At the "Export Champions Award Ceremony" organized by Uludağ Automotive Industry Exporters Association (OİB), the champion company that made the most exports in the automotive industry in 2022 was Ford Otomotiv San. Inc. happened.
At the automotive pride night hosted by OIB Chairman Baran Çelik, awards were distributed in the Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze categories to the top 2022 companies that exported the most in 108.
Baran Çelik, OİB Chairman of the Board of Directors, said: “Turkey has turned into a center of excellence in automotive. In the new mobility order, vehicles have now become technological 'devices'. And sustainability is a must for these devices. We aim to accelerate this transformation with important steps such as OSEP and OGTY and to guide the sector for the European Green Deal. We believe that we will close this year with a historical record of 100 billion dollars, with a performance befitting the honor of the 34th anniversary of the founding of our Republic.” he said.
At the "Export Champions Award Ceremony" organized by Uludağ Automotive Industry Exporters Association (OİB), the companies that exported the most in 2022 in the automotive sector, the leading sector of the Turkish economy, were rewarded. At the pride night hosted by OIB Chairman Baran Çelik, Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.Ş. was announced as the champion company of 2022. He won the 2022 Export Champion award. The championship award was presented to Operations and Investments Leader Cem Temel by TİM President Mustafa Gültepe and OİB Chairman Baran Çelik.
At the night, awards in the Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze categories were presented to the representatives of the top 2022 companies that exported the most in the automotive industry in 108. A total of 270 companies were given export contribution certificates.
TİM President Mustafa Gültepe, OİB Board of Directors, representatives of institutions such as OSD, TAYSAD, ODMD, OYDER and OSS, and managers of leading companies in the automotive industry attended the OİB Export Champions Award Ceremony.
The award ceremony started with the corporate film of the automotive industry, which exports to more than 200 countries and regions registered with the United Nations, including small island countries. In the film, the automotive industry is a pioneer in innovation with nearly 200 R&D and Design Centers and 50 thousand engineers, exports more than 30 billion dollars a year, employs 550 thousand people, produces 9 vehicles every three minutes, exports 6 of them and It was emphasized that it is a giant sector that creates a value of 200 thousand dollars.
“Turkish automotive industry has turned into a center of excellence”
Making the opening speech, OIB Chairman Baran Çelik said that Turkey is 13th in the world and fourth in Europe in vehicle production and has become a center of excellence as the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in Europe. Stating that Turkey has demonstrated its visionary power in the automotive sector by starting to take its place strongly in the production capacity of alternative energy vehicles, especially electricity, with its first domestic and national automobile, TOGG, Çelik said: "Although it varies from year to year, it realizes an average of 15 percent of the country's exports on its own. As the automotive industry, which has had a foreign trade surplus of 2006 billion dollars since 80, we continue our export leadership on a sectoral basis. "We applaud our entire export family, especially our automotive exporters, who work devotedly and fly the Turkish flag all over the world," he said.
“There is a need for increased awareness in green transformation”
Emphasizing that there is a new mobility order consisting of autonomous, electric, connected and shared vehicles in the world automotive industry, and that the sustainability approach is the number one agenda item in the world at a time when cars are now perceived as "technological devices", Baran Çelik said, "Therefore, we need to create a disruptive approach to be a strong part of the great transformation." We must realize the necessary transformation in technologies and green transformation. We have implemented the Sustainability Action Plan (OSEP) in the Turkish Automotive Sector within the scope of TİM's Sustainability Action Plan in order to raise awareness in green transformation and to guide the sector by preparing the infrastructure on the Constitution. "As OİB, we will organize the Future of Automotive Design Competition for the most innovative start-ups that will shape the future of the sector and increase value-added exports, this year with the theme of Sustainability, in the Informatics Valley on October 25," he said.
Stating that they exceeded their targets in the first eight months of this year and exported 17 billion dollars, an increase of 22,8 percent compared to last year, Çelik said, “We believe that we will close this year with a historical record of 100 billion dollars, with a performance befitting the honor of the 34th anniversary of the founding of our Republic. "I wholeheartedly believe that we will work together, shoulder to shoulder, with greater perseverance and determination than ever before, and achieve our goals in order to achieve the goal of the Turkey Century," he said.
“Automotive has great meaning for our country's economy”
TİM President Mustafa Gültepe said, “The automotive industry has great meaning for our country's economy. With the innovative investments in our automotive sector and TOGG's exports, we will achieve much different figures. It also leads the automotive, main industry and supply industry and other sectors. It is a sector that drives exports and triggers growth. "I believe that after last year's break, it will grow further with competitive investments and together we will achieve much higher export figures with the vision of Turkey becoming one of the top 10 economies in the world," he said.
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