Machine Tools Industrialists and Business Association of Turkey

Machine Tools Industrialists and Business People Association (TİAD), founded in 1992, is a professional non-governmental organization established to bring together industrialists and business people operating in the fields of machine tools, complementary equipment (tools, clamping systems, spare parts of machine tools and other related equipment/machinery, etc.), metrology and quality control equipment, software used in production technologies, other related manufacturing machines (additive manufacturing machines, robots, automation and mechatronic systems, laser welding, optical equipment processing, etc.), which are the basic production tools of the manufacturing industry, export, after-sales technical services, technology transfer and support services for increasing value-added production and export power; to establish the professional principles of the sector and to ensure their implementation and to represent its members in the best way possible on relevant platforms at home and abroad. Operating from its Headquarters in Bayrampaşa, Istanbul, TİAD is continuously developing with its 232 members and fields of activity and reinforces its leading position within our country's industry. More than 80 percent of Turkey’s machine tool and related complementary systems needs are met by TİAD members. TİAD, which is a member of the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology Machinery Technical Committee, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Assembly and MAKFED in Turkey, has been a member of the “European Machine Tools, Tools and Technologies Trade Association (CELIMO)”, the umbrella organization of the machine tool sector in Europe, since 2000. TİAD held the presidency of CELIMO between 2006-2008 and 2020-2023.