We had started the business in the year 1880 , when Ahmet Hodja - also known as “Tecdeli” - the father of our grandfather Abdullah Tecdelioğlu – had acquired a hot and colled iron treatment and forging shop . We are continuing our business activity with our 17 companies in 3 main sectors for more than a century by keeping our corporate principles and values and we are proud of having collected our companies under the roof of TECDE Group’s corporate identity . TECDE Group which is currently managed by the 3’rd generation of Tecdelioğlu family , has started also to integrate the 4’th generation members of the family in the management of Group companies . The unique aim of each TECDE Group company is to move towards the direction of achieving the local and global leadership of their sectors by acting as per principles and guidelines of TECDE Group . Çetin Cıvata as one of the most important and leading companies of Tecde Group , was established by Tecdelioğlu Family in 1976 in Istanbul , Topçular and continues it’s activity in Istanbul , Çatalca in the factories district since 1996 . Çetin Cıvata continues to it’s investments every year and has reached a production capacity of 40,000 metric tons per year and exports 45 % of it’s annual production volume to developed EU countries with majority of it’s exports to Germany . Biggest markets of Cetin Cıvata in terms of industries / sectors are automotive industry mainly , but also white goods , metal constructions , machine building and furniture industries . Cetin Cıvata has the capacity and technical ability to produce all kinds of standard and special fasteners in various low and mid-carbon steel grades and in dimensions from 3 mm up to 27 mm and it’s an integrated fastener producer with all production processes and quality control processes in-house and with full tracibility in terms of quality assurance , supported by the quality certifications of ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, EN 14399-1 , EN 15045-1 ve OHSAS 18001 .