Erdemir Steel Service Center (Ersem) was established on October 2, 2001 by Ereğli Demir Çelik Fabrikaları T.A.Ş. (Erdemir), Turkey's only integrated flat steel producer. Ersem, whose capital is wholly owned by Erdemir, started its commercial activities in the Gebze Organized Industrial Zone on January 1, 2002.
Ersem, which started its operations in Gebze with a 150 thousand tons capacity cold slitting line and a 100 thousand tons capacity cut-to-length line, today has hot cut-to-length and hot slitting lines with an annual capacity of 700 thousand tons in İskenderun, hot slitting with a capacity of 200 thousand tons in İskenderun, multiple cut-to-length with an annual capacity of 100 thousand tons in Ereğli, angled cut-to-length with a capacity of 100 thousand tons, hot slitting with a capacity of 150 thousand tons, cold slitting with a capacity of 150 thousand tons and hot cut-to-length with a capacity of 150 thousand tons. In 2015, in addition to these facilities, Ersem opened a new steel service center in Manisa with a cold slitting capacity of 150 thousand tons/year. Cold Slitting Line (150,000 tons/year)
Cold Cut to Length Line (100,000 tons/year)