Insight

Fatih Uysal, chairman
Fasteners is one of the sectors that has had an increasing trend in volumes every year in our country. Turkey is in the position of being the third biggest European manufacturer after Germany and Italy. The sector, which has the objective of becoming one of the two leading production countries through new investments, has approximately 200 manufacturing facilities.

Turkey exports to 180 countries; in particular to germany,france and the united kingdom. In our country there are over 100 manufacturing companies operating in the fastening sector. Exports, which were us$147 million in 2009, doubled within 5 years, and it is a huge success that it has reached us$309 million. The export target for 2023 is forecast at us$1 billion. The production increase in the turkish automotive industry during the last few years has had a positive impact on the sector. Thanks to the increasing production of passenger, commercial and heavy-duty vehicles, there is an excellent opportunity for companies manufacturing fastener components for the automotive sector like norm civata.

Furthermore, investments of global new oems in turkey will also create new opportunities for the sector. Thanks to the rise in the exchange rate, a young population, and the fact that raw material requirements are locally manufactured, there have been positive affects on turkey’s export market. The expanding export market in this sector (180 countries, with an annual growth rate of 4% – 4.5%), Achieved by turkey in the last years, means the market for the entire manufacturing sector is expanding with a development of all sectors requiring fasteners. Due to a reduction in the speed of turkey’s growth in 2016 the market has shown a corresponding decline. The sector is suffering from a high increase in overhead costs, a lack of qualified labour, high interest rates and has to overcome difficulties like lack of new industrial spaces and high land prices. The additional tax of 25% imposed on dies imported from abroad is a further factor having a negative impact on the sector in turkey. Compared to europe, the fact that r&d investments in turkey are almost non-existent prevents the development of the sector. In this sense, companies like the “technological driver” company norm group, which is able to provide integrated services and r&d innovation investments, are in an advantageous position. In the entire world, and specifically in europe, the manufacture of electric vehicles will accelerate.

Studies with the purpose of identifying weight reductions will also accelerate as r&d projects. Primarily, the problem of importing raw material, which is one of the most important problems of the fasteners sector, needs to be solved. Under the scope of the integrated service provided by norm group as a holder of geomet®, magni and dörken licenses, and with its high technological sorting machines based in turkey, it is in the position of being an attractive manufacturer. As well as quality manufacturing our geographic proximity to europe ensures a logistical advantage.

Çetin Civata
Mustafa Tecdelioğlu, chairman
The main advantage of Turkey is to be a manufacturer for almost all of the sectors that require fasteners, so the fastener sector can easily follow up changes and demands of all the other sectors.

Turkey is still one of the emerging markets for the fastener industry. There are lots of factories that are intending to grow with new investments in both equipment and human resources. Çetin Civata is showing continuous development for decades, so the fastener industry is also one of the industries that is still showing evolution. Our total capacity of 40,000 tonnes/year is serving local and export markets – manufactured and stored in our own four plants in Turkey.

The Turkish economy has a pretty strong resistance to political and social changes. Construction, automotive and white goods have become major sectors in Turkey, which require lots of fasteners. These ensure greater investment in the sector.

Turkish steel manufacturers are also focused on manufacturing raw material for the fastener sector in recent years, lowering the dependency on importing wire.
Çetin Civata is producing fasteners (bolts, screws, rivets, nuts, etc) starting from M3 to M27 by cold forming. Parts that require second operations can also be processed in our plant with eight CNC machines. In our range we have hexagon and socket head bolts. HV bolts, wheel bolts, chipboard screws, self-drilling screws and fasteners according to DIN, ISO, ASME and other international standards and customer drawings. As we have our own PLC controlled continuous electric and gas type heat treatment furnaces, we are able to carry out carbon nitration, quenching and tempering, so we can deliver in all grades starting from 4.6 to 12.9, including dephosphating. We can also carry out hydrogen embrittlement avoiding processes.

Çetin Civata also has its own electro zinc plating and zinc nickel plating plant but there are also other licensed companies that can apply zink flake, zinc iron, nickel, hot dip galvanise and other global applications.

The main strength of our company is that we do all processes in-house, which brings a big advantage of flexibility for the whole range. In our quality control department, which has been accredited by the automotive industry, we can carry out and certify almost all required tests according to ISO 898 and customer requirements. With our ISO 9001, TS 16949, EN 14399, EN 15048, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certificates we serve automotive, home appliances, furniture, construction and machinery sectors.

Especially for the automotive industry we can deliver the parts with 100% sorting and with VDA, PPAP documentation and IMDS entry. Product recall and liability insurance are also applicable.