About Us

ChemOrbis is a technology enabled sourcing and selling platform offering a set of complementary services to ensure and improve your profitability.

Vision

Our Vision
To become an all-inclusive indispensable resource to the global plastic industry to sell and source profitably.

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Value Proposition

In a market that constantly fluctuates, you have to sell and source at the right time to make money. However, knowing the right time isn’t enough on its own. You should also be able to execute in an efficient, timely and cost effective manner once opportunities present themselves.
Our services not only allow you to follow markets closely so that you know when to transact, but also to capitalize on the opportunities.

It’s all about timing!

STRATEGIZE
We help our members in strategizing their sourcing and selling activities through our Market Intelligence services so that they can source and sell profitably.
With ChemOrbis Market Intelligence, our members can:

Source and sell at the right time in the cycle to gain best price
Take advantage of price differences between and within markets
Improve negotiation power by knowing the market

EXECUTE
We also offer our members industry specific trading tools to execute their sourcing and selling strategies in a fast and efficient way.
With ChemOrbis Trading Tools, our members can:

Reach existing and new potential business partners faster and cheaper
Improve credibility by being a part of a prestigious and refined community
Expand business partner base without limits

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Our History

ChemOrbis was first established in Turkey in March 2001. Turkey was chosen because of its status as the world's second largest spot importer of plastics raw materials, following China. Therefore, it was the perfect starting point for introducing trading tools and market intelligence vital to the spot market. ChemOrbis also launched naturally into the international trade of plastics because of Turkey's great reliance on imports from around the world.

Having achieved its mission to become a reference for the plastics industry in Turkey, ChemOrbis intensified its presence globally by establishing local offices located in key polymer markets of the world. Having launched its international expansion plan in 2005, ChemOrbis now reports the East Mediterranean from its Istanbul Office, North & West African Markets from its Cairo Office, the Italian market from its Milan Office, while covering the Far & South East Asian Markets from its Shanghai & Kuala Lumpur Offices.

ChemOrbis has long prided itself on its personal touch with members the world over. ChemOrbis has made enormous progress in establishing an international community under its umbrella, and has become a unique hub for global market players.

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Investors

ChemOrbis is a subsidiary of iLab Ventures (“iLab”), the venture capital arm of AccessTurkey Capital Group which is focused on early-stage through late-stage growth equity investments primarily in on-line consumer services companies and technology driven business services companies.

iLab’s objective is to create value by building lasting partnerships with exceptional entrepreneurs. iLab provides its portfolio companies with the capital, industry expertise, and a broad network of industry specific relationships to help build its portfolio companies into industry leaders. To achieve this goal, iLab invests in companies with compelling growth opportunities and partners with talented management teams who are looking for more than just capital.

iLab’s early focus on the internet in Turkey and subsequent successes across its portfolio companies has earned iLab the reputation for being a powerhouse of investments in on-line businesses in Turkey. iLab’s incubation experience and subsequent success coupled with the synergy, strength and market defining characteristics of our portfolio companies has cemented iLab’s place as the premier venture capital firm in Turkey.

For more information, please visit http://www.accessturkey.com/EN/VC_overview.htm

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International Partnership Opportunities

We are interested in discovering the untapped resources in potential business areas. ChemOrbis welcome ideas to generate synergy in partnerships with:

strategic investors of internet technologies
already established firms in the petrochemicals industry that aim to expand into the geographical areas and/or product range covered by ChemOrbis
firms from a range of sectors, e.g. logistics, insurance or manufacturing of molding machines, that might create value from serving the refined global community that ChemOrbis houses.

If you have ever considered conducting business the way we do, contact us.

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Neutrality Policy

ChemOrbis is not involved directly or indirectly in any kind of trading activity. Therefore it is a 100% independent party providing market information and trading platforms without any commercial interest on either side of trading activities.

Our neutrality is what contributes most to the superiority of our market intelligence: It allows us access to all market players, and to report to our subscribers with insight from all sides.

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About Team & Management

Our Team is comprised of professionals with expert knowledge in the field. From the best technical skills to the best management intellect, ChemOrbis has it all, to ensure that your company gets the best service extended over the internet.

About Management
ChemOrbis Managers are professionals with a rich knowledge base.

Mustafa Erhan Say, Chairman
Founder of iLab Ventures, Mustafa E. Say has 16 years of global trading experience in petrochemicals. He started his career at GE Trading, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. in New York,, where he held a variety of positions. Mr. Say then moved on in his career as a Senior Vice President for Petrochemicals at Vinmar International, Houston, a well known international petrochemicals and plastics trading company. At Vinmar, Mustafa E. Say established and managed the petrochemicals trading division. During his tenure, he built a petrochemicals business with a volume in excess of US$300 million per year in sales and in excess of 1 million tons per year in physical product trading globally.

Alp Özdenler, General Manager
Alp Özdenler is a seasoned executive with in-depth plastics industry and technology expertise. With over a decade of experience in plastics industry before starting at ChemOrbis in 2002, Alp Özdenler worked for Egeplast Ege Plastik Ticaret ve Sanayi A.S. (Izmir, Turkey), a leading firm in Turkey's plastics sector. He is well versed in global trends in the plastics industry, and in transacting business worldwide.

Kim Yasa, Market Intelligence Director
Kim Yasa joined ChemOrbis from the start, after years of experience in the technology sector as a Business Analyst developing solutions for the financial industry at Thomson Financial Services, Boston, MA, USA. In Turkey she worked as a consultant researching the growth of the internet at IBS Research & Consulting, Istanbul. At ChemOrbis, she oversees the Market Intelligence division keeping members on top of global price trends.

Mirza Kadic, Business Development Director
Mirza Kadic had been working as part of the ChemOrbis team almost since its establishment in 2001, first in Supplier Relations, then Sales Manager and later as Overseas operations Director until March 2010. Since 2003, he had been involved in the company's international expansion and had overseen key International Accounts. After a year and a half long pause, while taking V.P. Global Business Operations post in the İnternational (polymers) trading and distribution company in Dubai (UAE), Mirza rejoined ChemOrbis as of September 2011 in capacity of Business Development Director. Mirza has vast experience in the fields of International Commodity Trade since 1992 and polymers processing, trade and distribution since 1996.

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Contact Us

For further information and comments: info@chemorbis.com
For Customer Support: cs@chemorbis.com
For Market Intelligence: content@chemorbis.com
For Advertisement: advertise@chemorbis.com
For contact details of our regional offices, please check our offices worldwide.