1968 - Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu establishes Farplas Automotive Spare Parts Sales Company, as one of the pioneers in the automotive industry in Turkiye.
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 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.”
- 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.
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.
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
AHU BÜYÜKKUŞOĞLU SERTER President
DENİZ BÜYÜKKUŞOĞLU Vice President
ÖMER BURHANOĞLU Fark Holding CEO & Executive Board Member
EMİN ATAÇ Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
AYKUT BAŞOL Head of Operations
ALİ İNAMLIK Head of Finance
MUSTAFA KEMAL GÜNGÖR Head of Quality
TOLGA YALGI Head of Commercial
GOKHAN TASAR Romania – Plant Manager
HYUNKI JUNG South Korea – Country Manager
SURENDRAN RAMANNAIDU Thailand – Plant Manager
CUSTOMERS
We partner with major global automotive OEMs.
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.
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.
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.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY
As a company that strives to have a positive social impact, our mission has always been to enrich communities and make people’s lives better. We fund educational and healthcare initiatives, invest in programs that promote women’s empowerment, and support arts & culture. With all our social responsibility projects, our Founder & Honorary President Yunus Büyükkuşoğlu was on the list of Capital magazine’s “Turkiye’s 50 Most Charitable Leaders” consecutively in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Farplas is the main sponsor of the Arya Women Investment Platform (WIP) since its founding in 2013. Established by our President Ahu Büyükkuşoğlu Serter, Arya WIP is a collaborative intelligence platform that empowers female leadership and supports female entrepreneurs with investment, training, events, mentoring, and consultancy programs.
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