1979 |
KONVEYOR was founded as a manufacturer of chain-forged overhead conveyor systems by AKSU family and 2 other partners |
1981 |
Start of manufacturing of aluminium-forged burner caps for gas cookers |
1988 |
AKSU family bought the rest of the shares |
1988 |
Production was moved to 300 sqm rented building in Kartal, Istanbul |
1988 |
Start of manufacturing Al Gas Tubes and Cu Air Con tubes |
1992 |
Last conveyor system was mounted |
1992 |
Start of manufacturing Al+Cu Suction Tubes |
1992 |
Konveyor’s branch was established in a 350 sqm rented building in Eskisehir to supply Al+Cu (mono tube) Heat Exchangers to the biggest refrigerator plant of the country there |
1994 |
As the business grew, a couple of more buildings were rented nearby and total closed area reached to 2000 sqm in Istanbul |
1994 |
Start of manufacturing Cu Boiler Tubes |
1997 |
Settling into both of our own factories in the industrial districts of Tuzla, Istanbul (5000 sqm), and Eskisehir (3000 sqm) |
1998 |
Certified for ISO 9001 by RWTÜV of Germany. |
1999 |
Eskisehir factory was enlarged to 6000 m² sqm. |
2001 |
Purchase of a new 2000 sqm building near the Tuzla plant and establishment of the subsidiary company KONMAK to operate there. |
2001 |
Start of manufacturing WOT (Eskisehir), Air Con Cu tubes (both in Istanbul and later in Manisa in 2002) |
2002 |
Establishment of the 2nd subsidiary company in Manisa (MAKON), in 5000 sqm building in the industrial district. |
2002 |
Start of manufacturing Capillary Tubes in KONMAK. |
2002 |
Under KONMAK, a separate organization is established in order to design and built machineries needed for all of Konveyor factories and to carry out some R&D works. |
2003 |
Start of manufacturing NF Evaporators in Istanbul |
2004 |
Eskisehir factory was enlarged to 12000 sqm. |
2004 |
Due to more production space needed, the land in the Free Tax Zone Area of Tuzla (Istanbul) was bought and the construction of the building was started. |
2005 |
Start of the activities in the Free Zone Plant (15000 sqm) under the 3rd subsidiary KONVEYOR LTD. The NF and export Heat Exchanger productions and the R&D organization were moved from the Tuzla and KONMAK plants to there. |
2006 |
Investment for the first Al tube extrusion line in the Free Zone Plant. |
2007 |
Investment of the second Al tube extrusion line was made and the ISO 14 000 certificate was received for the Eskisehir Plant. |
2008 |
Investment of the third Al tube extrusion line. |
2008 |
In the Free Zone Factory, the R&D section developed an innovative and automatic production system for the NF evaporators successfully. |
2009 |
Start of manufacturing the NF Heating Elements in the Free Zone Factory. |
2010 |
The machineries of the gigantic size NF Evaporators for supermarket food display coolers and also for “glued” POT evaporators were developed and built by the R&D team successfully. |
2010 |
Start of manufacturing steel Gas Manifold in the Manisa Plant. |
2011 |
Decision was given to expand the Free Zone Factory to 24 000 sqm and the construction was started. |
2011 |
The business partnership agreement with HYDRO was signed. |
2011 |
The 2 subsidiaries (KONMAK and MAKON) were merged inside the mother company to continue operating under 2 companies only: |
· KONVEYOR AS: Factories: Tuzla (2), Eskisehir (2), Manisa, |
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· KONVEYOR LTD: Free Zone Factory. |
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2012 |
The expansion of the Free Tax Zone Plant was completed. After the investment made for 2 more aluminum tube extrusion lines, total number of lines became 5. |
2013 |
The WOT Condenser machinery of a supplier who shut down its operations was bought and the machinery was moved to the Free Tax Zone Plant. After the said investment Konveyor became the only supplier in Europe who could be able to supply all of the refrigeration circuit components except the compressors under the same roof. |
2013 |
As of the end of the year the total turnover exceeded 100 M€ and the total number of employee reached to 1700. |
2014 |
We built a new factory building in the vicinity of the existing Istanbul plants (named Orhanli Plant). The idea was to shift all internal production of the Free Zone plant to the new plant, which was achieved as of the end of 2014. The Free Zone Plant has been dedicated for the exports only as of the end of the same year. |
2015 |
We decided to remain in the “dynamic type WOT condensers” range only (no more flat condensers). |
2015 |
We started manufacturing very special painted copper tubes known as “evaporation tubes” in the cooling circuits. |
2018 |
We acquired an active factory in Kalisz, Poland. The operation, named “KONVEYOR POLSKA” after the acquisition, has 10,000 sqm of covered area and 250 employees. |
2019 |
We built a new factory building in Manisa Industrial Area which is 25000 sqm and moved all production at old Manisa Plant to the new plant.. |
