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Miray Demir
Ahmet Buğra Yaman
Törehan Şentürk
Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
Semih Ceyhan
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Since most of the senior management team consists of women, the machining waste they produce is recycled and brought back to the company with UN certificates. The recycling project and gender equality practices implemented by Dora Makina within its operations continues to grow without producing waste and without gender discrimination, contributing not only to diversity in the defense industry but also to the environment and the world.
Dora Makina works to address concerns about environmental pollution, waste, and gender inequality, which are among the biggest problems in the world. In addition to producing key products for the defense industry, the company implements recycling practices to prevent environmental pollution and waste production. The company includes the waste generated from the produced products but also the daily waste generated by employees in its recycling project and has obtained certifications in this regard. Furthermore, to highlight gender equality, the company employs women in managerial and supervisory positions. The company operates with the understanding that "the person who knows the job deserves the position."
The leader who has been working in the field of defense for years became more interested in being behind this production and creation plan. He realized that the leader within a company should advocate for people who deserve the job if they had the right skillsets, wanted to establish his own production factory to work on this issue. Since he wanted to contribute to the defense industry of the Republic of Turkey, he has helped many defense companies after establishing this machining factory. The leader, who advocates that women should be present in every field, employs women in most senior positions in his company. After learning that the waste produced from machining, which harms nature and disrupts the structure of minerals in the soil, must be recycled, has put this into practice by obtaining the necessary certificates and collaborations in its factory. While contributing to his country, he also strives to make the world a better place and help eliminate many problems. After seeing the injustice and gender-based discrimination that people face in their workplaces, he wanted to draw attention to these problems in her own company in order to put a stop to them. Learning that companies can also do a lot to save the world, the leader strives to make the world a better place to live for future generations. He wants to work with CERN, the nuclear research center, and move forward in line with ethical principles in order to achieve his goal of expanding to all corners of the world.
Dora Makina was established in 2004 and is a company that produces machinery, equipment, machining and spare parts in accordance with the required standards for the aviation, defense industry and medical sectors. Within the scope of their innovations, they have become one of the leading companies in their field in Turkey, in the defense industry world, with the pride of being the first Turkish company to receive a job offer from CERN. More established companies since the day they were founded. The company, which currently operates in Turkey, wants to spread the products it produces all over the world in the long term. Its mission is to reduce the foreign dependency of the Republic of Turkey within the scope of defense industry and medical needs and to train experts in these fields. Dora Makina, which has been in this sector for 20 years, cooperates with ROKETSAN and ASELSAN, one of the leading companies of the defense industry of the Republic of Turkey. While carrying out these collaborations, it creates plans to meet its energy with the solar system it will install in order to minimize the damage to the environment. Dora Makina, which has started to take the necessary steps in this regard, aims to switch to an economical system in the future, thanks to the energy systems it will install on the roofs of its factories. At the same time, in order to create zero waste, the company is carrying out a project to recycle every product used by its employees.
Dora Makina has increased its income by collaborating with companies working in the Defense Industry in the Turkish market and producing spare parts for the products they produce. Medical products and parts started to be produced in order to enter the new product market. Expanding these produced medical parts and products abroad is among the goals. The company and employees are working on recycling and solar energy. In order to increase the welfare and comfort of the employees, a new factory building was built to house two different buildings and campuses in a single main building. In this building, employees can work together comfortably and occupational health and safety, which cannot be fully ensured due to the transition between buildings, has been made more orderly. As Dora Makina expanded its operations and working areas, it also increased the number of its employees to 175. After their collaboration with CERN, they have expanded into the European market. At this point, by obtaining recycling projects and certificates in accordance with European standards, they have minimized the damage caused by the company to nature and they continue to work in this field.
Dora Makina creates a significant amount of recyclable waste by producing using metal, plastic, machining, and aluminum materials. Claiming that it attaches great importance to environmental health, the company contributes to the 'Zero Waste Project' by collaborating with recycling and waste management companies. They argue that recycling waste provides them with both financial benefits and environmental awareness. The products they put on the market within the scope of the localization project enable Turkish people to access them more easily in terms of cost and transportation. The company, which currently employs 175 people, aims to provide social benefit to our country with greater employment targets in the future. The company also draws attention to women's rights and gender equality and employs female employees in important senior management positions. They attach great importance to collaborating with university students and sharing their experiences in order to provide ideas and experience to university students. The company strives to reduce the external dependence on the Defense Industry of the Republic of Turkey and produces every product needed within the scope of 'Zero Waste'.
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Özlem Sağlamyürek, Quality Management Specialist
Operating in our country's space and aviation sector, Dora Makina contributes to reducing the external dependency of the sector by producing technology-oriented services and solutions, taking into account sustainable waste needs, and applying the technical competence and technological capabilities it has gained. It offers the civil sector the management of this process in line with the principles. It produces spare materials and machining in line with the needs of defense industry companies in the Republic of Turkey. Dora Makina applies a 3-stage quality control process throughout the production process.