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Capabilities

Practical, coordinated and buildable.

Senior people stay close to the work

Technical leadership remains directly involved.

Integrated rather than siloed

Disciplines coordinated around the whole facility.

Designed for operation

Manufacturing, maintenance and commissioning considered.

Clear scope and accountability

Deliverables, interfaces and assumptions defined.

Project lifecycle

Support from definition through start-up.

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Concept

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FEED

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Detailed Engineering

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Construction Support

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Commissioning

Engineering Leadership

Senior specialists directly involved.

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Yılmaz Seki

Project Executive

More than 27 years of experience in the ice cream business, including engineering leadership at Unilever’s Global Engineering Centre in Mumbai. His experience spans concept and front-end engineering, detailed design, construction, commissioning and start-up, including major international ice cream factory programs.

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Nuretdin Nal

Technical Director

Brings 45 years of production, engineering and project-management experience, including 39 years with Unilever. His background includes major ice cream manufacturing investments, engineering management, capital-project delivery, manufacturing operations and cross-site technology leadership.

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Ric Valiente

Engineering Program Director

Brings more than 32 years of ice cream industry experience across R&D, factory operations and capital projects. His expertise includes product and process development, factory performance improvement, master planning and end-to-end project delivery from business case through commissioning and operational handover.

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Veysel Durlu

Lead Refrigeration Engineer

Brings 32 years of experience in industrial refrigeration design and execution, including NH₃, NH₃/CO₂ cascade and transcritical CO₂ systems. His expertise covers system selection, load assessment, plant sizing, engineering, installation leadership, safety, compliance and lifecycle energy optimization.

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John Overkleeft

Process & Automation Director

A process and automation specialist with more than 30 years of experience across food, home care, personal care and chemical production. His work connects process design, equipment selection, automation, scale-up and commissioning so that technical problems are addressed at process level.

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Aysen Sayan

Project Manager / PMO Expert

A PMP-certified project manager with experience in international portfolios and multicultural teams. Her work covers project governance, stakeholder coordination, procurement, contracts and budgets, helping clients, partners and sponsors remain aligned from project kick-off through close-out.

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Prof. Dr. Bulent Kaypak

Special Projects

An academic specialist in geophysics, geochemistry, engineering geology, engineering computing and multidisciplinary geosciences. He supports projects where subsurface investigation, seismic and geotechnical risk, site selection and technical modelling carry significant cost or safety consequences.

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