Oct 18, 2021
History 2014
2014 – Eight years after its acquisition, Öncü Inc. launches a corporate restructuring and changes its name to Farform Automotive.
Company History Slide
Oct 18, 2021
History 2014
2014 – As a part of its future mobility strategy, Farplas takes its first step into the CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electrified) technologies and establishes Comodif, a technology start-up enabling connected mobility through its advanced platform solutions.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2013
2013 – Farplas’ President, Ahu Büyükkuşoğlu Serter, establishes the Arya Women Investment Platform (WIP). Arya WIP is a collaborative intelligence platform that empowers female leadership and supports female entrepreneurs with investment, training, events, mentoring, and consultancy programs.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2013
2013 – Twenty-two years after opening its first establishment, Farplas consolidates all of its automotive operations in Gebze, celebrates the opening of T3, its third factory in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone, and retires its “veteran” Avcılar plant.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2012
2012 – Farplas launches “The Art Department” initiative to nurture new contemporary art in Turkiye by supporting emerging artists and promoting local and international cultural exchange.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2012
2012 – The Farplas R&D center receives the “Best R&D Center Performance Award” in the automotive supplier industry from Turkiye’s Ministry of Industry and Technology.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2011
2011 – Farplas enters into a joint venture with Aeroklas Thailand and establishes Faraero in Kocaeli, Turkiye, to develop and manufacture Turkiye’s first local loadliners and bedliners based on HDPE Thermoforming technology for the automotive industry.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2009
2009 – Farplas’ first R&D center obtains authorization from Turkiye’s Ministry of Industry and Technology and becomes a government-certified R&D center.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2009
2009 – With updates in Turkiye’s R&D law, Farplas makes the strategic decision to expand its R&D initiatives and establishes its first R&D center, absorbing Fardizayn under it.
Oct 18, 2021
History 2007
2007 – Farplas expands its automotive manufacturing footprint with T2 plant, its second facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone.