PIMAPEN, which started the operations of ENWINRUS with 15 million dollars of investment, is targeting the leadership in the countries of the region.

PIMAPEN, which introduced PVC windows in Türkiye 25 years ago, carried its specialty over to Russia with ENWINRUS. PIMAPEN, which mounted the first window in Moscow 19 years ago and which started window production in Moscow 13 years ago, is targeting the countries such as Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Belarus besides Russia with ENWINRUS that started its activities in Rostov after an investment of 15 million dollars.

PIMAPEN General Manager Oktay Alptekin, who gave information to Turkish journalists about ENWINRUS, the production plants of PIMAS in Rostov, which is one of ENKA Group establishments, said, "Southern Russia is always a lively market where we draw attention. According to our evaluation, Rostov region is a region of chances with a brighter future and provides many advantages for the investors. We wish that the investment which we realized in the region would set an example for the new investors.".

20 thousand tons capacity
Alptekin stated that ENWINRUS, which started its operations with an investment of total 15 million dollars including 10 million dollars of land, building and machinery investment and the operating capital, has currently an annual production capacity of 6 thousand tons and he underlined that this figure can easily be raised to annual 20 thousand tons. Alptekin said, "It is possible to raise the production to 25 thousand tons with high capacity machines."

According to the information given by Alptekin, 40 people are working in ENWINRUS currently. However, the number of employees will be raised first to 60, then 100. In addition to these 100 employees, who work only in profile production and distribution work, it is expected that the total number of employees would reach 1800 - 2000 including the employees who will work in the workshops to produce doors and windows by processing the profiles and in the mounting groups.

The target is 40 percent growth
Alptekin, who reminded that the demand increase in PVC windows in Russia would be around 35% for a few years, continued, "We are thinking of growing faster than the market. Our target as ENWINRUS is to achieve annual 40 percent growth in a market where 35 percent growth is expected."

'We forecasted the future well'
Alptekin underlined that PIMAS forecasts Russia's future well and said that they had mounted the first window in Moscow 19 years ago and started the window production in Moscow 13 years ago. Alptekin, who emphasized that PIMAPEN is among the leading companies which provided the recognition and the spread of PVC windows in Russia said, "As of today, we will continue our activities, which we conducted through our logistic centers in 9 different cities with imported products until today, by realizing our own production in our plants in Rostov."

'Windows are produced in-place'
Alptekin who also provided information about the production plants, said, "PVC window sector is a local sector. Windows are produced at the place where they will be mounted. Konya's windows are produced in Konya and Istanbul's windows are produced in Istanbul. Türkiye's profiles are produced in Türkiye and Germany's profiles are produced in Germany. The countries, to which this sector imports, are either at the stage of transition and the general industrialization level of the countries are low or they just met this product and importing it for a temporary period. The production is realized in the domestic market after a while anyway.".

Alptekin who told that the import of PVC window first started with the import of window then afterwards this was quickly converted into profile, continued his words, "Since everybody will produce their own profiles in future, Türkiye will face problems in the export. For this reason, if we want to exist in those markets as a medium and long-term target, it will be required to be producers. As a first step for this, we started profile production in Russia, if the conditions are appropriate we can also invest in other countries. We are window experts. We desire to grow outside of Türkiye also in this field, so that we can achieve our vision to be a global company which is a leader in the international markets."