(MENAFN- AzerNews) By News Center
Manufacturers of auto spare parts, who exported vehicles worth
$31 billion in 2022, want to be competitive in the electric vehicle
market with Togg.
Anil Yuceturk, president of OSS, stated that they have a 50
billion dollar export goal.
“Togg is the university for the supply industry. We shall use
the knowledge we learn from this university to help our industry
get ready for jobs abroad”.
The domestic automotive spare parts industry increased its
target to 50 billion dollars after realizing 12 billion of the
previous year's 31 billion in automotive exports.
Important statements about Togg were made by the Automotive
After Sales Products and Services Association (OSS), the umbrella
organization for spare parts and services that assesses the
performance of 2022 and shares its future objectives.
OSS Vice President Anil Yuceturk, who stated that the aim of
Turkiye's Automobile Togg is not to produce vehicles but to
completely transform the automotive industry, asking“Why is Togg
important?'
'Togg is not important for vehicle production. Togg is actually
the university of the supply industry. With the information we will
receive from this university, we will prepare the supply industry,
the producers here, for jobs abroad. At Togg, everyone from the
local manufacturers put something in, and eventually, those
structures started to go toward a vehicle. Vestel's display
actually emerged from the front display we see in refrigerators and
washing machines and went there. Vestel started to sell it abroad
as well. A 100-year-old vehicle manufacturer started to supply
parts to a company.”
OSS President Ziya Ozalp, who stated that OSS's goals are high
with its 247 members and 75,000 employees, said that“There is a 5
billion dollar market in spare parts and after-sales services in
Turkiye. We cover 80 percent of this with our members. After the
pandemic, the importance of our industry has become even more
evident. Foreign investors see Turkiye as the base of the Middle
East and manage from here. In this sense, besides being an
alternative to China, they reached our border to invest. They came
as far as Bulgaria and Greece. They are ready to enter Turkiye,' he
said.
Noting that it is possible for them to export 50 billion dollars
as a supply industry, Ziya Ozalp said.
“This is only possible by selling spare parts to the world. For
this, to be clear, it is necessary to ensure the general unity of
the sector, rather than any public support, rather than different
support. NGOs play a very important role here. We are ready to
convey the formulas related to the increase in the supply industry
from 12 billion dollars to 50 billion dollars in the automotive
sector with our presentations to all public institutions and all
NGOs. Especially at this point, we are in talks with both our
national companies and international companies that will invest.
There is no other country that has the knowledge and experience to
produce spare parts for 300 million vehicles in the countries we
cover.”
Emphasizing that the automotive parts produced in Turkiye are
produced under the license of foreign companies and that we are not
our own brand, OSS President Ozalp said.
“Most of the companies producing in Europe already produce their
own parts in Turkiye. In addition, especially North African
countries are eager for the parts produced in Turkiye recently. We
are ahead of German brands in taking orders in this geography.
There is no product in the world that we cannot compete with China
in automotive parts. Only the US market is a big and strong market
where we are foreigners,' he said.
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