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OTR tyres, second hand machinery and a technical service package. We have expertise in manufacturing 12, 16, 20 & 24 tyre autoclaves and OTR chamber in difference sizes. The company offers an annual maintenance package of two free service inside Turkey and one overseas. In the parts exchange system, Recap buys the old machinery and offers new by adjusting the difference. “Our objective is to offer the best price, best solutions and best service under the Triple Business Model,” stressed Ileri.
Apart from focusing on the
domestic market, Recap Makina is also trying to get into the international market specifically to countries bordering Turkey initially. “We are keen to expand into Eastern Europe and the Middle East and once we settle down much further to the US market,” Ileri confided.
Recap Makina has already received enquiries from Eastern Europe, Middle East and Central Asia and some of these are expected to be converted into orders. “We hope to make it into the Iranian market by the end of this year,” he added.
process. The plant is installed with two locally branded autoclaves of 24 and 14 tyres respectively with equipment sourced from both Goodyear and Matteuzzi. It has a CNC buffer, an NDT spreader and tyre building machines from Matteuzzi. The plant consumes around 20 tonnes of tread rubber each month.
KOP-PLAS was founded in 1989 as
a Goodyear tyre dealer in Sultanbeyli (a suburb of Istanbul), and is a co-operation between the
K araoğlu and Kesiciler families. It has seven new tyre distribution centres, sells around 120,000 PCR and TBR annually, and controls 25 per cent of the local TBR and 15 per cent of the PCR market in Istanbul. The company also sells around 500 OTR tyres annually.
KOP-LAS to Move to
Own Location in Next Year
Rekor Kauçuk: €55m Eskisehir Plant Fully Operational by End October
With the penetration of the retreading industry still low in Turkey compared to other countries in Europe, Turkish retreading companies are expanding their operations to tap the potential in the domestic market.
“We have a strategic plan to relocate the existing factory to a new location. We are planning to move out from the current rented premises to our own unit and would obviously expand operation by hiking capacity at the new plant there,” explained Murat Şen, Retread Factory Manager at Goodyear Authorised Retreader, KOP-LAS Lastik Kaplama.
On the reasons for expanding the plant, originally established in 2015, he observed; “Retread market
share compared to new tyres is low in Turkey at 25 per cent compared to almost 50 per cent in Europe, therefore the potential to increase the business is almost 100 per cent. The new plant is likely to be operational in the next year and will include a doubling of the production from the current 1,000 tyres to 2,000 tyres per month.
The company aims to achieve its plan to increase production by expanding the product range including the addition of an OTR retreading capability. Currently, the Goodyear franchisee retreads TBRs tyres only. Goodyear has 11 franchisees in Turkey.
Opened on the Asian side of Istanbul, KOP-PLAS retreads 1,000 tyres each month by the precure
Turkish tread rubber manufacturer Rekor Kauçuk has announced that it has completed its planned move to its new state-of-the-art facility in Eskişehir, about half way between
October,” he added.
Rekor’s main reasons for relocating to Eskişehir were increasing space constraints and the rising congestion in the Turkish capital.
Murat Şen, Retread Factory Manager, KOP-LAS Lastik Kaplama.
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Istanbul and Ankara. According to General Manager Selahattin Algan, Rekor wound up its operations in Istanbul at the end of August and completely relocated to Eskişehir during the first week of September. “We have invested around €55 million in the Eskişehir facility,” said Algan during an exclusive interview with Retreading Business at the new factory. “The plant is now functional and is likely to be fully operational by the end of
“With housing complexes moving in closer, it was becoming difficult to carry out industrial activity in Istanbul, therefore, our growing commitments forced us to relocate,” explained Algan.
The new plant, regarded as a showpiece project within Turkey, is spread over an area of 75,000 sq m area with the production facilities alone covering 35,000 sq m, almost four times the size of the Istanbul plant. Mixing capacity has also been