Policies

A Transformation That Nourishes the Future

POLICIES

As Kılıç Deniz is aware of our responsibilities towards the environment and society, believes in continuous development, prioritizes quality in its products and services, and is one of the leading companies in terms of technology and quality, our policy towards the environment is:

  • To minimize the pollution and damage we can cause to the environment by keeping the factors that may cause environmental pollution under control and using the best possible technologies and environmentally friendly processes.
  • To calculate greenhouse gas emissions and carry out reduction studies in order to contribute to the fight against climate change.
  • To accept compliance with all laws and regulations related to the environment as a minimum competence and to continuously improve and regularly monitor compliance with legal requirements.
  • To share our environmental awareness and environmental protection efforts with our employees, customers, suppliers and society; to organize training and awareness programs to increase environmental awareness.
  • Responsibly manage the supply chain, monitor and supervise feed procurement processes to prevent deforestation
  • To continuously monitor and control emissions, wastewater and other pollutants arising from our activities; To implement risk management plans by considering community health and safety.
  • To reduce our waste at its source, to collect it separately and to direct it to recycling, to ensure the sustainable use of resources by reducing the consumption of natural resources.
  • To increase resource efficiency in packaging and packaging processes, promote recycling and reduce waste.
  • Protecting aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity and marine resources; assessing and minimizing the impacts of aquaculture activities on marine and coastal ecosystems.
  • It aims to use resources effectively and sustainably in water and wastewater management, to keep the environmental impacts of wastewater under control, to comply with the relevant legislation and permitted limit values, and to prevent pollution.
  • To optimize energy and water consumption for the protection of natural resources, to adopt sustainable use approaches.
  • To improve our environmental performance by regularly evaluating the environmental impacts of our facility and ensuring the participation of our stakeholders.

It is our duty to fulfill our responsibilities towards today's people and future generations, to act with the awareness of environmental protection and to spread this awareness. We are committed to being a company that acts with the understanding of continuous improvement by combining environmental protection, product quality and activities to prevent unnecessary resource use.

As Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri Üretimi İth. İhr. ve Tic. A.Ş., we aim to manage all our operations through a corporate energy management system approach, thereby ensuring efficient use of resources and reducing energy costs.

  • We recognize that our energy performance and efficiency can be made more sustainable through a principle of continuous improvement, and we are committed to maintaining this continuity.
  • In order to achieve these goals and objectives, Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri İth. İhr. ve Tic. A.Ş. adopts a realistic and integrated energy management approach and commits to:
  • Fully complying with all applicable legal requirements and other obligations, while upholding our ethical values, 
  • Prioritizing energy efficiency in all our processes, adapting to technological advancements, supporting the procurement of energy-efficient products and services, and promoting design activities that improve our energy performance through continuous improvement, 
  • Ensuring that our energy performance is measurable and reported regularly, and shared with relevant internal and external stakeholders, 
  • Placing emphasis on energy efficiency awareness activities, 
  • Ensuring that all necessary resources and information required to achieve these goals are up-to-date and accessible, 
  • Regularly reviewing our energy management policy, setting higher goals and objectives within the scope of continuous improvement, and continuing our activities accordingly. 

We hereby declare and commit to the above.

Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri Üretimi İhracat İthalat ve Ticaret A.Ş.,

  • Production, processing and packaging of fish from ova to harvest size in the aquaculture sector, managing quality feed and packaging production and export activities, adopting customer satisfaction as a principle, depending on the vision of becoming a leader food company in its sector,
  • By determining and following targets to ensure continuous improvement in Quality and Food Safety requirements,
  • By working in accordance with the local legal regulations of our country and the
  • countries where our products are used and the food safety requirements of our business partners during the design, development and production stages,
  • By assessing the risks of food defense and food fraud in all processes from the preparation of our products to the consumption stage, ensuring that preventive measures are taken, accessibility is limited a vulnerability is minimized,
  • By providing the necessary resources for; the training and development of our employees to maintain food safety standards and all the standards we have, to develop and continuously improve the food safety culture, following the applicable laws for occupational health and safety,
  • By making the best use of the country's resources and adding value to our economy in domestic and foreign markets,
  • Continuously improving sustainability steps with our employees and suppliers with a sense of    social responsibility, 
  • By continuously reviewing all our processes (including import and export processes) from our suppliers to our customers, 
  • We are committed to provide quality, safe and sustainable products.

We Produce for a Sustainable and Healthy Life!

Increasing world population, global warming and marine pollution lead to a decrease in species living in seas and rivers. This creates challenges in accessing sustainable and accessible food sources, and therefore the demand for sustainable aquaculture is increasing. As Kılıç Deniz, we contribute to this mission with aquaculture production in increasing access to sustainable food and aim to shape the future with our understanding of responsible production.

As a worldwide leader in Mediterranean Aquaculture production with our integrated fish, feed and packaging production activities, we see sustainability as a basic element of our business and work for a sustainable life by regularly analyzing the effects of our activities on the world, society, life on land and sea, and biodiversity. In this context;

Marine Ecosystem Protection: By regularly analyzing the risks that threaten marine ecosystems, we are committed to ensuring sustainable resource management and protecting the diversity of aquaculture.
Climate Change Adaptation: We adapt to climate change by switching to environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient aquaculture. We are working on developing new species and carrying out energy efficiency projects to reduce carbon emissions from our production activities.
Animal Welfare and Ecosystem Protection: We embrace the responsibility of protecting ecosystems and animal welfare.
Reducing Environmental Emissions: We aim to minimize our negative impacts on the environment by reducing our climate-harmful environmental emissions.
Effective Use of Water Resources: We aim to ensure the circularity of limited resources by using water resources effectively.
Production Efficiency: We aim to reduce costs by using best practices and technologies in production, thus providing healthy products to the society at affordable prices, increasing efficiency and using resources effectively. We are committed to having traceable and continuously improved production processes.
Product Innovation: With product innovation, we aim to offer healthy and sustainable products with high added value.
Stakeholder Participation: We aim to grow together with our stakeholders with a participatory management approach by understanding the expectations of our internal and external stakeholders, who are key to the sustainability of our activities.
Cooperation with the Local Community: By minimizing our risks for the peoP•.le living in the region where we operate, we aim to ensure the participation of localeople and to
provide them with value-added solutions.
Employee Health and Safety: We consider it among our primary goals to ensure the highest level of health and safety in the regions where our employees and businesses are located. 
Employer Brand Value: We aim to increase our employer brand value by providing access to healthy, reliable and sustainable food. 
Customer Satisfaction: We aim to increase Kılıç Deniz brand value and customer loyalty by providing access to healthy, reliable and sustainable food.
Supplier Collaborations: ln order to understand stakeholder expectations, we aim to achieve our sustainability goals together by developing our collaborations on priority and important issues, and to ensure that our suppliers comply with climate targets by reducing environmental, social and governance risks.
Social Justice and Diversity: We are committed to making arrangements to ensure social justice, equality, diversity and inclusion in our activities and to control compliance.
Ethical Principles: We prioritize working in accordance with our ethical principles and all our company policies.
Value to Future Generations: We aim to plan and maintain our activities in a way that will offer a valuable brand and company that will be taken over in the future for our shareholders.
Corporate Culture and Resource Management: By developing our corporate culture in this direction, we aim to allocate resources that will enable us to achieve our goals.

In line with these goals, we will improve our way of doing business in the short, medium and long term by combining it with sustainability principles and an innovative approach, and we will expand our leadership in our sector and production activities in Turkey on a global scale. We will continue to improve the future of our business with our sectoral leadership and responsible management awareness.