Kordsa, reshaping the industry with its innovative technologies, has developed a new generation fast press curable resin called CM14, which eliminates waterspot and whitespot problems thus providing high visual clarity.

Kordsa’s dedication to carry out its operations and projects with people and nature at the core, is standardized with respect to the ISO 14001: 2015 Environmental Management Systems Standard, which results in efficient use of natural resources like energy and water, conservation of biodiversity and combatting climate change for all Kordsa plants. 

Kordsa continues its organic growth with R&D and technology investments while seeking for inorganic growth opportunities in composite business globally. Recently, Kordsa announced the acquisition of Fabric Development Inc. (FDI) and Textile Products Inc. (TPI), which provide advanced composite materials to the commercial aviation industry, with an investment of USD 100 million. Kordsa sees this opportunity as a very important step towards reinforcing its composite market position in the US as well as becoming a strong player in the growing aviation industry supply chain.

Kordsa met with analysts within the scope of Sabancı Industry Day. Kordsa shared information about the developments in tire, construction reinforcement and composite technologies, as well as its investments and objectives in 2018 and answered the questions of analysts.

Inaugurated in December 2017, Kordsa’s new production line of polypropylene monofilament fiber reinforcement, which is based in Kordsa's Izmit plant, became operational in June 2018. With this new investment in construction reinforcement technologies, Kordsa does not only increase its production capacity but also expands its product range.

Kordsa met the representatives of Holland Innovation Network at the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence. 

Kordsa, participated in the Composites Europe 2017 fair held in Stuttgart, Germany between September 19–21 this year. Kordsa presented its efficiency solutions for the automotive and aviation industries, which are two of the most common areas of usage for composite materials.

Kordsa attended the Movin'On Conference in Montreal. At the conference, formerly known as Michelin Challenge Bibendum, held by Michelin for more than 20 years, Kordsa made a presentation that emphasizes the need to lighten vehicles for efficient and sustainable mobility. Kordsa’s presentation also covered the differences that they could make in mobility with their composite technologies developed through their open innovation approach.

Reinforcement technologies’ leader Kordsa’s manufacturing facility at Composite Technologies Center of Excellence, a technology hub inaugurated in cooperation with Sabancı University to bring industry and university together under the same roof, received BS EN ISO 9001:2015 ve EN 9100:2016 (AS9100D) certification, which is an international standard for quality and risk management in the aerospace and defense industry.

BizBize management dialogue meetings, where all factory workers come together with the top management in Kordsa Turkey, started. In the meeting, while sharing information about goals and investments of Kordsa, on the one hand, activities were organized that bring creativity and teamwork at the forefront, on the other hand.