German technology in Turkey

Largest AAC production line worldwide

 In Çorlu, in the vicinity of Istanbul, the world‘s largest AAC production line is getting closer to completion and will produce the first cake at the end of March 2011. Owner of this new Wehrhahn superSMART plant is AKG Gazbeton, one of the leading AAC producers in Turkey with its headquarters in Izmir.

AKG started producing AAC in 1990, named Cementas Hebel at that time, and set up the second Hebel plant in Kirikkale. The total production capacity of the existing plants comes close to 1 million m³/year. With this background and having in mind a new production site close to the heavily populated Istanbul area, it was clear that it needed to be big again, very big! 

After investigating carefully on possible suppliers, AKG considered Wehrhahn as the most experienced and most innovative supplier of AAC plants. AKG‘s experts and the Wehrhahn project team finally agreed on a detailed plant setup...

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