIVE FAIR EXPERIENCE Stating that a special experience area for Industry 4.0 will be created in the fair in this year and an interactive environment will be provided for the participants and guests with the special presentation areas, Belkıs Ertaşkın, the Deputy General Director of Hannover Fairs Turkey Fair Organizations said: “We will handle the future vision of the sector in WIN EURASIA together with the guests through the seminars where the leading experts in the Industry 4.0 will participate with the aim of making contributions to the creation of products of which added-value is high” and added that she believed that the conferences with the titles of “Digital Transformation in the Industry”, “Economics, Science, Future and You”, “Self Service Industry 4.0”, “The Integration of Information Technologies into the Industry: Industry 4.0”, “Digital Transformation in Manufacture”, “Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistic 4.0”, “Smart Manufacturing Technologies - Digital Factories”, “IoT Subconstructions in Factories and Artificial Intelligence” and “WIN Eurasia Digital Transformation Conversations” will be followed with great interest.

The competition of “WINOVATION” which will be realized within WIN EURASIA for the first time in this year with the cooperation of Hannover Fairs Turkey and ENOSAD is coming forefront as another one of the

various firsts of the fair. The projects which are technical-innovation oriented and with original designs will be awarded under the category titles of product, service, design, technology, technical sub-structure, solution, business model, organization and social environment, etc.

BUSINESS WORLD SUPPORTS THE FAIR WIN EURASI which was organized with the support of The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Technology and KOSGEB will be held with the cooperations of the leading institutions and establishments such as MAİB, MAKFED, İSDER, ENOSAD, AKDER and ETMD. Bilateral negotiations program will pave the way for new business networks in the fair where international delegations coming from various countries will be hosted within the framework of State-supported Procurement Committee Programs.

Providing information on the machinery sector of Turkey in the meeting, Kutlu Karavelioğlu, the Chairman of the Executive Board of MAİB drew attention that there has been a parallel relation between the power of the machinery sector and that of the countries and stated that the Turkey’s machines have a competitive structure through these words: “The countries exists in parallel with the power of the machinery sector. This is a worldwide fact. Machine is the most common item of the world. As Turkish Machinery, we mostly export the machines which consume energy at the minimum rate but provides efficiency at the maximum rate into EU and USA. We know that the fairs

have a strategical importance for the introduction of our machines and we believe that these fairs create opportunities to increase market diversity and establish new contacts.”

Expressing that Turkey manufactures good machines in terms of competitive price and performance, Ahmet Özkayan, the Chairman of the Executive Board of MİB stated that Turkey is a significant machinery exporter and there have been various important firms in Turkey through these words: “WIN EURASIA puts forward a perfect synergy. All stakeholders will exhibit their machines in the fair. These are smart machines, robots and the devices equipped with Industry 4.0.”

Stating that they are at the edge of the digital transformation era in the industry, Dr. Hüseyin Halıcı, the Chairman of the Executive Board of ENOSAD underlined that the machines can never take the place of humans and stated that the strongest difference between the human and machine is feelings so the machines can only operate in physical works and the first examples of this can be seen in the fair. While Semih Kumbasar, the Chairman of the Executive Board of AKDER pointed out that the fairs have importance for seeing where the Turkey’s and world’s machinery sectors are and what is their direction, Mustafa Cemaloğlu, the Chairman of the Executive Board of ETMD recorded that the most recent and secure applications of the energy systems giving life to all these machines will be exhibited in the fair; and Ender Akbaytogan, the Chairman of the Executive Board of İSDER emphasized that the export targets of machinery sector are highly comprehensive.

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EXPORT TARGET OF TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MACHINES MACHINES IS 1 BILLION DOLLARS TURKISH TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MACHINE MANUFACTURERS SET AN EXPORT TARGET FOR 1 BILLION DOLLARS IN THE EXPORT MARATHON WHICH THEY STARTED AT THE BEGINNINGS OF 1990s. TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MACHINES MANUFACTURERS WHO HAVE BEEN INCREASING THEIR GLOBAL COMPETITIVE CAPACITY IN QUALITY AND PRICE ALSO MAKE GREAT EFFORT TO BREAK THEIR IMPORT DEPENDENCE IN INNER MARKET. ACCORDING TO TUIK, SECTORAL MANUFACTURERS WHO CARRIED OUT EXPORT FOR 721 MILLION DOLLARS IN 2018 HAVE A BELIEF THAT THEY WILL BREAK THE IMPORT WHICH HAS REACHED TO 1,9 BILLION DOLLARS BY INCREASING THEIR ACTIVITIES IN THE INNER MARKET.

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extile sector is considered to be one of the locomotive sectors of Turkish industry and our economy.

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of country export and which has an effect on the future and development of textile sector is the manufacture of textile and clothings machines.

It is possible to define textile

and clothing machines as the ones by which the manufacture of clothing and house textiles which are the needs of humanity are carried out. Thread takes place in the foundation, at

the bottom of the textile.

Therefore, it can be said that the first sub-sector of textile and clothing machines is the thread machines. While the weaving and sewing stages where the thread is

transformed into the texture are other significant sub-sector of textile and clothing machines, felting machines which are called as nonwoven and where non-woven fabrics are produced can be considered within this scope.

Consequently, machines which carry out the activities of dying, chemical finishing and finishing are getting on the stage. Clothing machines are the ones which reach the trimmed textiles to clothing or house textile, in other words, into the final products. We call all of them as textile and clothing machines.

Familiarity of Turks with textile dates back to the period when they used to live in Central Asia. Textile products manufactured from felt which were found in the excavations in the Turkish settlement which dates back to BC 2nd century at Altay Mountains. Familiarity of humanity with textile is considered to date back to the period before agriculture culture, to the hunter-collector periods. While protecting clothes and shoes were produced by using the threads from the animal features in this period, there were trade activities of textile products in Sumerian period following the domestication of the animals can be understood from the records on stone tablets.

MECHANIZATION BEGAN IN OTTOMAN PERIOD Textile has maintained its existence without experiencing a great breakthrough as a labor-intensive sector throughout the years.

Furthermore, the fact that the Industrial Revolution accelerated the production and mechanization firstly found an application area for itself in textile sector caused textile and clothing machines

to be born and promptly find an improvement area for themselves. We see that textile machines were improved in terms of efficiency thanks to steam firstly and then electric machines while mechanism in textile were experienced in Anatolia in 1800s in the period of Ottoman Empire. While the production of silk which was the need of both the palace and the house textile was carried out in Hereke, cotton mill established in Bakırköy and the Feshane, the wool fabric mill established in 1812 in Eyüp can be pointed out as the first textile production centers in the Ottoman Period.

When it comes to the period of Turkish Republic, all those acquisitions were protected and brought together under the roof of Sümerbank.

While important investments were made until the Second World War, the fact that the integrated textile factories which were established had the capacity to meet their own needs are considered to be important. Within this scope it can be said that there were a textile and

clothing machines sector which became self-sufficient in the period before 1950.

In the same period, we can see the first private sector investments in textile and clothing machines; however, the imported machine dependence which started in the establishment of textile factories can be seen as the first steps of the import experienced today. We should remember that fast-developed machine industry of West countries has an important pressure effect on the developing countries like Turkey and thus has pressure on the development of local industry in that period.

THE SECTOR UNDERWENT A CHANGE IN 1980 Turkish textile and clothing machines sector which was obstructed by the developed countries in a sense was able to realize the production of shuttle-less looms, thread looms in 1980s. We see that Mechanical and Chemical Industry started to realize the production of thread looms with an Italian firm and weaving looms with a German firm in Turkey while

a copy of weaving looms of a French firm was produced in the private sector. Doyens of the sector qualify that being left behind of the Turks who wrote the standards of the textile production with the document named as “Kannunname-i İhtisab-ı Bursa” published by the Sultan II. Bayezid Han in an early time as 1502 in technical and commercial terms in the production of textile and clothing machines is very sad and thought-awakening.

WE CARRY OUT EXPORT INTO 200 COUNTRIES Textile sector has a very wide range. It involves numerous products varying from compression bandages used to wrap our wounds, towels used to dry our faces, the carpet we lay on the floor to cord fabric in automobile tires and special cables used in electronics. We can try to understand the extent of the manufacture machines of this sector of which product range is this much comprehensive and its availability for the new developments by taking into consideration the sub-headings such as raw 125 • FEBRUARY 2019

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material, semi-finished products and finished product processes. As Turkey, even if we don’t state that we are highly assertive in the whole field which is this much comprehensive, it possible to say that Turkey has shown a fast development when it comes to textile and clothing machines in the world.

Within this framework there is developed and big textile and clothing machine park in Turkey which can produce each type of thread, fabric, clothing goods, house textile products and readymade textile garments in various sub-branches of textile industry. While local manufacturers have especially created competition in international markets in the machine categories such as atmospheric jet or jet dyeing machines, manufacturers of textile and clothing machines in Turkey have been focused on Istanbul and Izmir in generally KOBİ scale.

The sector which applies innovative technologies and attaches great importance in design-developing carried out production for inner market until 1990s, we can say that we are at the position where we carry out export into 200 different countries today with the export attack • 126

started since that period.

According to the data of Textile Machinery and Accessories Association (TEMSAD), Turkish textile and clothing machinery sector which carried out export for 721 million dollars in 2018 caught a growth for 24% compared to 2017.

The import of textile and clothing machinery sector in 2018 which provides the most export flow within the sub-groups of all machinery sector in each year and maintains its rank as the second or third one was realized as 1.9 billion dollars. While 80% of the textile and clothing machinery export for 721 million dollars consist of dyeing-finishing machines; export for dyeing-finishing machine has importance because it is 2.5 times bigger than the import. The most significant items in textile and clothing machines brought into Turkey via import are weaving, thread and knitting machines. Total export of these three machine types are for around 1 billion dollars annually.

WE SELL TO ENGLAND, BUY FROM GERMANY When detailed export and import numbers are reviewed specifically to Turkey,

according to TÜİK’s 2018 data, we can say that we are carrying out export mostly with England and import mostly with Germany.

When the sectoral export of Turkey is reviewed according to the countries according to the TÜİK data, Turkey carried out export for 721 million dollars with increase by 19.2% in 2018 and England has taken its lace at the first rank in the list of top 10 counties which we carried out the most export for 90 million dollars with increase by 16.7%. While Uzbekistan is following this country with export for 53 million dollars with increase by 53.8%; Germany which is in the third rank at the list carried out export for 52 million dollars with increase by 9.5%. Other countries which have taken place within the top 10 counties in Turkey’s sectoral export are Italy, France, Bangladesh, India, Egypt, South Korea and Czech.

And also according to the data which was announced

by TÜİK, sectoral import of Turkey in 2018 increased by 31%. In this period only the import for 506 million dollars from Germany draws attention because it exceeds the two out of three of sectoral export on its own. Within

this scope, according to TÜİK data, we can say that while import was carried out for 506 million dollars with increase by 15% from Germany which is at the first rank in the list of top 10 countries which Turkey mostly carried out import, import was carried out for 293 million dollars with increase by 65% from China which is at the second rank and another import for 264 million dollars with increase by 11.5% from Italy which is at the third rank in the list. The total textile and clothing machinery import which Turkey carried out in this period exceeded 1.9 billion dollars.

In other words, we carried out import approximately for three units in return of an export for 1 unit like we did in other various sectors.

WE HAVE OUTPUT GAP IN THREAD AND WEAVING MACHINERIES On the other hand, the sector in Turkey is in a highly advanced position in terms of dyeing-finishing machineries. The fact that export’s coverage ratio of import is above 200% points out that our textile dyeing and finishing machines have become a world brand now.

Furthermore, while Turkish textile and clothing machinery manufacturers can establish turn-key factories, they compete with world brands in terms of quality and price; and they secure their positions in the world brand in this field year by year.

Likewise, export’s coverage ratio of import in thread and weaving machines which has the biggest import rate is around 8%. This figure points out that there is a great gap in this field; however; it can be said that these machines will make great contributions to the sector by supporting the production in Turkey.

EXPORT FIGURES IN RESPECT TO THE ACTIVITY FIELD OF THE MACHINERY AND ACCESSORIES (JANUARY 1 - 31, 2018 AND 2019) 2018 QUANTITY (1000 TONNES)

VALUE (MIL $)

ENGINES, ACCESSORIES AND SPARE PARTS

12,6

INDUSTRIAL AIR CONDITIONERS AND COOLING MACHINES

2019

Kaynak: All Exporter Unions Database CHANGE (%)

$/KG

QUANTITY (1000 TONNES)

VALUE (MIL $)

$/KG

QUANTITY

VALUE

209,5

16,6

12,6

178,2

14,1

0,4

-15,0

30,0

140,5

4,7

33,0

155,3

4,7

9,8

10,5

OTHER INDUSTRIAL WASHING AND DRYING MACHINES

32,1

97,8

3,0

37,3

112,5

3,0

16,4

15,0

CONSTRUCTION AND MINING MACHINES

21,1

78,0

3,7

34,1

103,8

3,0

61,5

33,0

PUMPS AND COMPRESSORS

9,0

69,5

7,8

10,4

77,0

7,4

15,8

10,9

WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION FOR THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY

1,1

19,9

17,4

1,7

71,8

41,1

52,4

260,0

AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY MACHINES

9,5

41,7

4,4

16,3

68,7

4,2

71,6

64,7

MACHINE TOOLS

8,4

61,9

7,4

9,3

67,5

7,2

11,2

9,0

TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MACHINES AND ACCESSORIES

8,8

53,9

6,1

11,1

58,9

5,3

26,3

9,4

TURBIN, TURBOJETS, TURBO PROPELLERS

1,4

30,7

22,6

2,0

55,3

28,1

44,8

80,0

VALVES

4,2

39,9

9,5

5,1

46,7

9,2

20,1

17,1

FOOD INDUSTRY MACHINES, ACCESSORIES AND SPARE PARTS

6,5

37,2

5,7

7,3

40,3

5,5

13,1

8,3

REACTORS AND BOILERS

4,8

48,6

10,0

3,6

36,4

10,2

-26,1

-25,0

LOAD LIFTING, CARRYING AND STOWING MACHINES

5,6

23,9

4,3

7,8

31,2

4,0

40,1

30,7

ROLLER AND FOUNDRY MACHINES, MOULDS

3,9

35,1

8,9

4,1

28,9

7,0

4,9

-17,6

INDUSTRIAL HEATERS AND COOKERS

3,4

24,4

7,2

4,2

25,7

6,1

25,1

5,7

GUM, PLASTIC, RUBBER PROCESSING MACHINES

1,7

14,5

8,5

1,5

12,8

8,8

-13,7

-11,5

OFFICE MACHINES

0,3

12,5

40,1

0,5

12,3

23,3

70,2

-1,2

PACKAGING MACHINES, ACCESSORIES AND SPARE PARTS

0,8

13,1

16,1

0,7

12,2

17,5

-13,8

-6,4

BEARINGS

1,0

12,7

12,4

0,8

9,9

11,9

-19,2

-22,2

PAPER MANUFACTURING AND TYPOGRAPHY MACHINES

0,9

6,2

6,9

1,0

6,4

6,1

16,8

2,7

LEATHER PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING MACHINES AND ACCESSORIES

0,3

1,6

6,0

0,2

1,5

7,4

-23,9

-6,2

16,4

111,8

6,8

18,2

112,1

6,2

10,7

0,3

183,9

1.184,7

6,4

223,1

1.325,4

5,9

21,3

11,9

PRODUCT GROUP

OTHER MACHINES TOTAL

127 • FEBRUARY 2019