Kordsa
Ali Caliskan has extensive experience in the field of operations and management, currently serving as a Yönetim Kurulu Üyesi, CEO, and COO of Kordsa since June 2013, overseeing business results across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In addition to these roles, Ali caliskan is the VP of Operations at Sabancı Üniversitesi since April 2022. Previous positions include President Director at PT Indokordsa Tbk in Indonesia from March 2010 to July 2013, Site Operations Director and Yarn Manufacturing Manager at Kordsa Global from October 2000 to February 2010, and various managerial roles at Dusa Dupont-Sabancı JV from October 1987 to September 2000. Ali Caliskan began the professional journey as a Design Engineer at Soyut Mimarlık & Mühendislik in 1984, shortly after completing education at METU.
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Kordsa
Kordsa’s success story begins in 1973 with Sabancı Holding’s plant investment in Izmit to produce tire cord fabric for tire manufacturers. Through the years, Kordsa becoming the market leader in Turkey has also achieved a leading position in global markets by a great know-how on reinforcement materials and processes, its market leadership, strong R&D practices, open innovative approach and strategic perspective in the tire reinforcement industry. Kordsa has been globally recognized as “The Reinforcer” thanks to its technology and market leadership, strong global footprint and 49 years of experience in the reinforcement technologies. Kordsa, reshaping the industry with its “The Reinforcer” position and its strong innovative approach, has entered new business fields and has implemented its tire reinforcement know-how into construction reinforcement and composite reinforcement industries. Kordsa, the leader of the reinforcement technologies, has established the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence in Technopark Istanbul in 2014. The center became active in 2016 in cooperation with Sabancı University. In this center, lecturers of Sabancı University, PhD students and Kordsa employees will be working under the same roof. In this cooperative model, which will be a pioneer in Turkey, Kordsa implements and conducts the “open innovation” concept. Currently, over 5000 global employees of Kordsa work to deliver reinforcement technologies to the world.