CISDI made a highly successful visit to Turkey’s leading industrialists this summer.

Led by CEO Zhaohui Yu, the team strengthened relationships at OYAK, the largest mining and metallurgy group in Turkey. A further meeting at TOSYALI, the country's first and largest private steel investor, also proved highly fruitful.

CISDI has previously delivered three rebuilt hot stoves to OYAK’s subsidiary Isdemir in 2016 and one new hot stove to a second, Erdemir, in 2018, all on an EP basis.

At a meeting with Toker Ozcan, vice chairman and MD of the OYAK Group, and Salih Cem Oral, general manager of the Erdemir Steel Plant, CISDI highlighted its expertise in consulting and systematic optimisation.

“OYAK was highly impressed by CISDI’s competence as a global-oriented engineering company and technology and total solutions provider,” CISDI spokesperson.

TOSYALI agreed to explore with CISDI opportunities to develop Greenfield plants in Turkey and Phase IV projects at its plant in Algeria.

Headquartered in Hatay, İskenderun, its production facilities are based in Osmaniye, Istanbul, Izmir, Algeria and Serbia Montenegro, and the company is the driver of Algeria’s steel sector.

The CISDI team toured TOSYALI HQ’s EAF, CCM, HSM, welded pipe mill, CSM, CGL and CCL sites and Yu gave a detailed account of CISDI’s expertise in energy conservation and environmental protection to TOSYALI’s CEO, Suhat Korkmaz, and its project and investment director Mehmet Gezgin.

CISDI made the most of their time in Turkey, also paying visits to GLOMET, Mitsubishi Turkey and the commercial consul of China’s Consulate-General to Turkey.