Türkiye

Cement

With three cement factories (Izmir, Edirne and Elazig) and an installed capacity of 4.8 million tons per year, Çimentaş is among the largest international cement players in Türkiye with a strong local presence, especially in the Aegean region where most of the capacity is concentrated, besides Marmara and Anatolia. The company is listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.

The plants are strategically located to cover the entire domestic market:

• Izmir (2.6 million tons capacity) on the Aegean Sea;
• Edirne (1.3 million tons capacity) in the Marmara region, close to Istanbul and the border with Greece and Bulgaria; 
• Elazig (0.9 million tons capacity), acquired in September 2006 in Central Anatolia.

Although most of Cimentas sales are directed towards the domestic market, its plants location near the sea and close to the border with other countries makes exports feasible both to neighboring countries and across the Mediterranean.

Ready-mixed concrete

The subsidiary Çimbeton, also listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange since 1977, is the main ready-mix concrete production company in the Aegean region, with 23 concrete plants located mainly in the western part of Türkiye and the Eastern Anatolia region.

Aggregates

In 2021, Cimentas entered the aggregate business by acquiring Ege Kirmatas, a company operating, among others, the Torbali quarry near Izmir, in an area which has more than 600 million tons of aggregates reserves. With this acquisition, Cimentas can produce around 2 million tons of aggregates per annum both for its own needs and for third parties.

Cimentas offers a wide range of aggregates, from products for the prefabricated industry, to those for asphalt and bitumen, concrete production, foundations, and finally specialized applications such as mixtures and fillers.

Waste

SSince 2009, with the aim of contributing to the circular economy and reducing the Group's environmental footprint, Çimentaş, through its sub-holding Recydia AS, has invested in waste and residues treatment in Türkiye, with the objective of producing recyclable materials and alternative fuels to be used in cement kilns as a substitute of fossil fuel.

Based in the Aegean region, Sureko is the subsidiary focused on industrial waste management. It provides onsite services to customers, as well as collection and treatment of industrial residues in Kula (Manisa) factory, where recyclable materials (PET, HDPE, PP, paper, glass, wood, metals) are sorted and Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) is produced.

Generating energy from renewable sources and progressively replacing fossil fuels with alternative fuels is one of the Group's strategic priorities.

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