“SDR will be the symbol of quality”

Sometimes you feel the glow from people’s words, their care about their works, or from their eyes. We first met SDR Marble at Stona Fair 2020 in India. We saluted Abdullah Karaca, the board chairman of the company, and saw that glow in his eyes. At that moment we decided to get to know his company and story. SDR Marble is new. It’s a company that stepped into the sector in 2019 and made great progress in a short time. SDR Marble’s quarry is in Isparta, Sütçüler. At the forefront with its 750.000 cubic meter reserve and block productivity, the quarry produces Tundra Grey and William Grey which are called Tundra Grey and William Grey in China and India, relatively.

The company’s quarry investment is not limited to this only. They hold the licenses of four other areas and started their operations in one of them. The keyword of SDR Marble’s operations is R&D. Abdullah Karaca, the board chairman, associates the progress that they made in a short time with R&D. Karaca says, “Rules of taking over the lead in the competition are clear. Creativity and innovation. To be able to maintain our presence in the sector, we must constantly be in change and development. We looked for different fields in the sector in which we could create such differences in the sector and we reserved areas of different textures and colors.”

Then how is marketing going? At this point, Karaca mentions the quality of the product that they produce and continues, “In terms of texture and color, both William Grey and Tundra Grey are highly compatible for various applying fields. We’ve done well in China and India. Along with this, we export to many countries among which Italy, Taiwan, and Bangladesh are present. For the processed products, we are taking huge steps in the US, Australia, Canada and Europe. We thought that we had to increase our production capacity to meet all these marketing activities. We had a capacity of 40 tons a year. We have a target of 60 tons a year for the new field that we’ve opened. But still, the most important of all is the quality. For us, our brand is the symbol of our quality and we want to show that to everybody.