Asil Çelik A.Ş. has been founded in 1974 to produce quality and alloyed steel products, mostly for automotive industry, and started production in 1979. Construction of Asil Çelik premises has started in 1974 and started to production in 1979. Investment includes a meltshop with an EAF, rolling mills for bars, finishing lines to control surface and interior quality of the bars as well as the laboratories for the quality control. A functional organization structure has been designed, special emphasis has been given to specialization and recruitment of experienced and educated personnel in the field of quality and alloyed steel. Raw materials are supplied from domestic and global markets in compliance with the technical specifications prepared according to international standards. All the raw materials are tested before they are introduced to the system. Main raw material scrap is chosen from scrap types most suitable for quality and alloyed steel production. Orders from domestic and global markets are produced according to international standards and/or customer requirements. With process controls at every stage of production, the products are made available for shipment to the customer. The capacity, which was 150.000 ton/year in the beginning, has been increased until year 2000 to 260.000 ton/year crude steel and 235.000 ton/year end-product as a result of new investments and improvements. After that, the crude steel capacity has reached to 700.000 ton/year, end-product capacity has reached to 450.000 ton/year with the new investments.