Dupont :Temsa's New Strategic Partner
16-06-2005

Ranking among Turkey’s leading exporters with its prosperous business operations and strategic partnerships, Temsa A.Ş. has recently launched a plan to set up a strategic partnership with DuPont with a view to improve and upgrade its paint plant process.

16 June 2005; Adding another strategic partnership to its previous successful ones, Temsa A.Ş. decided to build a strategic partnership with DuPont, which has manufacturing plants in many countries of the world and offers a wide range of products and services to many markets.

At the ceremony held at Temsa's Adana plant on 16 June 2005, Mr. Jean Luc Duramy, DuPont’s Director for Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa, expressed his gladness about being a strategic partner of Temsa, which undersigned countless prosperities with its strong production identity and thanked Mr. Mehmet Buldurgan, General Manager of Temsa, and all other individuals who contributed to the partnership.

Contacted eachother for the first time in November 2004, Temsa and DuPont decided to perform a paint line test at Temsa’a paint plant in January 2005. Following the completion of a series of productive tests as well as analyses conducted on the basis of the quality, technical support and cost criteria defined by Temsa’s Project Team, the parties agreed to set up a Strategic Partnership.

Achieving a first in Turkey, Temsa plans to increase the capacity of its paint plant by 17% by in the short run and its annual painting capacity in terms of 9-meter motor vehicles by 34% in the long run by using DuPont’s products exclusively within the framework of the strategic partnership set up with DuPont. Additionally, once the required paint plant process conditions are achieved, DuPont will offer 5-year paint warranty for Temsa’s motor vehicles, which warranty period may later be extended to 10 years depending on the investments planned. Thus, while travelling on the roads of Europe, Temsa’s vehicles will have the chance to receive assistance from DuPont, an international company, with paints and painting. Within the framework of this technical collaboration, Temsa’s staff members will receive training from DuPont in latest paint technologies, which are developing and changing every other day, and be capable of playing leading and enterprising roles whenever needed. Temsa will have access to DuPont’s laboratories located in Europe and will also have the opportunity to outperform its competitors in terms of foreseeing the future with the help of international specialists. According to this strategic partnership, DuPont will supply all paint materials, implement the negative inventory method, perform paint stock management and paint Temsa’s motor vehicles.

Dupont was founded in 1802 and started its operations in Turkey in 1992. Headquartered in Istanbul and having a production plant, named "DuPont Performance Coatings", offering advanced technology automotive paints/coating products, DuPont operates in more than 70 countries and offers a wide range of products and services for many markets including agriculture, food, electronics, communications, safety, home and construction, transportation and apparel.

Austrian Postbus opts, once again, for Temsa
10-09-2004

It all began about 2 years ago when 5 vehicles were test driven, over a 6-month period, on several different bus routes of Austrias state-owned post-bus company: Postbus AG. Thanks to the very positive results, 62 Safari Intercity’s were ordered back then; these were delivered to Postbus AG in 2003.

Postbus has just placed a follow-up order with Temsa for a further 45 buses. The models involved this time round are the basic Safari as well as the Safari Intercity. Postbus has gone for three different lengths, namely 10.66, 12 and 12.80 metres and the order includes both manual and automatic gearboxes. A bus trailer can be coupled to the shortest version.

Temsa is part of the industry-leading Sabanci group. This group is active on 5 continents, comprises over 71 group companies and has about 31,560 staff on its payroll.

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TEMSA (Europe)