Welcome to Sakosa

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Welcome to Sakosa
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Program

• 0830 Depart from Istanbul
• 1000 Arrival to Kentsa (Argesa Conference Room)
• Coffe - Presentations
• 10 45 Moving To Sakosa Site
• 1100 Site Tour Starts at Sakosa
• 1200 Lunch (Kentsa Social Club)
• 1300 Depart from Kentsa to Istanbul

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Sabanci Holding

Turnover USD 11 billion Employment 35,000
Joint Ventures with Bridgestone DuPont Bekaert P
hilip Morris Toyota Carrefour Heidelberg
Zement International Paper Banque Nationale de
Paris Dresdner Bank
Sectors Tire, Tire Reinforcement,
Automotive Banking and Insurance Chemistry Retaili
ng Food Cement Textile
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Kentsa Introductory Film (5 min.)
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Road To Excellence in Polyester Tire
Reinforcement

• Presentation at
• Knowledge Economic Forum IV
• March 24, 2005
• Izmit, Turkey

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Contents

• Tire Industry
• Tire Reinforcement Materials
• Kentsa serving to tire industry...
• Sakosa
• Introduction
• Innovation and Development
• New Product Development
• Respect To Environment (reaching to benchmark
  level)
• Culture and Training
• Aligning Company and Employee Performance

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Tire Industry

Types of Tires Auto Light Truck Truck/Bus
Others
Tire Markets Vehicle Producers
(OE) Replacement Buyers
Tire Technology Radial Cross-Ply
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Tire Industry

• A global business.
• Big 5 manufacturers produce around 70 of worlds
  demand

• Very high technical standarts
• Approval times for a new product take around 1.5
  year

• Turkey, a critical production centre to Greater
  Europe (Europe, Middle East, Africa)

• PETLAS

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Tire Reinforcement Materials

A typical radial tire for automobiles is
reinfoced by .....
Steel

• Fabric combinations of
• Polyester,
• Polyamide,
• Viscose

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Sabanci Holding serving to Tire Industry

• Holdings Strategic Business Unit
• Tire, TireReinforcement Automotive
• Location Kentsa Industrial Site, where there is
  one tire manufacturer, three reinforcement
  material producer factories and one co-generator
  plant.
• Focus of this site visit Sakosa, one of the
  three tire reinforcement material producer plants
  

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Kentsa Serving To Tire Industry ...

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What does Sakosa Produce?
HMLS polyester yarn and
Fabric made of this yarn to be used as
reinforcement material in tires
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Sakosa

Offices
Yarn Production
Fabric Production
Special Treatment To Fabric
Utilities
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Production Flow of Sakosa
Weaving
PET Chip
Yarn Production
High Modulus Low Shrinkage (HMLS) Polyester yarn
Treatment to Fabric
Twisting
Fabric for Tire
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Sakosa Highlights

• Started production in year 2000 as a JV between
  KoSa (Invista) (USA) and Sabanci Holding.
• Became 100 Sabanci company at the end of 2001.
• Currently
• 300 employees
• A revenue of 63 million Euros
• Exports 80 of its production
• Number One HMLS polyester fabric supplier in
  Greater Europe

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Strengths and Opportunities

• Opportunities
• Joint development requests from global tire
  manufacturers
• Internationalization

• Strengths
• Modern technology
• Increasing demand to product
• Integrated facility
• Efficient, young and dynamic workforce

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Customers of Sakosa
Number One HMLS polyester fabric supplier in
Greater Europe
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Innovation and Learning in Sakosa
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New Product Development
A new type of yarn (characterised by thickness
2200 dtex) is developed by Sakosa

• A TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN MANUFACTURING PROCESS
• ELIMINATES ONE EXTRA STEP IN PRODUCTION (COST
  EFFECTIVENESS)
• IMPROVED YARN PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• MORE HOMOGENITY AT BASIC PROPERTIES
• EXCEEDING CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS
• HIGH PERFORMANCE AT CUSTOMERS MILLS
• HIGH VOLUME PRODUCTION CAPABILITY

• ACHIEVED BY
• IMPROVED UP-STREAM PROCESS,
• INNOVATED HIGH CAPACITY POLYMER PUMPS
• IMPROVED YARN PATH ALIGNMENT
• INNOVATED TAKE-UP MECHANIZATION
• INNOVATED WINDER OPERATING PROGRAM

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New Product Development (..contd)
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Respect To Environment
During ISO 14001 certification process, Sakosas
25 different applications has been selected as
benchmark level best practices.
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Respect To Environment

• CERTIFICATION PROCESS
• WITHOUT ANY NONCONFORMITY
• COMPLETED IN HALF OF THE AVERAGE COMPLETION TIME
• SAKOSAS 25 DIFFERENT AREAS HAS BEEN SELECTED AS
  BEST PRACTICES

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Respect To Environment

• KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
• COMMITMENT AND INVOLVEMENT OF TOP
• MANAGEMENT
• PARTICIPATION OF ALL PROCESS OWNERS
• EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK
• OWNERSHIP AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF EMPLOYEES
• USING OF BENCHMARKING AS A LEARNING TOOL

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Respect To Environment

• SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF SAKOSAS BEST PRACTICES
• DEPLOYMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AS A STRATEGIC
  TARGET YEARLY BASSIS
• MANAGEMENT OF CERTIFICATION PROCESS
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR SAVING THE
  NATURAL RESOURCES
• EFFECTIVE TRAINING PROGRAMS, WORKSHOPS, EXTERNAL
  VISIT AND REWARDING ACTIVITIES
• PLANNED AND SYSTEMATIC PROCESS COMPARISON AND
  BENCHMARKING OF ESHA SYSTEMS

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Company Culture
In 2000, a joint study with Sabanci University
had been realized to determine corporate culture,
and hence to take actions so as to reach the
targeted culture.
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Company Culture (...contd)
Results of Survey
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Training (2004)
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Aligning Company and Employee Performance
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• - End of presentation -
• 2 minutes for your safety...

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Safety During Site Visit

• There is a group number on the hand-outs given to
  you. Please follow your assigned guide.
• During tour
• Please stay between white lines
• Wear safety glasses at all times
• Put your ties into your shirt
• Switch off your mobile phones
• In case of losing your group, please go to
  meeting point (tree at the entrance of
  administration building)

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You are in Group Number Please follow your
Guide for Group . Your visit track will be as
shown. During tour, please stay between white
lines for your safety Please be at meeting point
at 1230
Offices
Meeting Point
Yarn Production
Fabric Production
Special Treatment To Fabric
Warehouses
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• Thank you...