Deputy General Manager of Cen Kablo Guray…

Deputy General Manager of Cen Kablo Guray Ozkahraman Fiber Optic Solutions to the telecommunication sector from Cen Kablo.
By participating the ECOC conference and fair, Europe’s biggest and focused just on fiber that occurs in September of every year, Cen Kablo will be showing its goods. Ozkahraman answered our questions.
Can you give us information about CEN KABLO’ s corporate identity?
CEN KABLO, the 100% self-investment of CENAY Companies Group, put its signature under countless successes especially in the telecom sector, is found in 2001, built over 19,000 m2 open area, of which 6200 m2 is closed, is installed with modern machinery and laboratory. Expert staff in their subject, making no concessions on quality, in line with all kinds of standards and customer’s demand, spine (directly underground, induct, aerial), internal and external tight buffered (simplex, duplex, mini breakout, full breakout) fiber optic cables are produced. With the investments put into practice in 2010, the tube line that had a capacity of 12 fibers/tube is increased up to 24 fiber/tube and passed on to double wall (PBT, PC+PBT, PA+PBT) tube technique. With 460,000fibers/km capacity per year, cables up to 432 fibers are being produced in our facility.
What are your expectations from 2014? What kind of increase do you aim in your manufacturing and turnover?
Cen Kablo exports almost all of its production. Most of the export goes to the EU countries and Switzerland. The European economy is rejuvenating gradually. Both the Turkish Republics and the Arab countries are rattling. We are expecting our export to increase by 50% this year.
For which sectors are you producing for?
Cen Kablo produces only and only fiber optic cables. Many sectors such as telecommunications, security, visual media and countless others that are in need of data stream are in our area of interest. Therefore, we are in the position of producing all kinds of cables that meet specifications of these sectors.
Does your company budget for research and development? At what level are these works?
Just like in the production of copper cable, there are no stationary product standards in fiber optic cable production. However, there are standards in definitions such as the properties of raw materials or the pulling force. The customer specifies a structure according to his need and tells me to produce cables at these properties. Thus, whether it be Turkish Telekom, Superonline, Turksat or the Turkish State Railways, they all have a list of conditions specific to themselves. Cen Kablo has compliance certificates from all of these institutions. In this respect, every demand from customers is a new area of research and development for us in order to meet their needs fully.
What are your new products and projects in 2014?
By investing in cable connecting unit that we made just at the beginning of 2014, we have taken just another step on the way of presenting our customers with total solutions. Additionally, with the agencies we have gotten from both South Korea and the Czech Republic, we have started working and giving services in stocks about the subjects of active equipment, testing equipment and all fiber optic accessories and splitters. In this context, in the near future, we will be taking steps in giving services in both other types of fiber optic cable accessories and copper cable and copper cable accessories. Additionally, our new investments in our main production line that is fiber optic production, especially for tight buffer cables and micro cable productions, will continue.
What are your target export points for the next one year period?
We want to increase our presence especially in Germany. We have taken a long way with the contacts we got in touch within the last few years. We are attending the biggest ECOC conference and fair that is only focused on fiber occurs in Europe in September of every year. Experts from every sector from all over the world come here. We will try to get in touch with France.