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The past few years have been busy ones for Dalgakiran Kompresör as it consolidates its position as the leading Turkish manufacturer of com pressors. The opening of a new factory in 2020, located in the town of Dilovası in Kocaeli Province, had a huge impact on Dalgakiran Kompresör’s capabilities and lays the foundations for future growth.
“We are now using the highest technolo gies in our new 50,000 sqm production facility,” Export Sales Manager Ercan Asmaz explained. “I am proud to say that it is one of the biggest industrial air com pressor factories in Europe. Thanks to our capacity increase, we are now serving our customers in a faster way.”
Dalgakiran Kompresör was established in 1965 and steadily expanded. In 2004, Hertz Kompressoren was founded in Germany with the aim of manufacturing air compressors with a high level of German engineering. Another successful partner ship for Dalgakiran Kompresör is with th e Japanese company IHI, a comprehensive heavy-industry manufacturer who enjoys an 80% market share in Japan’s turbo com pressors. This joint venture was begun in 2016 and means that today IHI-Dalgakiran has hundreds of turbo compressors run ning in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Another recent development at Dalgakiran Kompresör was the appointment of Steven
Young as the new CEO in 2021. Mr Young spent 25 successful years within Bosch Group, most recently as President of Bosch Turkey and Bosch Middle East.
Mr Young now supervises the operation of Dalgakiran Kompresör’s new advanced production facility with 500 employees. This site produces all of the company’s industrial air compressors, with the cen trifugal compressors manufactured in Dalgakiran Kompresör’s second factory operated in partnership with IHI.
“Currently, we export more than 70% of what we produce,” said Mr Asmaz, “and ship to more than 130 countries. With the opening of our new plant, Dalgakiran Kompresör now has the capacity to produce 20,000 screw compressors. That means a new screw compressor is coming off the production line every 10 minutes. To accommodate this productivity, we are constantly increasing the number of our distributors globally.”
Expanding product range
The Dalgakiran Kompresör catalogue includes three types of compressors. The assorted screw type compressors include the Inversys series offering up to 35% energy-saving operation and the robust DVK series, a proven design with tens of thousands of units in the field. The com pany’s reciprocating compressors
are available with single-, double- and three-stage piston block options. Finally, Dalgakiran Kompresör offer a variety of turbo compressors, manufactured under the IHI-Dalgakiran badge.
Diversification of the Dalgakiran Kompresör product line comes from the supplemental equipment produced by the company. These items include a range of compressed air dryers, pressurized air filters and air receivers.
However, Mr Asmaz was eager to high light the latest additions to the Dalgakiran Kompresör range: “We have two new lines, one of them is the Class-0 oil-free scroll compressors. With this addition, Dalgakiran Kompresör now has four different series of oil-free compressors in our production range. These units are the IHI-Dalgakiran turbo compressor, the Eagle oil-free double stage screw compressors, the Pet Master 40 bar, oil-free reciprocating compressors for the PET industry and our scroll compressors.
“The other new line is our new Impetus series double stage, oil injected screw com pressors . When developing these units, we focused on achieving high-efficiency and low noise. These 90-315 kW compressors have the best-in-class efficiency, enabling our customers to find products with lowest total cost-of-ownership in the market.”
Compressor R&D
The recent launches from Dalgakiran Kompresör have been developed with an eye on the client’s energy savings and environmental sustainability.
“Energy efficiency is the most prioritised target in all of our recent series develop ments,” explained Mr Asmaz. “In order to reduce the carbon footprints of our customers, we work hard to decrease the specific energy consumption values on all of our compressors.”
Sustainable operation is not limited to only the new releases at Dalgakiran Kompresör, according to Mr Asmaz: “Our Technology and Innovation Department continues to make improvements on the current product lines and studies how to develop new high-efficiency series of compressors. Additionally, an 18-75 kW Impetus line is planned to be released in the beginning of next year.”
Dalgakiran Kompresör’s Technology and Innovation Department is the first compressor R&D centre in Turkey. This department drives the development of compressors and helps the company pro duce tailor-mode products according to the exact needs of its customers. To maintain high production levels, the company works closely with suppliers and partners.
Having Dalgakiran and Hertz compressors operating in more than 130 countries makes me very proud
“With the recent global supply chain crisis, everyone better understood the value of the suppliers,” Mr Asmaz said. “We need a perfect supply chain to meet the require ments of our customers in a short time.
At Dalgakiran Kompresör, we always work with yearly forecasts for our suppliers. By analysing and monitoring both sales and production, we can foresee demand and act quickly to prevent delays.”
Business returns
The Covid-19 pandemic impacted the machinery industry in unexpected ways, but those companies that survived are stronger for the experience. The pandemic underlined the importance of investing in both new technologies and the workforce. Companies such as Dalgakiran Kompresör who hold substantial stocks of components have avoided the worst of the global supply chain crisis.
A nother result of the global pandemic was the cancellation of so many trade fairs. As restrictions relax around the
world, Dalgakiran Kompresör is excited to once more attend events and connect inperson with its international partners. The company’s 2022 schedule includes SMM and Automechanika in Germany, Gulfood Manufacturing in Dubai and Propack West in Nigeria, while attendance at Comvac is already booked for 2023.
Alongside these trade show plans, Dalgakiran Kompresör has a clear strategy for the future. The company is targeting $1 billion revenue and 5,000 employees by the year 2030.
“Having Dalgakiran and Hertz compres sors operating in more than 130 countries makes me very proud,” concluded Mr Asmaz. “It is truly a pleasure to see our machines being used by manufacturers operating in hundreds of different fields.
“Although the competition is getting harder, Dalgakiran Kompresör tries to stay ahead with our best quality-ratio products, different product series for every customer profile, plus our agility and flexibility in the field of customer relations.” n
