WHO WE ARE
Kardemir Celik sanayi A.S.
Founded by Nevzat Karalp and his family and continuing to grow day by day, Kardemir added Izmir factories in 1997 to its production activities that started in Denizli in 1986 and continued to grow by increasing its production every year. Today, our company, which continues its success-oriented growth momentum without slowing down, is proud to announce the name of our country to 110 countries with more than 30 years of export experience and deliver Turkish iron and steel products to all over the world. It is an important industrial enterprise with its vision of contributing to the local economy and employment and its achievements with its more than 1250 dedicated employees and all its other stakeholders. Kardemir Çelik Sanayi A.Ş. carries out its production activities for export and domestic market with its 7 separate production facilities, including three profile factories and a factory that produces steel reinforcement bar and wire rod, as well as a steel mill that provides raw materials for all of these, an air separation facility and a carbon factory. continues.
The Steel Mill, Wire Rod and Rebar Production Facility; Air Separation Facility and a Carbon Production Facility that produce oxygen, nitrogen and argon are situated under the roof of Kardemir Steel Production Facility, equipped with advanced technologies on a closed area of 60 thousand m2 and an open area of185 thousand m2, which is located next to Izmir Aliaga Bicerova train station.
Kardemir Steel Mill, which started operating in 2022, produces steel billet with the FESCON system arc furnace and has a production capacity of 1,200,000 tons/year. Thanks to the 100-ton electric arc furnace with the FESCON system and the waste heat recycling system, energy savings of 15% to 30% are achieved in production. The Steel Mill, located in the Kardemir Steel Production Facility, is one of the production facilities with the latest technology in its field in Turkey. Steel billet which is produced in the steel mill provides raw materials to Kardemir’s Steel Profile factory and Steel Reinforcement Bar & Wire Rod factories. Kardemir has a total of 4 separate rolling factories producing from steel billet.
The Steel Wire Rod and Reinforcement Bar Production Facility, which started operating in 2023, has a production capacity of 600,000 tons/year. The entire process from production to packaging, in the facility which is one of the longest wire rod and rebar cooling lines in Turkey, is completely automated. It produces wire rod for sectors such as Construction Wire Drawing Facilities, Nail Manufacturers, Steel Mesh Producers, Electrode Manufacturers, Bolt Manufacturers, Chain Manufacturers, Bed Spring Manufacturers, Steel Rope Manufacturers, Rubber Wire Manufacturers, Armor Wire Manufacturers and Transmission Manufacturers, especially for the construction industry.
Kardemir produces steel profile in a total of 3 separate facilities: 1 Denizli Steel Profile Rolling Mill and 2 Steel Profile Rolling Mills in İzmir Aliağa. Profile facilities have a production capacity of 700,000 tons/year.
A variety of up to 10,000 items of product are produced in Kardemir Çelik Sanayi facilities. These products include steel billet, wire rod, reinforcement bar; they are divided into main groups as commercial and structural profiles.
Kardemir wind power plant Bozyaka RES, with a power of 19.7 MW and located in Izmir Aliağa, also owned by Kardemir Çelik Sanayi A.Ş, has an annual electricity production capacity of 55 million KW. The roof solar power plant, whose installation has been completed, has a power of 3.98 MW and will be put into operation by the end of the year.
More than 50% of its steel products are used in world markets through export. Kardemir’s steel export figure for 2023 has approached the level of USD 225,000.00. It ranks 10th in the Aegean Region in exports.
Kardemir Çelik Sanayi, which continues its production activities at international standards within its product range, ranks 121st among Turkey’s 1000 largest companies with its exports to more than 100 countries, according to 2023 data; It ranks 110th among Turkey’s top 500 industrial enterprises (Kardemir has been on the ISO 500 list for more than 10 years) and 10th among the 100 largest industrial enterprises of the Aegean Region. According to Denizli Chamber of Industry data, it is the 3rd largest enterprise in Denizli in 2023.
Kardemir’s turnover as of the end of the 6th month of 2024 is 9 Billion Turkish Lira, and its turnover target for the end of 2024 is 18-20 Billion Turkish Lira.
DENIZLI | IZMIR | IZMIR | IZMIR | |
STEEL PROFILE ROLLING MILL | STEEL PROFILE ROLLING MILL | STEEL MILL | WIRE ROD & REINFORCEMENT BAR ROLLING MILL | |
LOCATION | Hacı Eyüplü, Denizli | Aliağa, İzmir | Aliağa, İzmir | Aliağa, İzmir |
BUILT | 1986 | 1997 | 2022 | 2023 |
AREA | 12.000 m2 total area | 40.000 m2 covered + 25.000 m2 open area | 60.000 m2 covered + 185.000 m2 open area | 17.000 m2 total area |
NUMBER OF PRODUCTION LINES | 1 line | 2 lines | 1 line | 1 line |
FURNACE TYPE | Pusher Type Pre-Heating Furnace | Pusher Type Pre-Heating Furnace | Electric Arc Furnace | Walking Beam Furnace |
IZMIR | IZMIR | |||
AIR SEPARATION PLANT | CARBON PLANT | |||
LOCATION | Aliağa, İzmir | Aliağa, İzmir | ||
BUILT | 2022 | 2022 | ||
CAPACITY | 47.500.000 Nm3/year Gas Oxygen | 40.000 Tons / year | ||
26.000.000 Nm3/year Gas Nitrogen | ||||
1.380.000 Nm3/year Gas Argon | ||||
Production from Green Energy with a power of 23.68 Mw! (61.13 GWs (million hours) of production power produces enough power to illuminate 27,000 homes on average.
IZMIR | IZMIR | |||
WIND POWER PLANT | SOLAR POWER PLANT | |||
LOCATION | Aliağa, İzmir | Aliağa, İzmir | ||
BUILT | 2008 | 2024 | ||
POWER | 19.7 MW | 3.98 MW | ||
PRODUCTION | 55 (GWs) | 6,13 (GWs) |
