{"id":623,"date":"2018-01-03T09:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/?page_id=623"},"modified":"2019-05-29T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T09:24:17","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/about-us\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_id=&#8221;timeline&#8221;][vc_column][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1956&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamdi Bozbag <\/span><b>discovered the first Barite reserve of Turkey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Kahramanmaras and <\/span><b>established Barit Maden LTD Company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to make the first Barite production in Turkey.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1960&#8243;]<b>TAEK<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Turkish Atomic Energy Authority) was the first customer of the company. TAEK used the Barite on the construction of the nuclear reactor in the Nuclear Research Facility in Istanbul, Kucukcekmece due to the reason that it\u2019s a <\/span><b>non-radiation penetrated mineral<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1964&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barit Maden LTD <\/span><b>made the first Barite export of Turkey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1967&#8243;]<b>Ministry of Commerce<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has given a prize that symbolizes their admiration and conferment to Barit Maden LTD due to its contributions on the subjects of Turkish Barite\u2019s introduction on the international markets and increase of the country\u2019s export.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1971&#8243;]<b>Council of Ministers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has decided that the word of \u201c<\/span><b>Turk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d will be allowed to use within the title of Barit Maden Ltd.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1972&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamdi Bozbag discovered the Celestite reserves in Sivas and opened <\/span><b>Turkey\u2019s first Celestite mine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1973&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By transferring Barit Maden Turk LTD\u2019s all active and passives to <\/span><b>Barit Maden Turk A.S.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the company\u2019s legal entity got registered in Trade Register.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1974&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barit Maden Turk A.S. <\/span><b>made Turkey\u2019s first Celestite export<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and expanded its export in Europe, Japan and South Korea.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1976&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barit Maden Turk A.S., in order to make an accretion value to the Barite product, started the construction of <\/span><b>Turkey\u2019s first Barite concentrate and grinding facility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Bahce district of Osmaniye province.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1978&#8243;]<b>Company\u2019s head office <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been moved from Ankara to Istanbul.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1979&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barit Maden Turk A.S. has become <\/span><b>Turkey\u2019s first exporter company of grinded Barite<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Company\u2019s API grade product has found favor on global Petroleum Fields Service Provider (OSS) companies.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1980&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sivas\u2019s <\/span><b>first concentrate facility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which uses gravitational techniques has been established near the Celestite mines.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1992&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barit Maden Turk A.S. has started the production by the <\/span><b>micronized Barite facility with the world\u2019s biggest capacity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">regarding the use of Barite as filling material in paint industry.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;1997&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamdi Bozbag discovered the carbondioxide reserve which is volcanic origin, natural and with the highest purity possible in Kayseri and <\/span><b>established a natural carbondioxide liquidization facility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> near the wells in a short time. Facility has started liquid carbondioxide shipment to the carbonated beverage companies with its own tanker fleet under the brand \u201c<\/span><b>Bozkar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2000&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kayseri Carbondioxide Liquidization Facility has got <\/span><b>ISO 9001<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> quality certificate.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2002&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kayseri Carbondioxide Liquidization Facility has got <\/span><b>ISO 22000 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">food safety certificate.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2004&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kayseri Carbondioxide Liquidization Facility has got <\/span><b>ISO 18001<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> occupational health and safety certificate.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2005&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barit Maden Turk A.S., with the collaboration of ASCO has started <\/span><b>dry ice manufacturing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2007&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A<\/span><b>\u00a0separate\u00a0carbondioxide liquidization facility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been established in Bursa, Mustafakemalpasa in order to create logistic amenities in the regions of Aegean and Marmara.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2009&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supply and sales of the <\/span><b>components except Barite<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in drilling mud have been started.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2010&#8243;]<b>Turkey\u2019s first synchronical analysis unit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been installed to the Kayseri Carbondioxide Liquidization Facility.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=&#8221;2013&#8243;]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Barite concentrate and grinding facility in Osmaniye, <\/span><b>Bahce <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has got <\/span><b>ISO 9001<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> quality, <\/span><b>14001<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> environment and <\/span><b>18001<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> occupational health and safety certificates.<\/span>[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1956 Hamdi Bozbag discovered the first Barite reserve of Turkey in Kahramanmaras and established Barit Maden LTD Company in order to make the first Barite production in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"parent":726,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/623\/revisions\/788"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baritmaden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}