We continue to visit companies that invest in technology

We continue to visit companies that invest in technology. Especially Gebze has an important place in Turkey as a production center in this regard. Machinery manufacturing and machinery manufacturing factories established out of the way of Turkey. We visited Keramik Makina, where production machines and robots are manufactured. We talked with Cem Büyükçıngıl, Chairman of the Board of Keramik, how machines become smart.

Founded in 1985, machine is entering a sector producing special machines not manufactured in Turkey. Producing machinery for the ceramic and brick industry, which started to grow and develop in the 1980s, Keramik Makina has many firsts. 1987yıl Turkey’s first jet-pulse-type dedusting machine that produces pottery, in 1988, Turkey’s first semi-automatic Shrink Machine which, in 1994 gives Turkey the first flat ceiling brick tunnel kiln production in the country.

Cem Büyükçıngıl, the second generation representative of Keramik Makina, who studied higher education in the United States, worked both as an internship and as a professional in a machine manufacturing company specialized in its subject for 1.5 years in Germany after returning from the USA in 1996. In 1998 he returned to Turkey in pottery machine starts to work.

Moving rapidly towards a global brand in the packaging and packaging industry

With the joining of Cem Büyükçıngıl to the management, the variety of the machines that Keramik Makina did not design but produced begins to increase and it begins to develop rapidly with a more technological and a strategy that will appeal to many sectors. Although machines for the ceramic and brick industry continue to be made, packaging and packaging machines are the target as the main product group. On the one hand, a new structuring is made in the company in order to specialize in this field. With expert engineering and design team is to design and manufacture the first of Turkey. In 2000, Turkey’s first fully automatic nylon-clad shrink machine ‘Shrinkmast’ and two years later the world’s largest German companies together with Turkey’s first fully automatic strapping / strip throwing machine the ‘strapmast’s gives Turkey.

Cen Büyükçıngıl, who implemented the “Rebirth” project in 2001, said, “All business processes, short, medium and long term goals and strategies of the company were redefined by taking professional management consultancy, which was determined as the focus of the whole company and the main sector as packaging and packaging. The ERP software project in line with the company’s business processes was initiated. scope Packaging industry specialization strategy in the world in 2008, the largest robot manufacturer making authority entegratörlük agreement with Japanese Fanuc Robotics first high capacity in Turkey bag stacking system and Turkey’s first high-capacity mechanical palletizing machines we have created Pallett is the master, “he says.

We see that the sectors served are increasing. Called end-of-line packaging and palletizing; It is designed and manufactured as a turnkey solution for the machines of all processes, including grouping, boxing, labeling, stacking on pallets, automatic strapping for load and shipment security, shrinking, stretching and automatic storage of all types of products independent of the sector. Turn-key strapping and stretch lines for the ceramic, chipboard and MDF sector, fully automatic stacking of 1300 mm x 3,600 mm sheets up to 3,000 mm height, palletless strapping and stretch-wrapping lines, food, mineral oil, cleaning products and the chemical industry can be supplied with cans, bottles and produces palletless palletizing and packaging lines for the cement and gypsum industry with box stacking, labeling and stretch / stretchood lines

Cem Büyükçıngıl said, “We export 56 percent of its production. We are doing this to Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and France. We aim to rapidly increase the value and market share of the brand in the world market, especially in Europe. “The success we have achieved in Europe has been achieved thanks to the exported high-tech palletizing and packaging lines, periodic R&D activities, Industry 4.0-based software, high performance, maximum efficiency, high kpi”.

Qualified to become an R&D center in 2019

In the technopark in Gebze Organized Industrial Zone, embedded software, algorithmic software, motion control and virtualization studies are continuing. Büyükçıngıl “R & D expenditure in Turkey, we are one of the highest 250 company. Our new generation XL stretch machine, which we have developed within the scope of R & D, is in serious demand both at home and abroad, and we are proud to be the fourth company in the world to produce this machine. In Gebze Güzeller Organized Industrial Zone, with 52% expert engineer staff, design, production, electricity, automation, sales, assembly, planning, quality, IT, human resources, commissioning and service processes are all “In house” with its own personnel. He adds that we have been doing it successfully for 35 years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it spends sustainably, without stopping its production, by operating its white-collar departments remotely.

Machinery and technology are exported to 30 countries

This success of Keramik Makina attracted the attention of the Minister of Industry and Technology, Mustafa Varank. The minister, who attaches importance to the digitalization of production, was shown smart machines that are 100% powered by Turkish engineers and designers. The production of the world’s first artificial intelligence-based truck loading system also deserves praise. In Keramik Makina, investments are made in both machinery, technology and people. Cem Büyükçıngıl “I believe that the demand for palletizing machines and systems will increase in 2021, both from Turkey and abroad. During the pandemic, companies need to minimize the manual operations of their production facilities for sustainability. This situation is of great importance in terms of employee health and product hygiene. “If the palletizing and packaging system does not work in an automated and efficient manner, or if it is not available, especially at the weekend, no matter how large your production capacity is, the speed and capacity of your packaging and palletizing barges at the end of your line will determine the quantity of the product you will produce.”