K. PARALİK METAL İŞLERİ LTD.
Company Profile
1. History
The history of the company goes back to 1951 when first started operation as a blacksmith
in a small shop and then turned into a metal can production facility. The company then
moved to its existing location, expanded its production lines and services in other sectors.
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. is founded in 1979 as Production Company of solar energy
systems for water heating, water storage tanks and large containers. Since its foundation, K.
Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd has been the market leader protecting its core competencies and
respecting and considering the market forces and customer requirements.
2. Key Traits
Main competitive advantage of our company is its know-how gained thorough over 50 years
of service experience in producing solar energy systems according to specific needs of our
customers and provisions of existing infrastructures. Our Company does not only produce
and sell energy systems, water storage tanks or container, but also provides consultancy on
products themselves, set-up of the systems, assessment of existing foundation and
infrastructure, system development and design, operation, maintenance and safety.
3. Company mission
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. mission is to provide best quality services and products at best
prices for its customers based on the customer needs by applying and implementing best
available and environmentally friendly technologies, techniques and operations.
4. Statement of commitment to Global Compact Network
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. has been working to strengthen its core competencies and
develop a socially responsible approach so that it maintains its leadership in the market. The
commitment to provide quality services and products allow the company to adopt an
innovative approach to new technologies and systems and a protective approach at the same
time to the environment and social values. It is an obvious fact that living in such a small
community and in such a small geographic area with limited natural resources and operating
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in a relatively small market requires adoption of environmentally and socially sound
principles so that the activities and production becomes sustainable.
Our company principles have been developed over years and have the same ultimate aim
with and show strong similarities with Global Compact Principles related to human rights,
labour, environment and anti-corruption. K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. is committed to support
the core principles of Global Compact Network and ready to take necessary actions for the
implementation of the necessities of core principles and hereby in this report reiterate its
commitment.
Principle 6. Business should support the elimination of discrimination in respect of
employment and occupation
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. is committed to undertake necessary actions to and contest by all
means to prevent any kind of discrimination at the work force including but not limited to
the gender, age, ethnic origin, race and politics.
Systems developed
 Initial Assessment and Annual Performance Evaluation: Employment procedures
include the evaluation of competency and experience of applicants verbally and in a
written format. Each employee is being assessed in terms of their work performance
and their accomplishments at the end of a year of engagement with the company and
every promotion and educational needs are determined according to the evaluation
report produced.
Actions taken
 In order to prevent injustice and discrimination at the work force, an evaluation
committee is formulated. The committee follow the procedures and evaluates each
applicant and /or employee based on the evaluation form.
Outcomes
 In year 2004, the profile of personnel occupied with selling and marketing, customer
relations and accountancy was 30% women. In 2007, this number has raised to 70%
where discrimination between men and women has been overcome and employment
procedure was conducted regardless of gender issue but according to experience and
competency.
GRI indicator
 LA2, LA14, EC7
Principle 7. Business should support a precautionary approach to environmental
challenges.
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. is committed to undertake environmentally friendly actions
related to its sector and its production lines and operate in harmony with precautionary
approach and proximity principle.
Systems developed
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Internal Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Each foreseen investment project
and / or a modification to the production lines or operations include an internally
conducted EIA where the life cycle of the output / product, the effects of operation
on the biological, economic and social/ cultural environment, the potential risks and
the alternatives of the proposed system are assessed.
Actions taken
 A committee is formulated which has regular meetings whenever a new system and/
or new activity is under discussion. This committee acts as a consultation body and
facilitate communication / consultation with other stakeholders such as the Chamber
of Industry, the Department of Industry etc before any decision taken.
Outcomes
 All of the vehicles were subjected to gas emission tests and the ones failing to have
the threshold value (2 vehicles out of 7) were sent to local machinist for recovery.
 In the year 2005, investment decision which was to change the technology used for
producing the water tanks and large containers was made after producing a feasibility
study and an internal EIA at the same time.
GRI indicator
 EN 18.
Principle 8. Business should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental
responsibility.
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. is committed to adopt internationally best practices to promote
environmental protection and sustainable consumption of natural resources while continuing
to take actions to achieve economic development regardless of / above the community rules
and legislation.
Systems developed
 Company Environmental Policy: A company environmental policy has been developed
which includes basically the promotion of sector based initiatives and collaboration
with civil society organizations to protect the environment and to encourage the
protection of the environment, conciliating the environment with economy, ethics
and the community.
Actions taken
 Every year, our company gets involved in projects (1) to develop community
environmental consciousness; (2) to undertake initiatives for educational purposes;
(3) to create discussion platforms and to collaborate with other stakeholders (4) to
get involved in public private partnerships in order to mitigate negative effects of any
actions on the environment.
Outcomes
 Our company got in touch with a local company and bought services to recycle
Polyethylene (PE) waste materials and scraps, created at the end of production
process which is used as raw materials for the production of pots by another
company. 2 tonnes of PE waste material is being recycled per month instead of
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sending it to the local dump site even though there are no legally binding
infrastructures and / or regulations.
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Our company co - financed / sponsored two environmental projects in 2007:
o ‘Drop by Drop it Disappears (DDYO)’ Water Conservation/Awareness
Campaign: Our Company sponsored a water awareness campaign which
included distribution of different informative outreach materials with different
distribution mechanisms which includes tips on how to conserve water.
According to the surveys being conducted, the campaign reached the 60% of
the community.
Figure 1. A child from the primary
school where the launch of the
campaign conducted wearing a
“DDYO” campaign cap.
Figure 2. K. Paralik water tanks with campaign logo
o Cleaning our sites which have environmental, natural and cultural value: Our
Company sponsored the procurement of 30 units large PE waste containers
for organic waste disposal and 2
units metal recycling bins for
metals and plastic bottles in
collaboration with another local
company
operating
in
telecommunication sector. PE
containers and metal bins with
informative and educational signs
were located at a picnic site and
at three beaches where sea
turtles nests.
Figure 3. K. Paralik large container for waste
disposal.
GRI indicator
 EN 30.
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Principle 9. Business should encourage the development and diffusion of
environmentally friendly technologies.
K. Paralik Metal İşleri Ltd. is committed to encourage research and development to
determine best available techniques/technologies not entailing excessive cost, to improve its
processes and operations and to adopt environmentally friendly technologies in order to
minimize their negative effects on the environment.
Systems developed
 Informal Environmental Audit: Audit system allows determination of environmental
performances of production department and equipment and machines in terms of
energy, waste production, water consumption as well as other departments of the
company such as accounting, sales and marketing, research and development.
Actions taken
 The informal environmental audit is being conducted once in every year to identify
and understand the aspects of our plant that may have environmental implications
and to anticipate unexpected results. A checklist has been prepared which allows us
to think systematically about our own managerial goals and methods, our plans,
operations of the plant, our employees, our products and by-products, raw materials
and other input and local regulators.
Outcomes
 Our employees started to re-use the paper once it is used instead of throwing it into
the bins. Our company is reusing 5,04 gr of waste paper per month and helps to
prevent deforestation globally even though it is on a very limited scale.
 Our company replaced two machines with more energy efficient alternatives in the
production line for solar energy system production, namely metal bending machine
and automatic metal cutter machine in 2007. Operation of these machines allowed us
to save 0,1% of overall electricity consumption compared to the performances of
previous machines being used.
GRI indicator
 EN 2, EN 5, EN 6.
Yours faithfully,
Sibel Paralik
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