Metal & Machinery Industry
Turkey
Metal & Machinery Industry
Sector Introduction
The Machinery and Metal sector is the locomotive of the industry.
The Machinery Sector has an important share in the manufacturing industry in Turkey as well as in the world.
It is observed that the share of the machinery industry in production has increased all over the world, primarily in advanced industrial countries.
A machine is the whole of the mechanisms consisting of wheels, gears and many parts in order to transform one type of energy into another energy, to do a job or to create an effect by using a certain power.
In the machinery manufacturing industry, there are mainly investment and intermediate goods. After the transition to planned development in Turkey, the production of machinery and equipment, which are intermediate and investment goods, has gained importance.
The machinery sector is divided into 18 sub-sectors.
The most important part of our machinery industry exports consists of machinery used in construction and mining, industrial air conditioners and refrigeration machines, machine tools, pumps and compressors, valves, reactors and boilers, food industry machinery, turbines and turbojets.