Turkish Kocaer presents its growth strategy for 2025-2030

Steel producer plans to expand production of profiles and build a new smelting shop

Turkish steelmaker Kocaer Celik has presented its growth strategy for 2025-2030. In particular, the company plans to increase its profile production capacity and strengthen its energy independence, SteelOrbis reports.

Kocaer Celik plans to invest in a fourth steel profile plant with a capacity of 500 thousand tons per year. The company will thus add to its portfolio those steel grades that are not produced in the country, increase the total capacity to produce these products to 1.3 million tons per year by 2030 and will be able to replace imports.

In addition, Kocaer intends to build a new 1 million tonne per annum smelter using advanced technologies to produce high-quality, higher value-added products, such as billets of various sizes and grades. These facilities will also be suitable for the production of green steel. The shop is scheduled to be commissioned in 2028.

The company aims to strengthen its international distribution networks. As part of these plans, the steelmaker is working to increase the capacity and number of its service centers, as well as to open five new sales channels in Saudi Arabia, the US and the EU.

Kocaer intends to meet all of its energy needs with 20% of the clean energy that will be generated by the Aydın geothermal power plant currently under construction (the first phase will have a capacity of 24 MW), as well as through its rooftop solar power plants. These efforts will allow Kocaer Gelik to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and sell 80% of the remaining energy.

Investments in other geothermal and solar power plants will increase the company’s total renewable energy capacity to about 900 MW. In particular, this will cover the energy needs of the new steel profile plant and smelting shop.

Kocaer Celik is one of Turkey’s leading steel profile producers in its segment, producing more than 12,000 products of various types, sizes and thicknesses.

As GMK Center reported earlier, Turkish steelmaker Tosyali Holding plans to invest $1.5-2 billion a year in global expansion, including Africa and Saudi Arabia, as well as potential acquisitions and partnerships in Europe and America. Within 5 years, Tosyali plans to increase its steelmaking capacity to 20 million tons from the current 14 million tons.