Heavy industry

Automotive production in Turkey, including light commercial vehicles, tractors, and automobiles, totaled 211,877 million units in the first quarter of 2021, a sectoral report revealed on April 12. 

The Automotive Manufacturers Association said that in January-March, the figure had slipped by 10% from a year ago.

The joint venture which will produce Turkey's first locally made car has appointed a former employee of France's Groupe Renault as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

Talin Yıldız was the Global Marketing Director of the French automotive giant, according to her LinkedIn profile. She has taken the position of CMO at Turkey's Automobile Joint Venture Group (TOGG) as of April 1.

Over the past decade, around 70 million passenger cars have been manufactured worldwide each year. According to detailed information from analysts at statista.com, in 2018, a total of 70,466,000 passenger cars were manufactured in the world.

Turkey's automotive production from January to August dropped 5 percent on a yearly basis, according to the Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD) on Sept.15.

Turkey's automotive production from January to May dropped two percent on a yearly basis, according to the Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD) on June 9.

Turkey’s automotive sales in the first two months of the year declined 0.25 percent compared to the same period in 2017 due to a sharp decline in light commercial vehicle sales, the Automotive Distributors’ Association (ODD) stated on March 2. 

The number of cars sold in Turkey rose 4 percent year-on-year to reach 26,611 in January, the Automotive Distributors Association (ODD) said on Feb. 2.

The second blast furnace at the Smederevo steel mill has been restarted, Tanjug reported on Thursday.

Both furnaces now in operation and the first quantities of steel expected to start flowing in two days, the plant's manager Peter Kamaras said.