If you draw a 4,000 km radius around Istanbul you cover Europe, the entire Mediterranean, the Gulf, the Russian-speaking CIS, North Africa and Central Asia. A distributor sourcing aluminium tile and floor profiles from this radius gets two structural advantages European or East Asian factories cannot match: shorter logistics tail and Customs Union access.
Customs Union — the unfair advantage
Turkey's Customs Union with the EU eliminates customs duties on industrial aluminium profile imports into all 27 EU member states. A container leaving Istanbul with EUR.1 documentation lands in Hamburg, Rotterdam, Marseille, Trieste or Pireus duty-free. That single fact moves landed-cost economics in our favour by 6–8% versus East Asian sourcing for any EU-bound distributor.
Lead time
From order confirmation to a sealed container leaving the Istanbul port complex, 3–4 weeks for standard SKUs and 5–6 weeks for custom-extruded profiles. Sea-freight transit to North-European ports is 8–12 days; rail to Central Europe, 6–8 days; truck to the Balkans, 3–5 days. Total order-to-distributor lead time is comfortably under eight weeks for any European destination.
Documentation
Every Aluprofilium shipment leaves with: alloy composition certificates (EN AW-6063-T5), mechanical properties test report, EUR.1 preferential origin certificate where applicable, packing list, commercial invoice, bill of lading, and any project-specific certificates (CE, REACH, RoHS) the destination market requires.
MOQ flexibility
Standard catalogue SKUs ship from MOQs as low as 500 metres. Custom extrusions require a die investment and start at typically 3,000 metres. For mixed-SKU consolidated containers we work with distributors on a project-by-project basis.
Markets we already serve
Direct shipments to distributors across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Israel, the GCC, Egypt, Morocco, and Central Asia. Our Uzbek partners search and stock under alyuminiy plitka burchak; we ship the same SKU they would otherwise source from a 30-day-longer Asian route.
How to start
Send a project list or distribution catalogue and we'll return a quotation, a sample dispatch schedule, and a credit-terms proposal. Open the conversation here.