Engineering & Contracting Group

Engineering and Contracting Group’s

With its 68-year history, nearly 10,000 employees including contractors, and more than 400 projects to date, Tekfen Engineering and Contracting Group is one of the leading international representatives of the Turkish engineering and contracting industry. The Group’s extensive experience across various industries establishes it as a preferred international contractor, renowned for its strict adherence to international project management standards, continually evolving structure, business model focused on fulfilling promises, proven track record of success, and sustainability-focused approach.

Leveraging its experience in numerous projects in 20 countries across 10 different time zones, the Tekfen Engineering and Contracting Group mainly operates based on Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) and Design & Build models. It provides its customers with turnkey solutions for various facilities, such as pipelines, oil and gas terminals, tank farms, oil refineries, offshore oil rigs, pump and compressor stations, power plants, industrial plants, petrochemical plants, highway and metro projects, sports complexes, steel structures, and superstructure and infrastructure projects.

Since its inception, the Group has adopted a multidisciplinary approach in engineering, mirroring its strategy in contracting, by integrating cutting-edge technologies into its business processes. A central focus for the Group is to ensure maximum client satisfaction by responding to client needs efficiently and effectively. Executing a significant portion of its projects abroad, the Group is one of the most acclaimed companies in the Turkish contracting industry and is recognised for delivering high-quality services to international clients and providing substantial employment opportunities.

The Group fully complies with the international Quality, Occupational Health and Safety, and Environmental Management System standards in all operations. The importance that the Group attaches to people has enabled it to achieve world-class accident-free rates in many projects. Additionally, the Group has been rewarded numerous times by employer authorities for its high performance in and approach to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) quality.

Tekfen Construction

Tekfen Construction, the flagship company of the Tekfen Engineering and Contracting Group, collaborates with sister companies and strategic partners to offer turnkey services to clients spread across the world. Tekfen Construction is highly experienced and competent in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects and manufactures the structural steel and pipes required for its projects at its Derince and Ceyhan Plants, consolidated under Tekfen Manufacturing in 2023, its Bayıl Steel Manufacturing Plant on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, and its Atyrau Pipe Spool Production Plant in Kazakhstan.

The ISO 9001:2015-, ISO 14001:2015-, ISO 45001:2018- and ISO 27001:2013-certified company contributes to a sustainable future with its high performance in occupational health and safety, quality, resource efficiency, and the environment.

Tekfen Engineering

Tekfen Engineering, providing engineering design, procurement, and project management services for both intra-group and external projects, is one of Türkiye’s leading engineering companies equipped to handle technologically challenging contracting projects requiring extensive know-how. The Company, with a wealth of experience in large-scale EPC (Engineering-Procurement-Construction), EPCM (Engineering-Procurement-Construction Management/Supervision), and Design & Build projects both domestically and internationally, offers services in areas such as basic and detailed engineering, architectural and building solutions, bridges and viaducts, transportation and infrastructure facilities, instrumentation and control, process engineering, risk analysis and design safety, structural design, project management, supervision services, laser scanning, 3D model integration, and digital solutions. Besides its exceptional workforce and expertise, Tekfen Engineering also stands out for its use of innovative technologies.

Tekfen Manufacturing

Since 1970, Tekfen Manufacturing has been catering to the needs of industrial facilities for various storage and process equipment. The Company provides its customers with an extensive portfolio that includes cylindrical and spherical storage tanks, pressure vessels, process columns, reactors, heat exchangers, waste heat recovery boilers, pressure piping circuits, and heavy steel constructions.

The Company offers engineering, manufacturing, and installation services that meet international standards not only to Tekfen Group but also to international contracting firms, refineries, petrochemical, chemical and fertiliser plants, iron and steel factories, power plants, and both domestic and foreign companies engaged in LPG storage and distribution.

In line with the Strategic Plan, to consolidate equipment and modular production capabilities, Ceyhan Manufacturing Facility is structured under Tekfen Manufacturing and Engineering Inc. in November 2023 and Tekfen Manufacturing, plans to relocate its production plant in Derince to the Ceyhan GAT site in the last quarter of 2024.

Fabrication Facilities

Ceyhan

The Ceyhan Manufacturing Plant began operations in 1993 and produces steel pipes and modular structures for projects such as refineries, petrochemical complexes, power plants, marine terminals, oil and gas platforms, bridges and viaducts, and E-houses. The plant has the technology, equipment, and capability to meet the needs of all types of industrial projects on a global scale. It has also been producing stainless, duplex, super duplex carbon alloy and carbon steel pipe spools since 2004. Built on a total area of 160,000 square metres, 37,500 square metres of which is covered, the plant can manufacture 40,000 tonnes of steel per year and 400,000 WDI pipe spools per shift.

Derince

The facility, spanning an area of 19,250 square metres, recorded 126,835 person-hours of labour in 2023. Tekfen Manufacturing, part of whose sales include exports, expanded its portfolio in recent years to include not only its natural market of Middle Eastern countries but also the United States, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Australia. In 2023, the Company exported its first mounded sphere to Benin and continued to expand its LPG sphere manufacturing portfolio with two sphere orders received from Nigeria.

On the domestic front, the production of five process columns and 10 heat exchangers made of titanium- and nickel-alloyed special materials for SASA’s purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant, one of the most important investments in Türkiye, was completed. Again in 2023, the Company completed the manufacture of a 500-tonnes submarine hull included in its production schedule and delivered it to STM.

CTS Bayıl Yard (Baku, Azerbaijan)

The Cenup Tikinti Servis (CTS) Steel Manufacturing Plant, acquired through privatisation from the state in 2003 and subsequently modernised with significant investments, is located 7 km from the capital Baku. This facility supports the Group’s operations in the Caspian region and meets the structural steel manufacturing needs for offshore projects in the area. The plant, located on the Caspian Sea coast, comprises a manufacturing site spanning 122,600 square metres and a factory area of 40,950 square metres. From 1949 to 2003, the plant manufactured and assembled approximately 1,400 oil platforms of various sizes in the Caspian Sea, creating a new and significant competitive advantage for the Group.

With its current capacity, the facility is interested in all industrial and modular oil and gas projects in the Caspian region and is eyeing wind turbine tower manufacturing projects as a potential business area.

Atyrau Pipe Fabrication Facility (Kazakhstan)

The Atyrau Pipe Spool Fabrication Facility, which the Group commissioned in 2019 in Kazakhstan, operates in a closed area of 4,000 square metres on 20 hectares. The facility has a capacity of 150,000 WDI/year, enabling the Group to carry out all of its pipe fabrication work in Kazakhstan and boosting its manufacturing capabilities in the Caspian region.