EKON is an international EPC contractor that builds complex industrial plants where every process demands precision.

Türkiye's largest blast furnace, built at the heart of an operating integrated iron and steel plant

We replaced a 50-year-old furnace with the steel shop on one side and the live No. 2 furnace on the other. Throughout, 220-metric-ton torpedo cars of molten iron at 1.300 °C kept running straight through the construction site. We lifted 230-metric-ton modules into place with 1.000-metric-ton cranes and lowered a telehandler inside the furnace shell to fit the stave plates. The structure came through the February 2023 earthquakes undamaged, and İsdemir lost no production. The furnace was tapping hot metal 45 days after technical acceptance.

We rebuilt a power station from the ground up as a combined cycle plant

The first Turkish contractor to take on a project of this scale on an EPC basis.

We converted Ambarlı's 300 MW oil-fired units into an 816 MW dual-fuel combined cycle plant. Projects of this kind are rare anywhere in the world; this one was delivered without a foreign contracting partner, entirely by Turkish engineering teams.

Türkiye's most efficient flue gas desulfurization plant

We built a turnkey wet FGD plant for both units of the 18 Mart Çan power station and integrated it into the running plant. It removes 98,5% of SO₂, and we stayed on for two years of operational supervision.

Delivered through a currency crisis, a pandemic, an earthquake and a mid-project technology handover

We built Eti Maden's 350.000 t/y sulfuric acid plant at Emet on a turnkey basis. By recovering waste heat from the process, the plant generates 15 MW of electricity, almost twice what it consumes. Midway through the project, the process technology scope had to be transferred to a new licensor, Ballestra. We managed that handover while construction and tie-ins to Eti Maden's operating facilities continued without interruption. In the three-day performance test, the plant met all eight guaranteed values, including output, purity, emissions and consumption, most of them with a margin.

The most critical guaranteed values

Türkiye's largest single-line cement plant of its day, completed in record time

Sanko Holding's 7.500 t/d Çimko Narlı clinker line was commissioned in 18 months. A plant of almost the same capacity, built directly across from it at the same time, was still unfinished after 36 months. Sixteen years later, on 6 February 2023, Pazarcık, where Narlı stands, was the epicenter of the first and most powerful of the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes. The damage assessment was carried out by what was then one of our group companies: the plant, including its 130-meter preheater tower, came through virtually unscathed.

A 7-meter gap for the cranes: rebuilding a fire-damaged 360 MW unit

At Afşin-Elbistan B, fire had wrecked Unit 2's boiler house above the +62 m level. The only crane access was a 7-meter gap between the Unit 2 and Unit 3 boiler houses. Into it we erected two luffing-jib tower cranes from our own fleet, chosen because they work almost vertically, the highest at +123 m. We removed more than 600 t of heat-distorted steel without compromising the structure, then erected over 720 t of new steelwork and two 340-metric-ton vapor filters and pulled 170 km of cable. At peak, 370 people were on site; the job took 1,15 million man-hours. Trial operation ran without a single stoppage attributable to our scope, the unit ran for 72 hours non-stop at full load, and provisional acceptance was signed with no punch list.

North Africa's most modern cement plant

For Carthage Cement, we built the 5.800 t/d clinker plant at Djebel Ressas, about 25 km from Tunis, in a consortium with FLSmidth. FLSmidth provided the basic engineering and critical equipment; detailed engineering, fabrication, civil works, erection and commissioning were ours. Construction ran through the Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia, during the most turbulent period in the country's recent history. We poured 110.000 m³ of concrete and erected 7.800 metric tons of structural steel and 12.500 metric tons of mechanical equipment. More than half of the 1.400-strong site workforce was Tunisian. Carthage Cement's 2013 letter of commendation records 4,45 million man-hours.

Türkiye's largest and most modern sugar factory of its day

Kayseri Şeker's largest investment, the Boğazlıyan Sugar Factory slices 10.000 metric tons of beet a day. We delivered it on a turnkey basis as the OYAK–EKON–PROKON joint venture, together with the French technology partners Fives Cail and Maguin. The 920.000 m² plant was brought into operation on 3 December 2006, 17 months after contract signature. It includes a 60.000-metric-ton horizontal sugar silo, a 20.000-metric-ton packed sugar store and a 2 × 8 MW power plant that generates its own electricity. Its first regular campaign processed 600.000 metric tons of beet into 81.000 metric tons of sugar.