TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (MAM), which provides 55 thousand analysis services annually in 213 laboratories in 7 internationally accredited institutes, also offers industrial testing and analysis services to countries in Europe and Africa. Emphasizing that these analyses are of 1,200 different types, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Makaracı, Vice President of Strategy and Technology Development at TÜBİTAK MAM, stated that industrial testing and analysis services have started to come from Germany and Tanzania since the end of 2015.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Makaracı said, "In the requests from Germany, our center was preferred because the results of our institution were found reliable. For example, in one of the requests, tensile tests were performed on packaging straps in the mechanical properties laboratory, while in another request, the analysis of pharmaceutical active ingredients was carried out in our Institute of Chemical Technology. In the request from Tanzania, tests and analyzes of essential oil samples were carried out."
Stating that negotiations with 28 countries are ongoing, Vice President Assoc. Prof. Dr. Makaracı stated that they have prepared a catalogue in English in order to explain these test and analysis services to institutions and organizations abroad and continued as follows: "The services we provide abroad are not limited to Germany and Tanzania. We are in talks with Senegal, Gambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Pakistan, Malaysia, Palestine, Jordan, Somalia, England, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ghana, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Jamaica, Tunisia, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago and Denmark. We expect requests from these countries in the near future."
Explaining that TÜBİTAK MAM carries out R&D activities on an international scale, Makaracı said that they plan to increase these R&D collaborations with the test and analysis services they provide abroad, and emphasized that they aim to contribute to closing the current account deficit of our country by offering these services abroad.
