Insight

A review and preview of the global fastener market

Named after the Roman god who is often depicted as having two faces – due to its ability to look to the future and to the past – the Janus Perspective is a unique feature that includes a wide cross section of global fastener business leaders, who have all contributed their retrospective of 2021 and thoughts on prospects and challenges for 2022.

Cenk Turfanda, general manager

Throughout 2021 the Çetin Cıvata Group of Companies has been continuing its investment programme, with the total consolidated value expected to reach approximately €20 million by the middle of 2022.

This investment programme includes the enlargement of its machine park for multi-stroke cold formers and nut formers, as well as increasing the capacity of its heat treatment lines, with a new continuous heat treatment furnace going operational in Quarter 1 of 2022. It also includes two newly opened factory buildings and a modernised administration building at the group’s main Çetin Cıvata factory in Istanbul, Turkey. In terms of machinery and equipment investments, in addition to the cold forming and heat treatment departments, the logistic department was also furnished with a new integrated packaging line in Q4 of 2021 and the Group’s main surface coating plant has been equipped with a new zinc nickel line – obtaining a multinational brand’s licence.

After all this investment, with the aim of increasing the capacity of the Group, Çetin Cıvata – and the affiliated two cold forming factories – will reach a monthly capacity of 7,000 metric tonnes and an annual capacity of 80,000 metric tonnes of cold formed fasteners. The Group’s monthly surface coating capacity will reach 5,000 tonnes in the same period.

Combined, the Çetin Cıvata Group of Companies has a full production set-up, enabling it to produce a wide range of products – including bolts from M3 to M27, nuts from M6 to M22 and a wide range of screws, in various qualities and coatings. The factory is IATF 16949 certified and we also give great importance to sustainability in all production processes, as well as conformity to global decarbonisation – zero CO2 emission – and zero waste management goals. Our Group of Companies has already made progress in 2021 in phasing out fossil-fuel-based productions with one of our cold forming companies, Tekno Baglantı, already obtaining a zero waste certification. The Group management’s project team has also started to develop the project of applying solar power for the energy needs of our cold forming facilities.

This increased power of machinery, and growing capacity, are continuously supported by creating additional highly qualified employees and gaining highly qualified technical staff, who have been trained in the ‘Çetin Academy’ – the technical education department established in Çetin Cıvata’s main factory at the beginning of 2021. Alongside its investments, the Çetin Cıvata Group of Companies is also developing projects focused on a Customer Oriented Sales Process and After Sales Service Organisation.

These projects have been supported in 2021 by further using our ERP system’s CRM modules and will continue to develop through our new Customer Satisfaction Helpdesk and department. This will help us reach ‘perfection’ in our customer-oriented services, which we provide to all of our domestic and global clients. Çetin Cıvata has worked with several automotive FSP companies, automotive OEMs, tier 1 factories, as well as white goods producers, on a serial and ‘Just In Time’ basis for many years.

With reference to our marketing and sales activities, we have to mention that Çetin Cıvata’s sales office in Germany – recently celebrating its 3^rd year in service at the end of 2021 – is becoming more important and effective in securing clear and direct communication with our active and emerging client portfolio in Germany and in the western EU countries. We have also established a distribution and marketing organisation in Chicago, USA, and we will speed up our steps to enter the US market within 2022.

We believe that the Çetin Cıvata Group of Companies will increase its capacity and market share significantly in the Turkish fastener industry throughout 2022 and will be a shining star in the Turkish fastener industry’s global role when it comes to the international fastener supply chain.