Tureks Turunc Madencilik Ic Ve Dis Ticaret A.S (Turkiye)

The company s main activity is marble tiles, mosaics, waterjet tiles, borders, etc., as a result of cutting, shaping and surface treatments of natural stone following its extraction from marble quarries. producing and selling products
The company among the leading natural stone companies that produce slabs, tiles, mosaics, decorative and project sizes. With its story that started in Afyon in 1982, Marble Systems, which exports specially designed processed natural stone and marble to more than 50 countries on 5 continents, is spreading all over the world with its wide export range and company in the USA. Marble Systems has nearly a thousand dealers, 7 warehouses and 12 showrooms in the USA.
The Company, which has a wide range of showrooms in America, attracts the attention of famous people as well as large institutions with its products and projects. Working with valuable architects and designers, the brand has special projects ranging from America to Europe. The Mark Hotel in New York, Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center in Kuwait, El Conquistador Resort in Puerto Rico, and Toronto Scotia Bank Project are among these.
Reaching an annual production volume of 100 thousand tons with investments in natural stone production and quarrying, Marble Systems is known as the brand that created the travertine trend in the world. It leads the industry by including travertine in interior use and by bringing natural resources such as marble and travertine to wider usage areas with its patented different surface treatments.
The Company, which is considered among the strongest brands in the field of design, continues to develop innovative and creative designs that showcase the unique beauty and durability of natural stones.
Sustainability is an important value for Company. While we care about protecting natural resources and minimizing environmental impacts, The company support fair trade and ethical practices. Conducting our mining activities in a sustainable manner is among our priorities to fulfill our social and environmental responsibilities in the natural stone industry.
The seeds of The Company were planted in 1982, after completing his education in America, with the cooperation of a son who was trying to enter into business abroad and a father who was the dealer of the most important corporate companies in Turkey under the conditions of that day, which he took over from his grandfather.
It all started with The company choosing marble in the house he built for his family. It started with the principle that natural stone and marble are such a great value for our country, but they are not given the value they deserve , which he saw during the construction period.
According to the research carried out on both sides in 1982-83, under the conditions of that day, only thick semi-finished raw plate was manufactured in Turkey. In America, it is concluded that marble is used and sought after in luxury constructions, but 90 of the purchase is made from Italy. The answers received by the son, who conducted market research with the hand samples he sent upon his father s insistence on the subject; The materials are good, but they need to be produced according to Italian norms. It was like.
In a situation where normally one should give up, The company , on the contrary, starts with the bold move of Then let s take the blocks to Italy, process them and send them and export the blocks shipped to Italy to America by subcontracting them according to Italian norms. This material of Turkey, which was mostly used in graves at that time, was on its way to finding the place it deserved.
The journey continued in the same way between 1984 and 1986, when The company installed his first ST (marble block rubble sizing) machine, which he had manufactured in order to send half-cut slabs instead of blocks, in an area behind the gas station he was a dealer in, due to the lack of organized industry in those conditions. Another important step has been taken in the journey of processing s marble in Turkey.
With the contribution of this entrepreneurial spirit to the export winds blowing in Turkey in those years, it was also underlined that Natural Stone and Marble was an important resource, and investments related to the subject began in the country.
In 1987, a step was taken by importing a Gregory brand tile line of Italian origin, manufactured in a trial phase under limited conditions, in order to reduce the difficulties in the journey of converting the semi-finished products made in Italy into tiles and shipping them to America, and to produce marble tiles in Turkey. The understanding of the function of the used 3-ton capacity forklift, which The company bought and bought without telling anyone, in the truck where the machine was waiting with curiosity for 12 employees, becomes the main focus of attention, where all the charm of the other machines disappears, and it is celebrated with playful atmosphere. Because until that day, all operations such as block loading, unloading, unloading and semi-finished crating were done entirely by the manual labor of these 12 devoted employees. Meanwhile, the first stage confirming the father s statement We turned the stove pipe into a ball and fought is completed.
At the end of 1987, Tureks A.S. exhibited its own production marble tile products at the first National Marble Natural Stone Fair, which was established in the courtyard of ITU Macka stone building campus.
In 1988, with the commissioning of Afyon Organized Industrial Zone, the foundation of a facility with Turkey s top 10 modern marble processing and tile production capacity was laid on an area of 30,000 m2, which was deemed appropriate among the first applications. Immediately after the construction process, cutting machines and the Pedrini branded tile line, which had proven itself under the conditions of that day, were put into operation by the end of the year.
Between 1989 and 1990, efforts were made to add and manufacture additional equipment to the facility, which continues production in the Afyon organized industrial zone. Marble tiles, which are now 100 domestic and all produced in Turkey, are proudly marketed and exported to the company founded by the young generation in America under the name of Marble Systems, continues to increase.
Tureks name was first heard in the international arena at the Marmomac fair, which included marble and natural stone theologies, held in Verona Sant ambrogio in 1989.
In these years, two new quarries were opened in Sivrihisar and Inegoel regions, with the father s idea that we should produce our raw materials from our own quarries. The foundation of the valuable discourse of market your own material and increase its added value , which is still one of our most important principles today, was laid.
This new company, whose entire sales were in the form of exports to America in 1990-1991 and could not complete its planned investments and could not achieve the return phase, experienced its first crisis with the Gulf Crisis that broke out in August 1990. Along with these developments, the loss of Efkan Hamamcıoglu, one of our founding and managing partners, who passed away suddenly, had a negative impact on the management of the company.
In the period between 1992 and 1994, the first test of survival of this new company began with the sudden decrease in sales and unstable sales and production in America.
The company s statement of that day, We should not have a single market , emerged with this price paid, and efforts were made to create new markets in markets such as Dubai. Even the youngest generation family members have started to work in the company. Although all resources have been mobilized, the ongoing financial crisis both in our country and in this young company has limited the company s production possibilities and brought it to a halt.
The years 1994-1996 were spent in the efforts of the youngest generation to get rid of the crisis without realizing it. The foundation of our principle of desperation and crisis creates new opportunities was laid as a result of these efforts at this time. The young generation finds the cheapest raw material and sales that can be obtained under the conditions of that day by turning to the material called Travertine, whose processing is limited only to exterior material and which has valuable resources in our country. However, operations such as filling required for travertine to be used in interior spaces cannot be carried out in export quality as mass production under current conditions in our country. As a result of his research on the subject in Italy, where he received some of his training for the young generation, he commissioned the unfinished part of the facility in the organized industrial zone for the proper processing of travertine.
In the years 1996-1998, the crisis was now turned into an advantage, the company became dynamic and paid its debts, took its first steps as a trendsetter in the sector with another naturally occurring principle, work in the direction of determining the market flow , and reaped the fruits of manufacturing R D studies aimed at increasing the usage areas of travertine. has received. He cemented the process of tumbled travertine and natural stone, which could only be done in small sizes in those days, with his patent application titled A natural stone tumbled method .
In 1996, its participation in the 3rd International Marble, Natural Stone and Technology Fair through Izmir and Izfas was proudly introduced with its new products, with an enlightening and eye-opening view for the sector.
With the new products that started with the patent journey in 1998-2000 and the advantages of filling processes that enable the use of Travertine in interior spaces, marketing activities in America were emphasized and representation started at the international Coverings fairs held in Orlando in partnership with Marble Systems Tureks Turunc Madencilik.
In this environment, production success has been achieved with the principle of Produce with better quality and efficiency instead of trying to reduce the cost, which is still one of our most important production principles today. Sales now continues its activities seriously outside the United States with the energy it receives from production. In these years, R D studies on more decorative marble products such as marble ready profiles and marble mosaics started.
Unfortunately, as a result of the sad September 11, 2001 attacks, which caused a new change in the idea of life and security in the world between 2001 and 2004, Tureks was affected as a company whose main market is America, and container shipments to America were stopped, as was the case all over the world. Due to the need arising from limited container shipments in this crisis, a groundbreaking marketing approach began at that time, such as ordering the desired type of goods to customers. However, since the existing digital discipline was inadequate in 2003, it was decided to create a more comprehensive and long-term digital structure with the help of the young generation responsible for marketing. The SAP management system, which enabled the first foundations of the merger to be laid digitally in these years, was switched to the main investment item in 2003-04. At the end of this period, it became a company that produces a significant portion of its production in alternative decorative products in natural stone and marble, and whose digital infrastructure is sufficient to produce and market this variety.
2004-2007 The sudden recovery following the global crisis, 2 years after the September 11 events, resulted in a boom in housing sales in America. During this period, sales increased and continued until the last quarter of 2008. The company, which has sufficient infrastructure, did not miss this historical opportunity in these years and reached the highest sales figures in the company s history in 2008. This success was crowned with our company being among the top 500 companies in Turkey in 2004-2005-2006.
Although 2008-2010 was expected at any time, the company, which had been growing rapidly until then with the impact of the sudden 2008 crisis, decided to suddenly downsize and change its marketing strategy and started to search for a solution with the principle of the product reaching the end user directly , which is one of its main sales principles. Thanks to the SAP system, the foundations of which were laid 5 years ago and which can now be used professionally by its employees without support, it started to produce easily displayed sample display panels under the name of Marble Systems in America, where all product types can be clearly displayed and orders can be placed. By identifying and persuading the right business partners across the country, which is the most important segment in America, we were able to integrate into their sales channels in a very short time. This move and its result resulted in a decrease in wholesale sales and marketing activities and a shift towards more profitable sales.
2011-2015 The very dynamic market movements that started all over the world in this period forced the company to show the same dynamism in its production and sales capabilities. Our principle of Flexible production, target-oriented marketing , which required a long work, was born in this period when the emerging markets did not show the same performance in the second half of the year. Capacity utilization in production has become available to increase the production of products in demand with very sudden increases. During this long process, very important steps were taken, such as ensuring that all employees can work in all departments through long active training. Apart from the current work, the marketing department focused on projects that will directly use the products on a country basis and started marketing activities before the project started.
It was during this period that we opened up to the project market and signed major projects, the foundations of which were laid in terms of production and sales in the years 2016-2018. Since major projects are mostly of Middle Eastern origin, emphasis was given to this region. All parts of the exterior cladding of a large project built in Kuwait were numbered, ready for assembly and shipped according to the assembly order and were completed very quickly. All employees were congratulated on the smooth completion of the project and that their efforts were truly rewarded.
2019-2020 In this period that shook the whole world and broke all the rules, the company emerged by increasing its flexibility. Thanks to the rapid and effective measures taken on main issues such as rapid cost reduction, switching to more profitable products in the product range, and employee productivity concentration, the company maintained its profitability despite the decrease in turnover and spent this period one step closer to the corporate structure with experiences that will never be captured again.
2021-2022 In these days after Covid-19, with the decision of becoming a single company with Marble Systems in America, whose partners are also members of the Turunc family, in order for the company that was incorporated and institutionalized in the past period to be able to stand independently on its own feet, which was born from itself and was founded 36 years ago. started working. After the necessary infrastructure was established in the first period, the necessary official procedures were initiated within the year and the merger was implemented. It applied to the Stock Exchange, which is one of the most important points in reaching the corporate structure that its founders and partners have attached great importance to since the early days.