TürkTraktör, the joint venture between CNH Industrial and Koç Holding, celebrated the opening of its second manufacturing plant in Erenler, in the Sakarya region of Turkey recently.


CNH Industrial CEO Richard Tobin (far left) and Chairman of the Board of Koç Holding, Mustafa V. Koç (third from right), sign a New Holland tractor that will be manufactured at the second CNH Industrial and Koç Holding joint venture manufacturing plant in Turkey.

The new state-of-the-art facility, which extends over 222,000 sqm (68,000 covered), will raise the joint venture’s production capacity to 50,000 tractors per year for both domestic and export markets.

At the opening ceremony, which was held at the new facility, Richard Tobin, Chief Executive Officer of CNH Industrial, and Mustafa V. Koç, Chairman of the Board of Koç Holding, spoke about the significance of this event for Turkish industry and the important role of TürkTraktör in the country’s agriculture.

The event was attended by guests of honour the Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Isik and the Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekçi, and by the national media and trade press.