Automotive Exports – May 2017

Monthly automotive aftermarket magazine
Turkish Automotive Sector
Represented In Brazil
Turkish automotive sector has increasing its effect in Latin American market
joining the fairs as the national participation with every passing year
A
leading automotive fair of
Latin America, Automec
2017 was held in Sao Paulo. Turkish
automotive industrialists joined the
fair as the second big participant
with 19 firms and promotion stands
following Chinese participants.
Turkish automotive industry
participated with 19 firms in the
international spare parts and
component fair held in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. With the organization
of Uludag Automotive Industry
Exporters Association (OIB), the
Turkish promotion stand drew
attention of the visitors. Yasin Akdere,
Member of Audit of the OIB, in his
statement said they participated in
the biggest automotive supplier fair
of South America with 19 firms and
promotion stand including a space
of360 sqm. Totally, the number of
800 participants took place at the
fair of which 350 were foreign and
450 were from Brazil. He added
they joined the fair sixth time since
2010.
Highlighting they had become
second big participant following
Chinese participants, Akdere said,
“As the Turkish automotive exporters
union, we realize every kind of
help and organization for our
participant firms in order to let our
firms to get share from the Brazilian
market. Satisfaction and feedbacks
that we have seen until now are
in the direction that organization
has become successful and its
results would be also positive. In
this meaning, I hope we will get
remarkable results from the fair.”
National participation surges Turkish
effect at the fairs
The Turkish businessperson Altug
Demir who came from Chile said
that Turkey’s investment in Chile was
continuing increasingly with every
passing year.
“The Turkish firms especially in the
automotive supplier industry have
been in competition in Latin America
region with Chinese firms in terms of
confidence and price,” he added.
The Turkish businessman Umut Eker
lives in Brazil said following defense
industry fair held in Rio de Janeiro
Turkish automotive sector landed in
Brazil with a record participation. He
added Turkish effect has increased in
Latin America along with every fair in
the scope of national participation.
62 MAY 2017