Last reviewed: 10 September 2026
Türkiye has a broad manufacturing base in construction materials: from cement and steel to tiles, from door and window systems to mechanical services, most lines are produced domestically. For a buyer the hard part is not finding a manufacturer but writing the right specification and gathering the lines into one shipment. This guide covers both.
What your list should state
"White tile, 60×60" is not a specification; quotes against that description will each be a different product and will not compare. The way to get a correct price is to write the line so it can only mean one thing.
- Size and thickness: not just the face dimension but thickness and, where relevant, the profile section.
- Class or standard: the applicable EN or TS number where required, strength class, fire class.
- Quantity and unit: square metres or packs, how many packs, any tolerance.
- Where it will be used: interior or facade, wet area or not — the same product exists in different classes.
- Brand preference: state it if you have one; if not we propose an equivalent, but say what the equivalence should be measured against.
Reading the standards: CE, EN and TS
CE is not a quality prize; it is a declaration that the product conforms to the relevant European legislation, accompanied for construction products by a declaration of performance. EN tells you which test method the product was measured against, TS refers to the Turkish standard, and most TS numbers are aligned with EN. Your destination country may require its own standard — in Nigeria, Kenya and Saudi Arabia the conformity programmes come into play. We state in the quote which standard the offered product is built to, so you can compare it with your own regulation.
Gathering a project into one shipment
A site never needs one category alone: the same floor calls for tiles, doors, cable, sockets, pipe and safety equipment. Buying them separately means five suppliers, five invoices, five shipments and five customs entries. Consolidation reduces all of it to one container, one invoice and one declaration. Loading order follows from that: heavy lines at the bottom, fragile ones protected, whatever is needed first nearest the doors.
Four common mistakes
- Ordering from a photograph. A photo shows colour; it does not show thickness or class.
- Ignoring packaging and wastage. Cutting and breakage on tiles, or coverage differences in paint, leave the list short.
- Not stating the destination voltage, frequency and socket type for electrical items. The same appliance is built differently for different markets.
- Skipping samples. On lines where appearance matters — tiles, paint, facade panels — a pre-production sample removes the entire argument that would otherwise come later.