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Manisa Chamber of Commerce Organized Industrial Zone makes every effort to contribute
to the integration of our economy with that of the world and conducts its studies
within the framework of the planned development model. It is favoured above other
OIZs due to its environmentally friendly approach, its infrastructural facilities
and other services it offers industrialists, together with the large industrial
plants that exist here.
A feasibility study was commissioned by the Turkish Union of Chambers and the Department
of Industry on the viability of establishing an Organized Industrial Zone at Manisa.
Following the positive outcome of this study the initiative to establish the Zone
was taken by the Manisa Chamber of Commerce with financial contributions from the
Manisa Stock Exchange in 1963. The following year the Manisa Organized Industrial
Zone Construction and Development Project was presented to the Ministry of Industry
and its viability was confirmed. On 1 June 1966 the credit commitment required by
the Ministry of Industry was signed by the Manisa Chamber of Commerce.
On 10 July 1966 a loan agreement was signed between the Halk Bank and the Manisa
Chamber of Commerce.
The loan enabled the purchase of land plots and on 15 March 1968 the infrastructure
construction was put up for tender; construction started in July 1968. From January
1970 onwards land appropriations were offered to the industrialists.
In 1986 the zone reached an occupancy rate of 90%. It was then planned to enlarge
the Zone leading to cabinet decision No. 86/11/03 being issued on 14 October 1986.
Following this cabinet decision land was purchased in the area where Phase II of
the zone was to be created and purchase was completed shortly after.
In November 1989 a contract was signed for the infrastructure construction of Phase
II of the Zone. The infrastructure construction was completed in November 1991.
Provisional acceptance was given and Phase II of the zone was opened for use.
As the occupancy rate again reached 90%, studies for the establishment of Phase
III of the Zone were initiated in 1997. The next year saw the expropriation procedures
and in August 2001 construction of the infrastructure was completed.
Phase III, comprising of 64 plots, was 100% occupied by December 2003.
In line with to the continuously increasing industrial potential it was decided
to establish Phase IV to the west and Phase V to the north, where the logistic centre
is planned to be built along with a rail connection. The expropriation and infrastructure
tender for Phase V with a land area of 3.759.600 m2 and Phase IV with a land area
of 743.000 m2 were completed in 2006 and land appropriation started in 2007.
The occupancy rate of Phase IV Stage I of our Zone, for which the appropriation
of 71 land plots has already started, had reached
62% by January 2008 and that of
Phase V stood at
80%.
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