Medikal Teknik September 2018

Interview
IKMIB continues its efforts for 2023 targets
Istanbul Chemical and Chemical Products Exporters’ Association (IKMIB)
strengthens its cooperation activities to help its member companies to obtain
leadership positions at global markets.
We spoke to Adil Pelister, Chairman
of IKMIB about exports and
developments in the sector.
What kinds of innovations are
expected in the sector on the
matter of export after Adil
Pelister took the chair of IKMIB?
Since its establishment in 1991,
Istanbul Chemical and Chemical
Products Exporters’ Association
(IKMIB) has been working to
diversify export products and gain
competitiveness in products in
order to protect the professional
ethics and solidarity of exporting
Turkish companies in the chemical
sector and to increase exports. As
a new management team, we also
organize a number of activities to
protect the interests of our members
who are affiliated with our
Association, to establish strong
connections in the international
arena and to help our firms enter
into new markets.
Our goal is, by effectively solving
the problems of our firms, to
provide them for the support they
need both on financial matters
and investment and new market,
to be a bridge between state and
our firms, and, by contributing to
production and branding activities,
to support them reach the highest
level in export.
In this direction, firstly, due to the
market potential, we are planning
to make the chemical sector
more effective in potential countries
such as the United States of
America, China and other Far East
countries. We aim to have Turkish
chemical sector, which is, in
Turkey, on the third seat in exporting
among the other sectors, rise
to the second rank. As a matter
of fact, our sector reached to the
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