ASPİLSAN Enerji participated in the SAHA EXPO International Defence, Aerospace and Space Industry Exhibition held at the İstanbul Expo Center between 22-26 October 2024 with its latest products. Organized by SAHA İstanbul, the largest defence industry cluster in Türkiye and Europe, the exhibition was held under the auspices of the Presidency and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Industry and Technology, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, and the Presidency of Defense Industries of the Republic of Türkiye.
SAHA EXPO, held under the auspices of the Presidency, is a major meeting and cooperation platform that showcases Türkiye's domestic and national production capacity in the defence industry and prepares the ground for international cooperation.
At SAHA EXPO 2024, which brings together the world's leading defense industry companies, ASPİLSAN Enerji also appeared before the sector representatives with its latest technology products developed as domestic and national.
National Energy Solutions for the Turkish Defense Industry
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Turan Özdemir, General Manager of ASPİLSAN Enerji, remarked on ASPİLSAN Enerji's strategic role in the defence industry and stated that they have been carrying out important projects for 43 years to reduce Türkiye's dependence on foreign energy. Özdemir expressed his satisfaction with ASPİLSAN Enerji's participation in SAHA EXPO 2024 with the following words:
“As ASPİLSAN Enerji, an organization of the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation, we aim to produce solutions that will reduce our country's foreign dependence in the field of energy systems in every work we have been doing for 43 years. In line with this mission, with our cylindrical lithium ion battery cell production facility, which started mass production in June 2022, we have brought together domestic and national products and services with our customers in a wide range of fields from the defence industry to energy storage in the civilian field.”
Özdemir said that the cylindrical battery cells produced by ASPİLSAN Enerji are mainly used in radios and portable systems in the defence industry, while they are also used in vacuum cleaners, electric bicycles, telecommunication infrastructures and energy storage systems in the civilian sector. He also stated that ASPİLSAN Enerji plays an important role in the conversion of base stations from lead acid batteries to lithium ion batteries in cooperation with telecommunication companies.
Leadership in Battery Technologies
Özdemir continued his statements as follows: “As ASPİLSAN Enerji, we are making important breakthroughs in the production of domestic software and hardware, which is the key to technological independence, under the roof of the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation with the support of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Presidency of Defense Industry Presidency. As we continue our R&D activities without slowing down, we continue to contribute to the security and defence infrastructure of our country. In this direction, by offering innovative and secure energy storage solutions, we provide reliable energy sources not only for daily use but also for the defence industry and critical communication technologies.
As ASPİLSAN Enerji, we take an active role in renewable energy storage and sustainability projects in order to produce our own energy and make it sustainable in order to achieve our country's current goals and we meticulously and intensively continue our work.
We aim to carry our high-tech battery systems, which we produce with Ni-Cd, Lithium Ion and LFP cells, even higher. In this context, we continue to respond to the needs of the sector with our expert team experienced in battery design and production and established for UAV systems.
Thanks to our high-tech engineering solutions, we are intensively working on the development of strategically important products such as torpedo batteries. With our innovative approaches in this field, we aim to contribute to our naval defence systems.
Our efforts to develop strategic importance products such as space batteries have also gained momentum. With our agile approaches in this field, we aim to equip the space systems field with indigenous technologies. Space batteries play a critical role in the fields of exploration and communication by meeting the sustainable energy needs of spacecraft.”
Latest Technologies Introduced at SAHA EXPO 2024
ASPİLSAN Enerji introduced its latest energy solutions and battery technologies to different stakeholders of the defence industry within the scope of SAHA EXPO 2024. The products displayed in the exhibition area demonstrated ASPİLSAN Enerji's innovative and national production power. In this event, where domestic and national technologies were introduced, the solutions developed by ASPİLSAN Enerji attracted great interest.
ASPİLSAN Enerji, which stands out with solutions that respond to the increasing need for energy storage, aims to increase the use of sustainable energy and renewable energy technologies in the defence industry. In this direction, ASPİLSAN Enerji aims to develop cooperation opportunities with both national and international companies with its advanced technology products at SAHA EXPO 2024.
Ahmet Turan Özdemir, General Manager of ASPİLSAN Enerji, thanked all stakeholders who contributed to the organization of the fair and stated that the cooperation opportunities offered by SAHA EXPO will make great contributions to Türkiye's energy and defence industry.”
