
Arcelik A.S (Turkey) having operations in durable consumer goods industry with production, marketing and after-sales services, offers products and services around the world with its 23,500 employees (>1000 R&D Employees), 14 different production facilities in 5 countries, its sales and marketing companies all over the world and its 10 brands (Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Altus, Blomberg, ElektraBregenz, Arctic, Leisure, Flavel and Defy).
With our vision “Respects the Globe, Respected Globally”, environment-friendly products and production activities are in the core of our business.
Since 1993, Arçelik R&D is actively participating to EUREKA and EU Framework Programmes. With its ongoing 8 projects, including a Marie Curie CIG project started in 2012, Arçelik A.S. is the performance leader of Turkish Private Sector at EU Seventh Framework Programme.
Arçelik is Turkey’s leading producer of technology and patents. Developing its own technology and protecting technology with patents has become part of Arçelik’s corporate culture.
Average annual international patent application is 145 , more than 1/3 of all international patent applications from Turkey. Arcelik won 2nd prize of the Fraunhofer IP Management Award 2012. Arçelik became the only company from Turkey in the World International Property Organization’s listing of the top- 500 patent applicants, where it took the 95th place in 2010.
Arçelik R&D organization has expertise on its own products as well as on the engineering disciplines that are related to product functions; such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, vibration and acoustics, materials, electronic control, computer aided engineering.
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