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BESLER (Fat&Oil Business Unit) is the biggest edible fat&oil producer in Türkiye with over 50 brands including a broad range of consumer spreads and margarines&liquid oils, industrial, pastry and HORECA fats. In 3 different factories, BESLER Fat&Oil Business Unit has the capacity of producing 658.000 tonnes/year and leads the local consumer margarine category (excl. discount markets) by 66%.

BESLER Fat&Oil Business Unit has the first R&D center in the edible fat&oil industry in Türkiye. In this center, we have high-tech pilot plants for performing all types of small-mid scale trials, including refinery applications, margarine production, fractionation, chocolate production. In our R&D laboratories, cutting-edge technologies such as GC-MS HS SPME, GC, HPLC, NMR, texturometer, Brookfield Viscosimeter, Oxidative Stability Measurement equipment, are used together with other necessary lab equipment for all types of fat&oil analyses. Our R&D center manages various types of projects within a range from sustainable packagings to process optimizations to unique product developments. Apart from internal projects, we have completed 6 national (TÜBİTAK&TAGEM) and 1 international (Acronym: SAP4MA) funded projects (under EUREKA-Aeneas EURIPIDES2 -Xecs) as a project coordinator so far. Also, we have 1 ongoing EU-funded project funded under HORIZON EUROPE (Excel4Pro), 1 EIT Food (Potential), 1 Cost Action, 1 Eureka Xecs (Mainverse) and 1 Network (ProColl) projects.