Turkey, the prime of Europe in textile sector, is progressing in the textile machines exportation field each passing day.
At the present time, Turkey is at the 18thplace among the countries which has manufactured world’s textile machines. Textile sector has quite important place in Turkish economy, so the way of getting stronger in textile sector is associated with manufacturing the country’s self machines and meeting self demands. At the same time, to enhance the exportation of Turkish textile machines and also to provide employment, the firms which operate in textile sector, should share their products and quality with the world by attending to the both domestic and international fairs. If we compare importation with exportation, importation is further. To improve this rate for our country, textile machine sector should manufacture to the world with high quality target by doing much more working than those done until now. Working should be accelerated to extendal so the markets, for which the sector has already worked. The way of increasing exportation is manufacturing value added products. To be able to compete with the world, It needs to concentrate on r&d activities. We can see that Turkish machine manufacturers have started to take a place in global competitive environment actively by all ocating resource for r&d activities and technological investments. Turkey can reach to the targeted export figure of 100 billion Usd in machine manufacturing sector at the year of 2023 by resolving the background problems quickly.
The textile machine exportation comprises 2 % of Turkish machine exportation. At the year of 2023, the textile machine exportation will reach to nearly 2 billion Usd, increasingly around 20 % rise for each year, so targeted total machine exportation of 100 billion Usd and also general exportation target of 500 billion will occur. Due to the features of Turkish firms as product development, elasticity of production, after sale importance, development on engineering; exportation will increase and also the opportunities for new markets will occur. Associated exporten couragement should be taken for the machines, which are not manufactured in our country and imported from abroad. And also protection measures should be taken for importation.
