Kocaer Çelik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Kocaer Çelik) has announced its financial and operational results for the first quarter of 2026.
In the first quarter, Kocaer Çelik’s net profit attributable to the parent company amounted to TRY 118.84 million, down by 67 percent year on year. The company’s operating profit decreased by 55 percent year on year to TRY 464.01 million, while its net sales revenues fell by 15 percent year on year to TRY 5.06 billion.
In the same period, the company’s adjusted EBITDA declined by 16 percent year on year to TRY 715.25 million. Its adjusted EBITDA margin decreased to 14.1 percent from 14.4 percent in the same period of the previous year. However, the company stated that the EBITDA margin recorded in the first quarter of 2026 was above the 12.9 percent level achieved in the full year of 2025.
In the given period, Kocaer Çelik’s total sales volume decreased by 3.7 percent year on year to 144,645 mt. Approximately 62 percent of the company’s sales were made abroad. In the first quarter, domestic sales revenues increased by 37 percent year on year to TRY 1.86 billion, while international sales revenues fell by 32 percent year on year to TRY 3.06 billion.
Kocaer Çelik stated that the steel industry went through a challenging period in the first quarter of 2026 due to geopolitical tensions, logistics crises and global trade barriers. In the period in question, global crude steel production declined by 2.3 percent year on year to 459.2 million mt, while Turkey’s crude steel production increased by 5.3 percent year on year to 9.7 million mt. Thus, Turkey maintained its position as the world’s seventh largest steel producer, which it held at the end of 2025, in the first quarter of 2026.
Kocaer Çelik stated that, despite demand imbalances in global markets and trade barriers leading to a contraction in export channels, it repositioned its sales structure thanks to its flexible production capability and broad product portfolio. The share of the company’s value-added products in its total portfolio increased to 46.6 percent in the first quarter of 2026 from 43 percent in 2025. Kocaer Çelik announced that, within the scope of its 2030 growth vision, it is planning investments in a 1 million mt capacity steel mill and a fourth plant with a capacity of 500,000 mt in Aliağa, while feasibility studies are also ongoing for the establishment of production facilities or service centers in different countries.
Meanwhile, the company stated that, within the scope of its renewable energy investments, it currently meets 33 percent of its electricity consumption from renewable sources through its solar power plants with an installed capacity of 9.2 MW. It was stated that the first phase of the 24 MW geothermal power plant investment carried out in Aydın under Kocaer Enerji is ongoing, and that, upon completion of the investment, the company aims to meet all the electricity needs required for its production activities and to sell the remaining clean energy capacity.