The Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting of the Plastic Industrialists Federation (PLASFED), one of the largest representation platforms of the Turkish industry, was held on June 20, 2019, in Istanbul with significant interest from plastic industrialists. Representatives from a total of 1,306 plastic industry businesses, including the Ankara Plastic Industrialists Association, the Bursa Plastic and Packaging Industrialists Association, the Aegean Plastic Industrialists Solidarity Association, the Kayseri Plastics Operators Association, the Composite Association, and PAGDER Plastic Industrialists Association, participated in the PLASFED General Assembly meeting, where the new management and audit boards for the 2019-2021 term were also elected.
In the voting held, Ömer Karadeniz was unanimously elected as the chairman of the management board. In a speech following his election, Ömer Karadeniz stated, "We are taking over the management in a challenging period for Turkey and our industry. I believe it is essential to adopt a more proactive approach to the issues facing the industry during this process. We will focus on addressing the sector's problems related to access to finance, the lack of qualified personnel, and benefiting from public incentives, both in terms of public authorities and umbrella organizations. Furthermore, we will work to properly communicate the material of today and the future, plastic, to the public."
The management and audit board members formed as a result of the general assembly are as follows: Ömer Karadeniz (President), Şener Gencer (Vice President), Tolga Kutluğ (Vice President), Yusuf Özkan (Treasurer), Mehmet Hakan Atalay (Secretary), Selçuk Gülşün (Management Board Member), Kazım Sertdemir (Management Board Member), Ayhan Çatalkaya (Management Board Member), Hakan Efe (Management Board Member), Tarık Özdemir (Management Board Member), Teoman Arıkan (Management Board Member), Kenan Benliler (Audit Board Member), Hüseyin Yücel (Audit Board Member), Selçuk Erdem (Audit Board Member).
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