Company Background / History

Eczacıbaşı

Founded in 1942, Eczacıbası is a prominent Turkish industrial groupwith 46 companies, over 13,500 employees and a combined net turnover of € 1.9 billion in 2024.

The Eczacıbaşı Group’s mission is to be a pioneer of modern lifestyles that are healthy, high quality and sustainable.

Accordingly, the Group encourages each of its companies to surpass established standards and raise consumer benchmarks of product and service quality.

Through sponsorship and responsible corporate practices, it also promotes social and economic development that nurtures cultural and scientific activity, protects the environment and preserves scarce natural resources.

Esan

The Eczacıbası Group is one of Turkey’s foremost industrial mineral and metallic mineral producers and exporters through its natural resources company, Esan Eczacıbası Raw Materials.

Esan was established in 1978 to produce high quality raw materials for the ceramics sector. Later, it evolved into a leading industrial minerals producer and strong metal mining company. Today, we are one of Turkey’s top suppliers of industrial and metallic minerals.

Approximately 80 percent of our sales are to markets in over 45 countries around the world. In addition to our operations in Turkey, we have offices in Italy, Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan through which we manage our global sales and trading network.

Sustainability

Our innovative culture, the advance laboratory network at our operations with R&D Center, support our sustainability.