Memet Makina

[ENG] Mehmet Buyukciftci, Chairman of the Board of Memet Machinery Industry Trade Inc., was born in Konya in 1972. He went into industry at the age of 12 and started to work in various companies. He gained experience and knowledge in his field by passing the stages of apprenticeship and journeyman. In 1997, he established his own workplace and put his acquisition into practice. When he opened this workplace, he borrowed a tractor that had a fair value of approximately $6000 from his father and used it as capital. He put his workplace into operation with a lathe in 80 square meters in a small industrial site. Memet Machinery has become a company that manufactures candy and chocolate machines, exports to 65 countries in the world by enlarging from 40 thousand square meters to 26 thousand m2 closed area and with 180 experienced employees and has a say in sugar and chocolate machines in its sector. Buyukciftci, who sees business life as an INNOVATION, has ensured by taking COURAGEOUS and DECISIVE steps that Memet Machinery is operating in 65 countries with its 34 years of knowledge and experience in the industry. The ENTREPRENEURIAL spirit of Buyukciftci is the reason why Memet Machinery operates in so many countries around the world in a short period of time. Memet Machinery, operating in many countries of the world, aims to be among the top three chocolate machine manufacturers in the world. Memet Machinery attaches great importance to R&D activities within the framework of this aim and realizes its investments in this direction. Memet Machinery, developing by doing reverse engineering, puts its R&D studies into manufacturing very quickly. In this context, it has manufactured machines that are the first ones in Turkey and the world. It has increased the production capacity of its existing customers with less manpower, less energy consumption and responsibility towards nature with these innovations.