Engineering & Contracting Group

Engineering and Contracting Group’s

Representing one of Tekfen Holding’s two principal business lines, the Engineering and Contracting Group’s experience and competencies as well as its quality and sustainability-focused approaches and a business model whose cornerstone is keeping one’s word make it a solution partner that is preferred by leading employers and project-owners around the world.
Having earned a respected name by completing the more than 400 projects that it has undertaken successfully and on time no matter how demanding they may be, the group conducts its operations both in Turkey and across a broad region that extends from Germany to Kazakhstan and from Bulgaria to Morocco. With a substantial portfolio of cross-border projects to its name, the Engineering and Contracting Group’s thousands of employees and international revenues make it one of the engines of Turkey’s contractor services industry.

The Tekfen Engineering and Contracting Group, with extensive experience especially in oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities, the group supplies its customers mostly with turnkey-delivery EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) and with Design & Build solutions in such areas as pipelines, oil and gas terminals, tank farms, oil refineries, pumping and compressor stations, power plants, industrial facilities, highway and rail system projects, sports complexes, and infrastructure and superstructure projects. To date, the group has successfully completed a large number of such highly challenging projects across a vast region of the world that spans more than twenty countries and ten time zones.

The Tekfen Engineering and Contracting Group conforms strictly to internationally-recognised quality, workplace and occupational health and safety, and environmental management system standards in the conduct of all of its operations. Besides being evidence of the importance that it gives to people, the group’s uncompromising approach when dealing with HSEQ (Health, Safety, Environment & Quality) issues and practices has earned it a world-class record of accident-free success in numerous projects as well as employer awards and citations.

Tekfen Construction

As the flagship company of the Engineering and Contracting Group, Tekfen İnşaat ve Tesisat AŞ (Tekfen Construction) is one of Turkey’s oldest contracting companies with a 64-year track record, extensive international experience, and corporate values and competencies that make it a much sought-out business partner. The company’s outstanding commitment to globally-accepted quality standards powers its steady and consistent growth and enables it to serve even the world’s selective employers. With extensive experience and competencies in the fulfillment of EPC projects, Tekfen Construction manufactures all of the specialized steel equipment and at its own structural steel and pipe fabrication facilities: the Ceyhan steel structure fabrication plant located in Turkey, the Bayıl steel fabrication plant located on the shore of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, and the Atyrau pipe spool fabrication plant located in Kazakhstan. Tekfen Construction carries out its operations in accordance with the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, OHSAS 18001:2007, and ISO 27001:2013 standards. In the conduct of all activities, the company helps contribute to a more sustainable future through superior performance when dealing with workplace health & safety, quality, resource efficiency, and environmental wellbeing issues.

Tekfen Engineering

Set up in 1984 to provide the engineering services needed for turnkey-delivery projects, Tekfen Mühendislik AŞ (Tekfen Engineering) is an effective solution partner whose experience arising from the completion of countless domestic and international projects and strong staff of more than 500 professionals make it especially preferred in the conduct of large-scale EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction), EPCM (Engineering, Procurement & Construction Management), and Design & Build projects. Possessing all of the engineering skills and resources needed to undertake and carry out expertise-demanding infrastructure projects such as refineries and petrochemical plants, terminals, fossil-fuel, gas and renewable-energy power plants, highways, rail systems, and long-span bridges, Tekfen Engineering’s human resources and their knowledge and experience as well as its use of innovative technology make it one of the leading firms in its sector in Turkey. The company also serves non-group customers in the fulfillment of their own industrial plant and infrastructure projects.

Tekfen Manufacturing

Tekfen İmalat (Tekfen Manufacturing) was set up in 1970 to provide international-standard-compliant engineering, manufacturing, and installation services related to the storage and process equipment needed in the oil, petrochemical, and chemical industries and by industrial facilities such as gas plants, iron & steel mills, and power stations. The company conducts its operations at a factory with 19,250 m² of enclosed space that is located in Derince, east of İstanbul. Providing engineering, manufacturing, and installation services that conform to international standards, Tekfen Manufacturing serves a broad customer portfolio in the production of cylindrical and spherical storage tanks, pressurized vessels, process columns, reactors, heat exchangers, waste-heat recovery boilers, pressurized pipe systems, and heavy steel construction. In addition to Tekfen Group companies, Tekfen Manufacturing serves international contractors and domestic and international firms in the conduct of projects involving such projects as refineries, petrochemical, chemical, and fertiliser plants, and LPG storage and distribution.

International Subsidiaries & Affiliates

Based in Germany, Hallesche Mitteldeutsche Bau AG (HMB) is a member of the Engineering and Contracting Group that specializes in procurements and procurement financing.

AZFEN, which was founded in 1996 as a joint venture of Tekfen Construction and SOCAR (Azerbaijan’s state-owned petroleum company), has become a solution partner most trusted by multinationals active in the region owing to its successful track record in undertaking numerous large-scale petroleum and gas-processing projects in Azerbaijan and Georgia.

GATE, which was founded in Kazakhstan in 2002, has been conducting its operations as a wholly-owned Tekfen Engineering and Contracting Group member since 2018. The company has successfully carried out major project design & development, construction, and installation works.