On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Mr. Mustafa TACİR, President of the TOBB Packaging Industry Council and also a Member of the İSO Board of Directors, paid a visit to the Plastics Industrialists Federation. Hosted by our Federation President Ömer KARADENİZ, Selçuk GÜLSÜN, PLASFED Board Member and PAGDER Board Chairman, Tarık ÖZDEMİR, PLASFED Board Member and PAGDER Board Member, and General Secretary Murat İNKÜN participated in the meeting.
During this meeting, held within the framework of a courtesy visit, issues concerning our industry related to the plastics sector were addressed. Opinions from PLASFED were conveyed to Mr. Mustafa TACİR, particularly regarding raw material and freight prices, the supply chain, fluctuations in foreign currency, oil prices, and the state of industry in Turkey. Our Federation President and also İSO Council Member, Head of the 35th Group Committee, Ömer KARADENİZ, stated that PLASFED, as an umbrella organization, is ready to take steps for initiatives that will concern the entire industry and emphasized that “countries whose industry does not develop will always lag behind,” adding that this can only be overcome through unity and solidarity.
Selçuk GÜLSÜN, PLASFED Board Member and PAGDER Board Chairman, also stated that it is necessary to focus not on the problems of the industry and industrialists, who are among the most important stakeholders in the country's progress, but on producing solutions to these problems. GÜLSÜN emphasized that despite the plastics sector creating extensive added value, it is one of the sectors that suffers the most from raw material issues, underlining the necessity of investment at this point.
Mustafa TACİR stated that as the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey and the Istanbul Chamber of Industry, they are aware of the plastics sector's support for many business lines, and that they will continue to cooperate with all NGOs, especially PLASFED, to solve the sector's raw material, supply, and other major problems and to direct the sector towards value-added production.
At the end of this visit, where opinions and suggestions were discussed, Ömer KARADENİZ expressed his thanks to Mustafa TACİR, and stated that PLASFED, together with its members, will continue its efforts with many NGOs, especially TOBB and İSO, to lighten the burden on industrialists.
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