Rustam Minnikhanov meets with heads of Turkish major industrial enterprises

On May 30, during his working trip to Turkey, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met with Board Chairman of Çukurova Makina Ali Samsa Karamehmet.

Çukurova Makina (Çukurova Group) produces industrial equipment for engineering, construction, transport and energy sectors. Çukurova Group includes 139 companies, including 19 with foreign investments. Total turnover of the holding makes 4 billion dollars per year.

Founded in 1968, the company produced agricultural and forestry machinery under license of an American corporation John Deere. In 2001, Cumitas plant and German company Liebherr started producing excavators. Currently, 2000 units of machinery are produced at the plant. Since 2010, the company has cooperated with OAO “PO ElAZ” (Tatarstan).

Later the same day, Rustam Minnikhanov visited Koluman plant, and met with Board Chairman of Koluman holding Mustafa Koluman. Founded in 1965, Koluman company is the shareholder of Mercedes-Benz and is one of top 100 Turkish companies. Total turnover of the holding is 582 million Euro.

Rustam Minnikhanov invited Mustafa Koluman to the opening of Turkish companies in Tatarstan, said that he is interested in locating Koluman facilities in the republic, and promised to render support in project implementation.