In our interview, Mr. Mustafa Acıpayamoğlu, General Manager of Altermak answered our questions. Acıpayamoğlu gave information about the development process and current structure of Altermak.
Could you please briefly tell us about your educational and professional background?
I was born in 1967 in Istanbul. I studied primary school, secondary school and high school in Istanbul. After graduating from Industrial Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU), I completed my master’s degree at ITU. I have a good level of English.
I’m married and I have two children, one girl and a boy. I’ve started my professional life in 1992 in Nuri Baylar A.Ş. company, which was Wagner Turkey general distributor. I had worked there as sales manager for 3 years and learned many things there, which I always mention with proud.
After these 3 years, maybe we moved up these steps a little too fast, but with the excitement of the time and the effect of our desire to trade, mechanical engineer Rahmet Çağatay and I, we have established Altermak company in 1995. We started sales activities related to our sector.
All across Turkey, since 1995, exactly for 24 years, we have operating in general sales, service and spare parts of Wagner company. Our aim is to supply the machines that paint all the colors we see around and deliver them to all sectors.
As of today, we serve and continue to give service with these machines in all areas, from industry to furniture, from construction to white goods, from automotive to heavy industry.
Could you please give information about Altermak’s history and milestones?
Altermak was founded in 1995 by 2 partners as I mentioned earlier, in order to establish the modern and automatic painting lines needed by the industries. From its foundation, Altermak has been continuing to work with Wagner company which is leading powder coating machinery market.
In time, Altermak also became Turkey distributor of brands such as; CNC woodworking machinery producer İtalian based V. Alberti, Italpress and Swiss-based Striebig.
Today Altermak serves as an expert company which gives technical service, supply spare parts and installs production lines of the majority of the giant companies, especially for the ones operating in furniture manufacturing and other industries like metal, automotive, furniture, white goods, construction, heavy industry which use powder coating.
With its 21 employees, Altermak is main technological supporter of companies manufacturing in every corner of Turkey. With its knowledge, technology, efficient and expert team. Altermak has become a leading, respected and pioneer brand within the industry.
To which industries and with what kind of products does Altermak mainly serve? Could you please give information about Altermak’s products, brands and services?
From our establishment till today, we’ve been keeping our product variety up-to-date in line with the demands we have received. Our main focus is on the installation of painting systems, automations, equipment, machines, turnkey paint plants and also to supply the paint equipment to be used in these facilities.
In the intensive painting, powder coating and enameling systems where we operate intensively, we determine the needs of different systems and offer the most optimum products.
As Turkey distributor, we effectively serving to our existing customer portfolio by providing Wagner paint systems in the most effective way, after sales service and introducing these systems to new customers. The high-quality service offered to our existing customers is also very important in reaching new consumers and markets.
In addition, as an additional service industry, we are supplying all machinery and equipment needed in small-medium and large enterprises in the wood processing sector which is directly connected with paints.
Could you please tell about your domestic and international sales activities? To which regions and what kind of products does Altermak mainly sell?
Our work in the domestic open market, where the economic dynamics are constantly active and open to surprises, continues uninterruptedly. We strive to maintain our dynamic structure in order to instantly adapt to changing economy and market conditions.
Global economic negativities in the world, political turmoil in our geography unfortunately cause negative effects on all markets. Experiences gained in similar negative periods in previous periods made a significant contribution to making correct and effective decisions.
As Altermak, we fully believe that these conditions will end, and better days will come. In Turkish market, we will continue to offer latest innovations and developments related to our products. In the competitive environment, high capacity error-free production is gaining importance every day.
In order to adapt to changing market conditions, our customers working in the painting industry increase their existing capacity or renew their production lines. We are always supporting our customers with our high-quality Wagner paint, powder coating and enamel application systems.
We mainly sell products to the regions where the industry is more concentrated. Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir are the leading ones.
But Bursa, Kayseri and especially recently Konya, Antep, Denizli cities are also very fast developing regions. We also re-export the products to some of the Turkic Republics, North African countries and Middle East market.
Can you give information about Altermak’s environmental policy and sustainability approach? What kind of works and studies are performed in the area of worker health and safety?
As the leading companies in their sectors, our companies are followed by a sustainable environmental management policy based on international environmental legislation, relevant environmental standards and the best technologies in this field.
In order to minimize the environmental and social risks that may arise from our activities, we have chosen sustainability policies and environmentally friendly production technologies.
The paint and enamel systems we have applied have been developed with the principle of sustainable waste management, reducing the pollution at the source and minimizing waste generation, reusing, recycling and recycling.
What are the priority criteria of Altermak when creating investment plans? Does Altermak have any investment plans in near and far future?
Since our establishment, we have been working with the world’s leading manufacturers in our field of activity to offer products with the latest technology to our existing markets. We have established a bridge that works well between producers and end consumers, ensuring that the needs are met to the maximum extent.
Today, like as is every industry, all local and global problems have affected us negatively. By continuing our current service quality, we try to minimize the effects of this negative durationn on our company. We also continue our efforts to expand our new market and new customer portfolio.
