Minister Varank delivered his speech at the Machinery Summit organized by the Turkish Machinery Federation (MAKFED). While mentioning about the green and digital transformation that discussed as the key topics placing importance for the machinery industry, Varank said the following: ''It’s one of the most exporting sector. The machinery sector, which has a wide range of products, holds a key position in our manufacturing industry. The sector, which operates with 18 thousand 300 companies, has become one of the sectors with the highest export in 2021 with its performance exceeding 23 billion dollars. We anticipate this figure to reach 27 billion dollars in 2022.
Priority Sector
Considering its high-tech structure, positive developments in the machinery sector have the potential to have a revolutionary impact on the economy. For this reason, we have identified machinery as one of the priority sectors in our industrial strategy. We are in a process of a big leap for the production of the important products we import in Turkey. In this context, we paved way to the Technology Oriented Industry Move Program with the machinery sector. In this regard, within the scope of the machinery sector call, we revealed a 2 billion lira financial grant for 20 projects. All of these projects are aiming to achieve the production of strategically important products in Turkey.’’
One of the Core Strengths of Turkey
Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) President Mustafa Gültepe stated that investments that are considering the environment are extremely important in this period in which Turkey is rising with new investments and focusing more on production and exports, and said, "Green machinery will be one of the main strengths of Turkey, which is on the rise with production and exports."
Adnan Dalgakıran, Chairman of MAKFED Board of Directors, said, "When we talk about machinery, we are not actually talking about a sector. We are talking about a country's production capability, that is, its competitiveness."
After the speeches, Minister Varank, Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology Hasan Büyükdede, MAKFED President Adnan Dalgakıran and other participants visited the stands installed within the scope of the summit.
