About Farplas Automotive

We are a full system solutions partner for the automotive industry, striving for excellence in the manufacturing and development of innovative polymer systems.

Farplas

Farplas researches, develops, and manufactures superior automotive polymer systems, provides innovative solutions, and implements state-of-the-art technologies to make mobility safer, reliable, affordable, and efficient.

We have complete in-house capabilities to deliver fully integrated solutions worldwide and an efficient human-machine interface to achieve excellent results. Manufacturing and total quality management at Farplas is based on the JKK (Ji Kotei Kanketsu) principle, which means “take pride in what you do” in Japanese. Hence, all our team members strive to achieve quality during production and not through post-quality processes. The JKK mentality, our work culture, and the IATF 16949 automotive quality management system enable us to operate at the top level of automotive requirements.

Our transformative mindset and Kaizen culture help us develop solutions for future mobility challenges and achieve cost competitiveness, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction.

FARPLAS WORLDWIDE

One of Turkiye’s top 250 industrial companies, Farplas has been the solution partner of automotive industry leaders for more than 50 years. With an annual revenue of 130M, we operate in 5 countries with 3 R&D and technology centers, 6 production facilities, and 1,800 employees. Farplas is one of Turkishtimes magazine’s “Top 10 companies with the most R&D investment in the automotive industry in Turkiye in 2020.”

Farplas Worldwide
  • 5 Countries
  • 1800 Employees
  • 7 Plants
  • 4 R&D – Technical Centers

HISTORY

From spare parts sales in 1968 to a world-class automotive design, manufacturing, and
technology company today, discover our inspiring story.

History 1968

1968 - Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu establishes Farplas Automotive Spare Parts Sales Company, as one of the pioneers in the automotive industry in Turkiye.

History 1974

1974 - Building on the success of its automotive spare parts sales, Farplas begins spare parts production, transitioning from sales to manufacturing.

History 1983

1983 - Fifteen years after being established as a family business, Farplas takes its first step towards creating a professionally managed corporate structure.

History 1991

1991 - Farplas establishes its first production facility in Avcılar, Istanbul, Turkiye

History 1996

1996 - Farplas expands outside automotive manufacturing and enters the home appliances market, establishing a plant in the Gebze Organized Industrial Zone (GOSB).

History 1998

1998 - Farplas' home appliances business grows exponentially, and the company decides to spin it off under the brand, Farel. The home appliances business continues growing, and Farel builds a factory in the Çerkezköy Organized Industrial Zone, 90 kilometers from Istanbul.

History 2003

2003 - Farplas partners with full-service German automotive supplier Hymer-Leichtmetallbau GmbH and establishes a joint venture, Farhym, in Ankara, Turkiye. This JV diversifies Farplas' product range by adding "complete bus ceiling systems" to its portfolio and becomes one of its most successful products.

History 2004

2004 - Farplas continues its growth in automotive manufacturing and establishes T1, its first facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone, the automotive manufacturing hub of Turkiye.

History 2005

2005 - As Farplas transforms into a full-service automotive supplier, it launches its own design company, Fardizayn, in Gebze Technopark.

History 2005

2005 - Farplas joins hands with German automotive supplier giant, MAHLE GmbH, to produce air filter systems under the brand, Mahle Farplas.

History 2006

2006 - In a strategic move to grow its commercial vehicle interiors business, Farplas acquires Öncü Inc., a leading supplier for Polyurethane, extrusion, and thermoforming systems for the commercial vehicle segment.

History 2006

2006 - The Büyükkuşoğlu family opens Turkiye's first luxury art boutique hotel, Casa Dell'Arte, in the popular beach town in Bodrum, displaying their eclectic and expansive art collection.

History 2007

2007 - Farplas expands its automotive manufacturing footprint with T2 plant, its second facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

History 2014

2014 - Eight years after its acquisition, Öncü Inc. launches a corporate restructuring and changes its name to Farform Automotive.

History 2014

2014 - Farplas' board of directors establishes Fark Holding, bringing all of the Büyükkuşoğlu family's brands and companies under one roof to create a multinational, multi-industry conglomerate.

History 2014

2014 - Fark Holding acquires Hecha, a Turkish cast iron cookware brand.

History 2015

2015 - To expand its operations into new fields, Farel enters into a joint venture with Wirthwein AG, a German manufacturer of plastic-based components worldwide.

History 2016

2016 - After completing its corporate restructuring process, Farform Automotive moves to Gölcük and starts operating together with Faraero in their new factory, which is strategically positioned near the Ford plant.

History 2016

2016 - Fark Holding establishes a corporate venture capital and private equity arm, F+ Ventures, to search and make strategic investments in the mobility ecosystem.

History 2016

2016 - Farplas launches T4, a logistics facility in the TAYSAD Organized Industrial Zone.

History 2017

2017 - After several years of resident engineering, Farplas decides to operate in the region permanently and opens its Asia Technical Center in South Korea.

History 2017

2017 - Fark Holding launches its second R&D center within Farel to further strengthen its leading position in the home appliances market.

History 2017

2017 - Farplas receives the " İnovaLIG Innovation Strategy Winner" award from the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM).

History 2018

2018 - Casa Dell'Arte expands internationally and opens its second hotel, Casa Dell'Arte Club House, in Lisbon, Portugal.

History 2019

2019 - Farplas establishes its first international production service for Renault Slovenia through a license partner in Croatia.

History 2019

2019 - Fark Holding embarks on a new journey and creates Fark Labs as its innovation and transformation hub to build a "Better Future Together," fusing new generation mobility, transformation, and group strategy activities under one roof.

History 2019

2019 - Fark Labs obtains official R&D center status from Turkiye's Ministry of Industry and Technology, becoming the third R&D center within Fark Holding.

History 2019

2019 - Fark Holding continues expanding its R&D activities by establishing its fourth R&D facility, this time within Farform.

History 2020

2020 - Fark Labs spins off micro-mobility infrastructure-as-a-service solution provider DUCKT, a start-up born, incubated, and accelerated internally.

History 2020

2020 - Farplas and Fark Labs expand to Europe, opening the European Technical Center in Paris, France.

History 2020

2020 - Fark Labs is registered as an official organizing partner of BIGG, the entrepreneurship program of TÜBİTAK (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye).

History 2020

2020 - Fark Labs opens its second hub in Ankara inside the technopark at Middle East Technical University, Turkiye's top-ranking international research university.

History 2021

2021 - Farplas expands its international manufacturing footprint with a new plant in Romania, FSS (Farplas Smart Solutions), a joint venture with a trusted Romanian automotive supplier Delta Invest.

History 2021

2021 - Farplas further extends its global manufacturing presence in Asia by opening a plant in Thailand in partnership with Faraero Thailand, which becomes Farplas' seventh plant.

History 2021

2021 - After years of meticulous R&D and business success in lighting products, Farplas forms a separate business unit as 'Farplas Lighting' to transform the legacy lighting business into a new-age electronic vehicle interior system.

History 2021

2021 - Farplas, invested 2.5 million Euros in Büyütech, which developed Turkey’s first domestic smart camera.

History 2022

2022 - Farplas, through its venture capital firm, F+ Ventures, invested in Saykal Elektronics.

VALUES

We live, collaborate, and communicate by these five principles. They keep us focused on what matters. As we express ourselves with our values, a more significant “we” emerges, and the rules of the game change.

People are our greatest asset.
Persistence is our attitude.
Purpose is our driving force.
Progress is our daily dose.
Passion is our energy source.



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CORPORATE VISION

The path to a better future

As a company that never stops reinventing itself, we keep up with global mobility trends and carve out a new space within them that aligns with our core values. As such, in the next decade, we are exploring innovative solutions in material science, embedded electronics, connectivity, electrification, micro-mobility, autonomous driving, and vision systems.

Building empowerment through autonomy, we cultivate a People in Charge philosophy. Our goal is to build a better future with our agile, lean, multi-skilled, and multi-cultural teams through collaboration. Promoting an opportunistic and entrepreneurial mindset allows us to be more creative and innovative.

Progress with Digitalization is a must to enable future-readiness. We continuously optimize our knowledge management, digitalized processes, and real-time data analytics to accelerate Farplas’ digital capabilities.

Growth Persistence inspires us to work toward a unified purpose to expand our reach, nurture new ventures and enrich our customer base.

Our Passion for Technology ensures that we stay relevant and competitive as the automotive industry undergoes a fundamental transformation driven by shifting consumer preferences. We focus on developing advanced manufacturing, advanced engineering, and new industrial material and chemical technologies. We aim to produce next-generation products, especially in the micro-mobility and EV markets.

Our Common Purpose is to expand our ecosystem through the Fark Labs network, our incubated startups, and our venture capital arm, F+ Ventures.

We aim to benefit from the global ecosystem, advance our know-how and develop custom-defined accumulated data in partnership with our group companies through technological and industrial partnerships with stakeholders, global leaders, and strategic acquisitions.

LEADERSHIP

CUSTOMERS

We partner with major global automotive OEMs.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Farplas is a proud participant of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. Sustainable action is an integral part of everything we do. We believe that making a positive impact on society, environment, and the world is the essence of a successful business.

We are committed to aligning our operations, strategies, and policies with the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact in human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. By establishing a culture of integrity, we reflect the basic concepts of fairness, honesty, and respect for people and the environment in our business actions.

Human Rights
Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and
Principle 2: Make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.

Labour
Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
Principle 4: The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor;
Principle 5: The effective abolition of child labor; and
Principle 6: The elimination of discrimination with respect to employment and occupation.

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Environment
Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
Principle 8: Undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle 9: Encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technologies.

Anti-Corruption
Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.


Farplas also contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Horizon

For over ten years, Farplas has been leading several government-funded research projects to build sustainable new practices for the automotive sector, from recycling to bio-materials. In 2019, we updated our sustainability targets and added “circular economy” to our primary research and development goals. We actively participate in several circular economy-related projects in Horizon 2020, the EU’s flagship research and innovation program. In addition, our team is the lead on one of these projects, REVOLUTION.

Committed to leaving a lasting positive legacy, we operate responsibly, ethically, and transparently to build a better sustainable future together.

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY

POLICIES


HEALTH AND SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT

Our top priorities are the people and the environment. Based on the continuous improvement approach, we consider our employees' health and safety and raise energy efficiency awareness.

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INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

We protect our information technology portfolio as part of security, integrity and availability guidelines. We know how critical our Information Security Management System is to the efficiency and continuity of our business.

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

As Farplas, we support the quality of communal living and the social responsibility projects. We believe that working for a high standard of welfare and prosperity for society and humanity is essential.

QUALITY

We meet the expectations of our local and international customers by implementing advanced technologies that improve the effectiveness of our Quality Management System in our manufacturing lines.

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