“Stars of Exports” Award Goes To Ciner Group

 IKMIB (İstanbul Chemicals and Chemical Products Exporters Association) 2020 Stars of Exports Awards have been granted.

Ciner İç ve Dış Ticaret AŞ. Has received the prize in the inorganic chemicals category.

The export stars of Turkey in 2020 in the chemical industry, which is the second-largest exporting sector, have been represented. The annually held “IKMIB Stars of Export Award Ceremony” has been performed in a hybrid fashion on the 18th of June, 2020. 175 prizes have been granted in 35 categories in the 2020 IKMIB Stars of Export Award Ceremony.

Ciner İç ve Dış Ticaret AŞ. was in the first place within the inorganic chemicals category, and Eti Maden and Egesil Kimya followed Ciner in the same award category.

Whereas exports in the global chemicals sector saw 12% decline in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exports in the Turkish chemicals sector saw approximately 11% contraction. Nonetheless, the Turkish sector was able to secure its global export share of 0.6% in the same period. IKMIB, which represents more than 7 thousand exporting companies from different sectors such as plastics, cosmetics, drugs, rubber, medical and dye, and etc. pro se, realized more than 59% of total Turkish chemical exports.

Rıza Tuna Turagay, The Deputy Minister of Trade of the Republic of Turkey; İsmail Gülle, TİM (Turkish Exporters Assembly) Chairman; Adil Pelister, IKMIB Chairman of the Board also attended the award ceremony that was aired online via IKMIB’s own Youtube channel. Within the said ceremony, 175 companies in total that made it to the top 5 in 35 different sub-categories and product groups, were granted with an award.