Kardemir
Type | Anonim Şirket |
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BİST: KRDMA | |
Industry | Steel |
Founded | 1937 |
Headquarters | Karabük, Turkey |
Products | Hot rolled round steel bars, steel beams and profiles, blooms, billets, beam blank |
Website | www.kardemir.com |
Kardemir is a Turkish steel producer. The name is a contraction of the Turkish language Karabük Demir Çelik Fabrikaları, which means "Karabük Iron and Steel Works".
History[]
Its main plant is located at Karabük in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Construction of the complex started in 1937 and finished in two years. Power plant was the first plant put into operation in 1939[1] and other plants became operative successionally within 2 years. Having functioned as a state-owned company for decades, Kardemir was privatized in 1995.
Pollution[]
Kardemir burns coal in Turkey.[2] As an integrated steelworks emissions are higher than steel produced at electric arc furnaces.[3] They also own Karabük coal-fired power station.[4]
Sport sponsorship[]
Kardemir is the main sponsor of Karabükspor.
See also[]
- List of steel producers
- List of companies of Turkey
- List of active coal-fired power stations in Turkey
- Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey
External links[]
References[]
- ^ Günebakış. "KARDEMİR'den termik santral bacalarına filtre takılmasına ilişkin açıklama:". Günebakış (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ^ "Kardemir Kömür Alımlarına İlişkin Çıkan Haberleri Yalanladı". BRTV (in Turkish). 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Methodology and detailed results: The external cost of fossil fuel use in power generation, heating and road transport in Turkey (PDF). Shura Energy Centre (Report). December 2020. p. 58.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Enerji Piyasası Veritabanı Yönetim Sistemi". lisans.epdk.org.tr. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- Companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange
- Steel companies of Turkey
- Manufacturing companies established in 1937
- 1937 establishments in Turkey
- Coal in Turkey
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