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Akana Engineering Chairman of the Board Köksal ÖZDEMİR: “In our 30th year, we trust in our experienced team, our strong production infrastructure and the references we have built to date, and we are moving strongly into the future.”

Among the SMEs that form the backbone of the defence and aviation sector, some carry out their own R&D in a specific field, create their own designs and manufacture them in-house. Akana Engineering, which set out in 1990, is one of these SMEs. With its work particularly on energetic material processes and equipment, the company is an experienced and reliable solution partner for the prime contractors operating in this field.

MSI Magazine spoke with Chairman Köksal Özdemir about Akana Engineering’s 30-year journey and its position in the sector today. Read the interview (in Turkish): https://lnkd.in/emyGDZb

As a result of the “Supplier Performance Evaluation” carried out by TAI, our company has been rated as a “SILVER” subcontractor. The evaluation took into account product quality, adherence to delivery schedules and programme tracking performance. The result means “Satisfactory Supplier, Meets Expectations”.

Forbes Türkiye featured Akana Engineering in an article titled “Every Design a First”. The article describes how the company, founded in 1990 and based at the Technology Development Centre in Ostim Technopark, Ankara, designs and manufactures equipment to meet the needs of leading defence companies – many of which are the first domestically produced examples in Türkiye.

The article also covers the company’s work on ammunition production machinery such as explosive mixers, its demilitarisation projects, and the engineering approach of founder Köksal Özdemir. The original article (in Turkish) is shown below.

Project Summary:

The project is part of the infrastructure work of a larger project aimed at bringing airbag technology – used in automobiles and not previously manufactured in Türkiye – to our country. The short-term goal of the company using the equipment is to export the bagged propellant, which becomes the final product through this equipment, to foreign manufacturers of airbag inflators.

Within the scope of the project, prototypes of airbag propellant cube-cutting and propellant bagging equipment were designed and manufactured. These machines are used to cut the propellant – which initiates the chain of reactions that deploys the airbag in a collision – to specific dimensions and then to bag it.
Objective: to acquire all technological capabilities related to airbag production.

Technological and Socio-Economic Gains:

The prototypes were sent to the production site where live propellant is cut and bagged, subjected to performance tests there and, through improvements based on the process capability (Cpk) values obtained in production, bagged propellant production was achieved successfully.

Furthermore, after the bagged propellant produced with this prototype equipment was exported in the 3rd period and approved by the importing company, ROKETSAN A.Ş. placed an order for 4 additional bagging machines. The company is currently exporting to the United States with 5 machines operating 24 hours a day.

Our company has been awarded the AS 9100 Rev C Quality Management System certificate for the aviation, space and defence industries.

15.05.2017 – Akana Engineering took part in IDEF 2017, the 13th International Defence Industry Fair, held in Istanbul on 9–12 May 2017.

The R&D Center Certificate granted to our company by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology.

Following an audit, Akana Engineering has qualified as an “ASELSAN Approved Design Subcontractor”.

The Special Award for Domestic Product Design, presented by ASELSAN, was handed to Akana Engineering R&D Director Köksal Özdemir by Murat Ertek, Electronic Design Manager of ASELSAN SST Power and Control Systems.

The system, whose avionics software was developed entirely by TAI, was launched from a launcher designed and manufactured by AKANA and TAI, and flown with the TJ90, Türkiye’s first indigenous jet engine developed by TEI. Tests were completed successfully using Karel’s original EGI as the inertial measurement unit and Tualcom’s national data link.

We have completed the delivery of the 500-Gallon Planetary Mixer for explosives, whose design, manufacturing and testing were all carried out in-house at Akana Engineering.

Dirinler Sanayi ve Makina A.Ş. introduced its new, 100% domestically produced Drinns-brand DCNC GF 653515-5 five-axis gantry-type CNC milling machine at a ceremony held at its factory in İzmir Atatürk Organized Industrial Zone.

The machine, designed to move simultaneously on five axes over a 6.5 m × 3.5 m × 1.5 m working envelope, is a product of Turkish engineers and technicians. As highlighted at the ceremony, it is delivered to Akana Engineering, where it will be used to machine high-precision parts for the defence and aerospace industries.

ASO 54th Year Awards – R&D Center of the Year

At the ASO (Ankara Chamber of Industry) 54th Year Awards Ceremony held on 22 January 2018 at the Presidential Complex with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 54 successful companies received awards, including ŞA-RA – one of Türkiye’s most successful industrial organisations – ASELSAN A.Ş. and Akana Engineering A.Ş.

ŞA-RA Energy Construction Trade and Industry Inc., chaired by our Chairman of the Board Mr. Şadi TÜRK, received awards in the “2017 Corporate Tax” and “Value Added Created” categories. The awards presented by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were received by our Chairman of the Board Şadi Türk.