01 · Nearshore Supply
Why Turkey, Why Nas
European supply chains are moving closer to home. Turkey is Europe's second largest plastics producer, inside the EU Customs Union, 3-5 days by road from the EU border. This page sets out the case with sourced numbers, and answers the questions buyers actually ask.
02 · The Nearshoring Reality
Supply chains are moving. The data is not subtle.
Nearshoring is no longer a trend piece; it is procurement policy. 56% of large European and US organizations are already investing in nearshoring or reshoring, up from 42% a year earlier, and 65% are actively reducing their dependence on China.1 German companies moved operations abroad 153% more often in 2018-2025 than in the previous eight years, and about 70% of those moves went to Central and Eastern Europe.2
That last number matters. The default nearshore destinations are filling up. Buyers who started this search in 2020 went to Poland and Czechia. Buyers starting today find rising wages, tight capacity and long lead times in the same postcodes. The question has shifted from "should we nearshore?" to "where is there still room?"
03 · Turkey's Cards
What Turkey brings to the table
Zero customs, since 1996
Turkey and the EU operate a Customs Union for industrial goods. Plastic parts ship with an A.TR movement certificate and cross the border with zero customs duty. No tariff line, no quota, no origin gymnastics.
3-5 days by road
Truck freight from western Turkey reaches the EU border in 3-5 days. Compare that with 4-6 weeks on the water from Asia, plus port risk. Our Torbalı plant works next to the port of Izmir for sea and intermodal options.
Europe's second largest plastics industry
Turkey produced 9.9 million tonnes of plastic products in 2024 and exported to around 200 countries; it ranks second in Europe and sixth in the world.34 This is not an emerging supply base. It is an established one with deep raw material, toolmaking and logistics infrastructure around it.
A working automotive ecosystem
Turkey is the EU's third largest vehicle supplier, with 41.5 billion dollars of automotive exports in 2025.5 IATF 16949 discipline, PPAP paperwork and Tier-1 audit culture are daily practice here, not imported concepts.
Your working day is our working day
Turkey runs 1-2 hours ahead of Central Europe. A question sent from Stuttgart at 09:00 is answered the same morning, by engineers, in English. No overnight loop, no translation layer.
04 · Turkey vs Filled CEE Capacity
An honest comparison with Poland and Czechia
We will not pretend the CEE countries have no advantages. They do: EU membership, one-day trucking to Germany, near-zero perception risk. If your part is small, your volumes are modest and a Polish supplier has an open press for you, that can be a fine choice.
Here is the honest scorecard:
| Criterion | Turkey | Poland / Czechia |
|---|---|---|
| Customs | Customs Union, zero duty with A.TR | EU internal market |
| Road freight to Germany | 3-5 days | 1 day |
| Capacity availability | High, including large tonnage | Filling up; ~70% of German relocations already landed in CEE2 |
| Wage trajectory | Cost advantage vs Western Europe | Rising quickly |
| Automotive / IATF ecosystem | Very strong, OEM production base | Strong |
| Appetite for new projects | High | Selective at capacity |
Our case is not "Turkey instead of Europe". It is capacity and cost headroom where CEE is running out of both, with the same quality management grammar: IATF 16949, PPAP, APQP, SPC, 8D. And where CEE presses top out for large parts, our envelope runs to 1,100 tonnes of clamping force and 120-litre blow molded parts.
05 · Fair Questions
The questions buyers ask about Turkey. Straight answers.
"Is the logistics chain reliable?"
Road freight between Turkey and the EU is a mature, high-volume corridor; Turkish industry moves tens of billions of dollars of goods across it every year.5 We quote with explicit Incoterms, agreed packaging specifications and confirmed transit times, so delivery performance is measured, not assumed.
"Will batch 40 look like batch 1?"
This is a process question, not a geography question, and we answer it with process: batch-level traceability from resin lot to shipped box, SPC on critical dimensions, a Certificate of Analysis with shipments that require one, and 8D discipline when something does go wrong. Our quality system has been audited under IATF 16949 since 2010. Details and certificates are on our Quality page.
"What about currency and economic volatility?"
A fair concern, and one your finance team will raise. Export pricing and contracts in this industry are typically agreed in EUR or USD, and commercial terms are fixed in the quotation before tooling starts. What you should evaluate is the supplier, not the macro headline: audit us, test us with a part, and judge the delivery record.
"Will communication actually work?"
You will deal with named engineers on corporate email, in English, in your time zone. DFM feedback comes as annotated engineering commentary on your CAD file, not as a yes-to-everything sales reply.
06 · Export Operation
How our export operation works
No slogans in this section; just the mechanics a purchasing team needs to verify.
01
Incoterms stated on every quote.
We quote EXW, FCA or delivered terms as your logistics setup requires, with the cost breakdown visible.
02
A.TR documentation handled in-house.
Movement certificates, invoices and packing lists are prepared as standard export routine, not as an exception.
03
Packaging engineered per part.
Packaging specification (carton, separator, pallet pattern, labeling) is agreed at quotation and locked before serial production, so what was approved is what arrives.
04
Two plants, one system.
Torbalı (Izmir, port logistics) and Manisa OSB (inside Turkey's home appliance manufacturing cluster) run under the same quality system and the same accountability chain.
07 · Why Nas
Why Nas, specifically
Turkey answers the "where". Nas answers the "who". The country argument above applies to a whole supply base; what narrows it to us is the chain: mold design and toolmaking in the group (KAMAS, since 1996), injection molding from 90 to 1,100 tonnes, extrusion and blow molding to 120 litres, assembly and in-line testing, all under one roof and one point of accountability, with IATF 16949 discipline since 2010.
Nearshoring only pays off if the total cost works: part price, tooling, freight, customs handling, quality cost, engineering time, and the cost of a delay you did not plan for. A single accountable partner takes several of those lines off your risk register at once. That is the calculation we invite you to run with us.
08 · RFQ
Theory is cheap. Send us a part you are sourcing today: upload your STEP file with annual volumes and target dates, and get a technical response from our engineering team, with Incoterms and assumptions stated in writing.
A technical reply, not a sales one.
Run the numbers on a real part
Sources
- 1.Capgemini Research Institute, 2025: Büyük AB/ABD şirketlerinin %56'sı nearshoring/reshoring yatırımında (2024: %42); %65'i Çin bağımlılığını azaltıyor. https://www.capgemini.com/in-en/news/press-releases/large-european-and-us-organizations-are-prioritizing-reindustrialization-investments-over-short-term-profitability/
- 2.ING Think: Alman firmaların off/nearshoring hamleleri 2018-2025'te 2010-2017'ye göre +%153; taşınmaların ~%70'i CEE'ye. https://think.ing.com/articles/global-tensions-no-major-reshoring-in-eurozone-businesses/
- 3.PAGEV, 2024/2025: Türkiye 9,9 milyon ton plastik mamul üretimiyle Avrupa 2., dünya 6. https://blog.machinetotal.com/turkiye-plastik-sektor-izleme-raporu-yayimlandi/
- 4.PAGEV/PLASFED, 2025: 2024'te ~200 ülkeye toplam ~15 milyar USD plastik ihracatı (doğrudan 7,5 milyar USD). https://www.fuardergisi.com.tr/plastik-sektoru-2024te-200-ulkeye-15-milyar-dolarlik-ihracat-gerceklestirdi
- 5.OSD, 2026: Türkiye otomotiv ihracatı 2025'te 41,5 milyar USD; Türkiye AB'nin araç ihracatında 3. tedarikçi. https://www.osd.org.tr/haberler/231