{"id":1243,"date":"2019-04-03T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hpt.com.tr\/stajyer-olarak-basladi-firmanin-sahibi-oldu\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T06:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T06:26:40","slug":"started-working-as-an-internee-then-he-owned-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpt.com.tr\/en\/started-working-as-an-internee-then-he-owned-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Started working as an internee, then he owned the company"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started when he visited Hannover EMO Expo with a family friend businessman. The magical world of metal become leader also on his education life.<\/b><\/p>\n

First, he studied in a vocational high-school, and then machine technics. \u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l, who made a stride to his business life professionally in Germany, always focused on companies in \u0130zmir during his business trips. \u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l, with his older brother \u00d6zcan K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l, convinced Stellram in 1992 and HPT Hartner in 1996 to make investments in \u0130zmir. K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l enlarged his business on both companies and after the German shareholders of the HPT Hartner had retired, K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l have bought the entire company. \u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l now has new projects on his agenda.<\/p>\n

\u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l, a name has earned his first money in his uncle\u2019s jean factory by ironing when he was 12 years old and worked flawlessly since then. We have listened the life story and future plans from \u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l, who is one of the founders of HPT Hartner, a company that produces oil pump shafts for Europe\u2019s leader automotive manufacturers. After the earthquake in Gediz, K\u00fctahya in 1970, his parents have migrated to Germany as workers, stated K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l. And that was how the story started.<\/p>\n

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That Expo leaded his life<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy deceased father was a tailor. After the earthquake, he has migrated to Germany from Simav, K\u00fctahya. After a while, he also got us migrated to Germany. I started to elementary school there. As a representative of the second Turkish generation in Germany, I have faced a lot of difficulties. I have worked every summer in order to earn my own expenses since I was 12 years old. My father\u2019s fellow townsman and businessman friend, the deceased \u0130smail Tiryaki, always visited us during his business trips to Germany. Every time I asked him questions about his job. After one of the questions, he has taken me to Hannover EMO Expo when I was 14. I even acted as an interpreter there for him. That expo changed and leaded my life.<\/p>\n

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Germans retired, he bought<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l went for vocational school after the situation in the EXPO. Then he started working with a friend of \u0130smail Tiryaki. K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l said : \u201cAfter high school, I studied machine technics. It was nearly equal to a mechanical engineering study in Turkey. I started working in Stellram in 1987. When I was working there, I never thought of anywhere but Turkey for my career. I focused on companies in \u0130zmir during my business trips. After a while, I started to think : Why wouldn\u2019t we manufacture these pieces in Turkey? We convinced Stellram in 1992 to make investments in \u0130zmir on condition that we will hold the bigger part of the shares. Thus, we became a licensed manufacturer for Stellram. The performance that we showed with our business impressed Manfred Grunski, general director of Stellram and also a shareholder of HPT Hartner. Hence, we also convinced HPT Hartner to investments and in Aegean Free Zone, 1996, we have established a new company with my older brother \u00d6zcan K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l under the condition that we will have a small part of the shares. Today we are the licensed manufacturer of Stellram. After years, other shareholders of HPT Hartner, G\u00fcnter Hartner and Manfred Grunski, wanted to retire. We bought all of the shares of the company that we have worked for years and moved all the production from Germany to Turkey.\u201d.<\/p>\n

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16% from \u0130zmir<\/strong><\/p>\n

HPT Hartner provides 16% of Europe\u2019s oil pump shaft needs from \u0130zmir. \u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l said : \u201cHPT Hartner has a history of more than 30 years with 20 years in Turkey. When we went in action Turkey, we were only producing 3% for a customer. Now this rate is near 75%. In this journey that we have started with 7 workers, now we have more than 70 employees in two companies. In addition, we have enlarged our workshop from 210 square-meter to 3000 square-meter and our production rate from 3000 per week to 70000 per week. For any company that have a production problem, we can offer a solution.\u201d.<\/p>\n

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German Manufacturing Discipline<\/strong><\/p>\n

HPT Hartner possesses a strict German discipline. Factory manager is also a German had a part in establishment of some other factories in \u0130zmir. K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l added : \u201cEvery employee of HPT Hartner receive training in Germany. This is a prerequisite for us. Germans have a different system and we need that for succeed. Most of the German companies do not want to cooperate with Turkish companies due to fluctuation of EUR\/TRY exchange rate. However, since we have stability throughout years, we can maintain a stability with our prices and compete. We do not have competitors in \u0130zmir but many in Germany.\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Lean Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00d6zer K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckg\u00f6l remarks that a downturn is going on in both global and Turkey market and adds : \u201cForeigners wants stability and firmness in Turkey. One of our customers are Canadian and due to security reasons. BMW has a project for next year. They must come to Turkey and inspect our facility, but they abstain from coming. There was an increase in the global market until 2013, but then a stopover started. We are on a stage that no new projects cannot be carried out, but we are planning to produce for two more pump manufacturers.\u201d.<\/p>\n

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