The President of the Association of Mill and Sector Machinery Manufacturers, Mr. Zeki Demirtaşoğlu, continued his remarks with the history of the sector. Mr. Zeki Demirtaşoğlu, who gave information about the machines produced related to the sector and which sectors they belong to, gave information about domestic and international Sunday shares. Drawing attention to the importance of Industry 4.0 in the sector, Demirtaşoğlu underlined how important it is in today's industry to produce smart products with high added value in smart factories.
Although our sector is ahead of China in the position of exporter, do you see enough support in bureaucratic terms regarding the question of whether; Emphasizing that we have surpassed China in the sector and are the world leader, despite the fact that China is the world's largest economy and provides much easier access to raw materials, he stressed that the implementation of additional customs duties on mill materials from China in parallel with the “domestic and national” production policies of our state in order to maintain our current first place and determine a roadmap for October 2023 export targets will be an important step to protect the “domestic and national” producer.
Mr. President, who gave examples of customs duties from the world on this issue, added that our sector needs unconditional government support in this regard, but they do not see these supports in a bureaucratic sense. Underlining the importance of the participation of our government elders in international fairs, symposiums and organizations belonging to our sector, our President-General appealed to our bureaucracy on this issue.
Also touching upon the subject of raw materials, Mr. Zeki Demirtaşoğlu said that more of the foreign currency entering our country from exports can enter the country by producing value-added products, which can be possible by providing sufficient raw materials to the manufacturers of the sector. He pointed out that it is a more sustainable model for the sector to meet the raw material needs of the priority sector manufacturers and allocate the remaining part for export.
Regarding the export targets of the sector, he said that if the raw material needs are met by the specified method, the export figures of 2.2 Billion dollars will increase to 3 Billion dollars in 2023. Mr. Chairman, who also mentioned the contributions of the milling sector to education, gave information about the departments opened in pilot provinces under Vocational High Schools. He said that a protocol was made with the contributions of our current Minister of National Education, Mr. Mahmut Özer, and that our departments were opened in 3 cities and students were trained, scholarships and job guarantees were provided if students preferred this department, and our President, who also mentioned the negotiations between the Council of Higher Education and the mill technologies department, added that the negotiations were continuing.
Referring to DESMUD's vision of sectoral education, employment and qualified personnel, Mr. Zeki Demirtaşoğlu underlined that currently this need is being addressed by food and agricultural engineering departments and that milling is a branch of science in itself.
Stating that there is no school at the milling point in our country, our Chairman said that they want to establish a prototype campus / factory where sectoral education will be provided under the name of “Perfectionism Center” in line with our visionary goals and that they want to give courses on milling, raw materials and sectoral production, including foreign/international students at different levels.
Our President Zeki Demirtaşoğlu; If this project is realized, we will be in third place in this field in the world after America and Germany, he said. In addition to a land allocation related to this issue, if we have such a value with international project support funds and from our own budget, we will become an international prestige center and we will sign a project that can be useful to many institutions in every part of our country, he ended his words by saying.
