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Sadettin İnan - As reverberations continue over Konya Şeker's (Torku) sale of its chocolate production lines to Elvan Gıda, efforts to legitimize the sale have brought forth new questions. The claims that "the machines were not working, they were sold for renovation" contradict sector realities and economic logic. Related News: "Great Collapse" at Konya Şeker: Ramazan Erkoyuncu starts selling production lines! Following the sale brought to the agenda by Tarımdan Haber, certain local media outlets published "disposing of idle equipment for cash" news aimed at absolving the management. However, the Konya Şeker management's attempt to steer public opinion through "unnamed officials" instead of making an official and signed statement on why these facilities, which belong to the farmer, were sold, reveals the extent of the weakness. Local press reports claim that the sold lines had not operated at 5% capacity for 10 years. This raises the following questions: Why Did Elvan Gıda Buy? If ...

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Sadettin İnan - Once the pride of Turkey's domestic and national production, Konya Şeker (Torku), is facing the most severe management weakness and economic crisis in its history. It has emerged that Ramazan Erkoyuncu, who has been in office since disabling strategic investments under the name of "savings," has been selling off the massive production lines one by one at the chocolate factory, which is described as the "production heart" of Torku. At the chocolate factory, the most critical facility that transforms beet sugar into value-added products, the soft candy line, hard candy line, and fully automatic depositor line, which makes precise portions, were sold to Elvan Gıda for a controversial price of 139 million liras including VAT. While Elvan Gıda incorporated these lines to strengthen its production network, the fact that a world-class brand like Torku dismantled the technology in its own factory and sold it to a competitor raised questions about whether an internal ...