On September 29th, 2011(Turkish Time), a Chinese company bridged the gap in Turkey's history that lacks of WHR Plant. On this very day, the WHR Project constructed by Sinome-EC for AKCANSA Cement Plant in Turkey was completed; it is the first WHR Project in Turkey's history, Sinoma-EC’s first WHR Project in Turkey, and also Germany Heidelberg Group’s first such project for its production lines. It is known that, when the WHR system starts to work, the cement plant could save energy for about 105 million kWh per year, annual savings of standard coal to be 36,000 tons, and reduction of carbon dioxide emission to be 60,000 tons.
Akcansa Cement Company is located in the suburb of Canakali in western Turkey, about 360 km from Istanbul. As jointly-owned cement company of the Turkish Sabanci Group and Heidelberg, it has two cement production lines, capacity are 5980T / D and 6600T / D respectively. With its strength in tailored energy-saving technology, Sinoma-EC won the EP bid of the project.
On September 29th, 2011, a grand opening ceremony was held in Akcansa cement plant. Chinese Ambassador to Turkey Gong Xiaosheng, Chinese Consul General in Istanbul Zhang Qingyang was invited to the opening ceremony, Governor of Canakali Mr.Huseyin Kulozu, Chairman of Sinoma Group Tan Zhongming, CEO of Sabanci Group Mr. Zafer Kurtul, and the Heidelberg Group CEO Mr. Scheifele, etc. also attended the ceremony and delivered speeches.
On behalf of Sinoma Group, Tan Zhongming expressed his congratulations to the successful construction of the project, he reckoned that Turkey has developed into the world's emerging economies, energy saving in cement industry and other industries have also achieved a great development; there is great potential for the development between China and Turkey in the economic and trade cooperation of the energy saving field. Sinoma Group is the only corporation that has a complete series of core technology and innovation system in non-metallic materials industry, with scientific research, design, manufacturing, construction, international trade integrated in one; it has become an innovative, international-based, value-based corporate group. Sinoma Group has seven listed companies and a number of national engineering research centers, Design and Research Institute, Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, measurement certification testing centers and national standards-setting bodies. Of which Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd. is an internationally competitive cement technology and equipment and engineering services provider, its market share ranks the first in the world, with projects covering for more than 60 countries and regions around the world. Sinoma International contracted five cement plant construction projects from Heidelberg Cement Group; these projects have been progressing well, with a number of them being put into operation with good effects. As one of Sinoma Group’s subsidiaries, Sinoma-EC is an integrated services provider that specializes in industrial waste heat power generation projects; it is also a waste heat power engineering contractor in China that is earliest in history, largest in scale, best in performance and strongest in competence. Equipping low-temperature waste heat power generation system for more than 300 cement kilns in the world, Sinoma-EC has also achieved great success in waste heat recovery of iron and steel, chemicals, metallurgy, carbon and many other industries.

Tan Zhongming said he hoped to continue to strengthen exchanges and communication with the Sabanci Group and other Turkish companies, and actively carry out various forms of mutually beneficial economic and technical cooperation and make new contributions for the development of Sino-Turkey economic and trade cooperation.

Both CEOs of Sabanci Group and Heidelberg Group said in their speeches that they are willing to work with Sinoma Group and its subsidiaries like Sinoma-EC and Sinoma International to strengthen cooperation and jointly expand the market share.

According to Hu Yeming, the President of Sinoma-EC, currently there are 6 WHR projects under Sinoma-EC’s construction in several Turkish cities, totally they have 43 overseas projects. The contract duration for the WHR Project for Akcansa cement plant is 19 months, but Sinoma-EC finished the project one month ahead of schedule to generate power, with more than 15% of increase in the power generation.

It is reported that contract of the project was signed on November 17th, 2009, while installation and commissioning completed on July 8th, 2011, and on July 9th, 2011, this WHR system successfully connected to the power grid and generate power; it is the first time that Sinoma-EC applied its integrated set of technologies in pure low temperature waste heat power generation system to the European cement production line. Hu Yeming also noted that the successful contract signing of the project, ushers in a new era for Sinoma-EC to promote its WHR technology and equipment to the European market, enables Sinoma-EC to gradually establish a good corporate image in the world market, and lays a solid foundation in the European market.

Before the completion ceremony, Gong Xiaosheng, Zhang Qingyang led the Chinese Embassy in Turkey and the Chinese Consulate General in Istanbul to express greetings to Sinoma-EC’s staffs at Akcansa cement plant, visited the project site with Tan Zhongming, and listened to the project progress report.

Gong Xiaosheng introduced the friendly relations between China and Turkey and the overall economic development in Turkey, he said that the Turkish boasted political stability, rapid economic development and strong economic strength, with its GDP growth of 6% for several consecutive years; having per capita GDP of more than $ 10,000, there is great potentials in its domestic market, especially in energy conservation field. He hoped that Sinoma Group and its affiliated companies could exert great efforts in developing the Turkish market - a springboard to European market, maintain long-term cooperation with competitive Turkish companies to occupy market shares in energy industry and other industries, and thus work as a paradigm for Chinese enterprises in establishing a cooperative model with Turkish companies.

Counselor of Chinese Embassy in Turkey Bai Bin, Commercial Counselor of Chinese Business Committee in Turkey Guo Chuanwei, the political department director of Chinese Embassy in Turkey Ren Huayou, Research Office Director of the Chinese Consulate General in Istanbul He Jiangchuan, vice president and secretary of the Board of Sinoma Holdings Gu Chao , vice president of Sinoma International Tong Laigou, vice president of Sinoma-EC Wei Wenhua, Chief editor of China Building Materials Journal Mengxian Jiang, and deputy editor of China Building Materials magazine Han Cuiying also attended the completion ceremony.