BBM Magazine Issue-Sayı: 55 August - Ağustos 2022

54 INTERVIEW • RÖPORTAJ BBM / AĞUSTOS 2022 • AUGUST 2022 İnterview/Röportaj Mustafa Yağmurlu machine production. Later, our father Ferruh Aybakar led the business. The quality, durability and use of the machines made have satisfied the customers. Since then, the highest quality of raw materials used in production has always been selected and highly efficient and sustainable projects have come to life. This ultimately resulted in customer satisfaction. After our father passed away, our mother Hatice Aybakar took over the business. In this process, we, three siblings, gave our mother the best support we could. Our dream since childhood has always been to operate our factory in the mill- ing sector, so we received our training accordingly. Thanks to our French, English, Arabic and Persian education abroad, we are now able to address many geographies. Besides, we have always followed the developing technology and the agenda closely. After we lost our mother at an early age, we three sib- lings, Mustafa İhsan Aybakar, Sinan Aybakar and Filiz Aybakar, as the third generation, successfully manage the company founded by our grandfather. We plan to continue our business for generations in virtue of our business principles that we learned from our family elders, priorities, relations based on respect and love, rules, mission and vision. How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your industry? What kind of change do you observe in the industry? What kind of process do you think awaits the grain processing industry in the future? The past three years have been quite challenging economi- cally and psychologically all over the world. The world had to live with a pandemic that humankind have not encountered for a long time, and experienced for the first time by the younger generation. This situation, in which the world was caught un- prepared, created great problems along with chaos and pessi- mism. The pandemic harmed the milling and machinery indus- try, as well as many other industries. Mandatory delays in our normal commercial activities, customer visits, exhibitions, and factory installations took place. We hope that all the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, which we can say now has tailed down, will not come back again. However, I can say that the pandemic has also had some positive effects on our workflow models. At the beginning of this process, when coming together physically was not pos- sible, digitalization gathered pace. We started to make our meetings and sales online. We have developed remote inter- vention and solutions for our customers' facilities. We discov- ered the possibilities offered by digitalization. In this process, we also had the opportunity to discuss the issues that we had to postpone constantly and to review our future plans. We also made sales to many new regions. Our flour factory project, which we commissioned in Russia, is a good example of this. In the Covid-19 process, which affected our entire lives, lan ekipmanların kalitesi, dayanıklılığı ve kullanımı müşteriler tarafından onay aldı. O günden beri üretimlerde kullanılan hammaddelerin hep en iyisi seçilmiş ve yüksek verimli, sürdü- rülebilir işler ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu da sonuç olarak müşteri mem- nuniyeti sağladı. Babamızı kaybettikten sonra işlerin başına annemiz Hatice Aybakar geçti. Bu süreçte biz de üç kardeş, annemize elimiz- den gelen desteği verdik. Çocukluğumuzdan beri hedefimiz değirmencilik sektöründeki fabrikamızı işletmek olduğu için eğitimlerimizi buna göre aldık. Yurtdışında Fransızca, İngilizce, Arapça ve Farsça eğitimleri almamız sayesinde şu an birçok coğrafyaya hitap edebiliyoruz. Ayrıca gelişen teknoloji ve gün- demi de her zaman yakından takip etmeyi sürdürdük. Anne- mizin de erken yaşta rahmetli olmasının ardından üç kardeş Mustafa İhsan Aybakar, Sinan Aybakar ve Filiz Aybakar, üçüncü nesil olarak dedemizin kurduğu firmayı başarıyla yönetiyoruz. Büyüklerimizden öğrendiğimiz iş prensibimiz, önceliklerimiz, saygı ve sevgi çerçevesindeki ilişkilerimiz, kurallarımız, misyo-