A trading partner built on real industry experience
KAF Industries is an Istanbul-based industrial trading and sourcing company, working across cryogenic equipment, industrial and specialty gases, steel, textile, international sourcing and business advisory.
Who we are
KAF Industries is an Istanbul-based industrial trading and sourcing company, headquartered in Ataşehir. We are not a manufacturer, and we state that plainly because it changes what a buyer should expect. We do not own mills, air separation units or garment lines. What we own is the commercial work between a requirement and a producer.
Our roots are in the industrial and specialty gases and cryogenic equipment sectors, where our team has accumulated nearly 50 years of combined experience. Those sectors set the standard we apply everywhere else: exact specifications, verified certification, and delivery dates that hold.
That experience shapes how we work in every business group. We do not simply move products; we analyze our customers' operational and technical needs, identify the right equipment or supply source, and structure the commercial model that fits the project.
Today our activities span cryogenic equipment sales, service and rental, industrial and specialty gas supply, stainless and carbon steel products, digital B2B platforms, international trade and sourcing of industrial raw materials, and business advisory. Our customers are industrial buyers: gas distributors and fillers, pressure vessel fabricators, project contractors and plants buying against a production schedule.
What we actually do
Trading and sourcing is a vague description on its own. In practice the work is a narrow set of tasks, repeated across six business groups.
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Turning an enquiry into a specification
Enquiries usually arrive incomplete: a tank size without a gas, a steel grade without a certificate type. Before anything is quoted we work the requirement into something a producer can price without guessing, because a guess here becomes a dispute at delivery.
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Finding and qualifying the producer
We hold working relationships with manufacturers, mills, refurbishment workshops, gas producers and factories in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Anything outside that list is verified first: a genuine producer rather than an intermediary, real certification, capacity that exists.
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Structuring the commercial side
Purchase, rental, refurbished unit, spot order or annual agreement are different answers to one requirement. We price the options against each other rather than presenting a single route.
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Checking before it ships
Inspection of condition, confirmation of certificate type and revision, dimensional checks and pre-shipment document review. The least visible part of the work, and the part that prevents the largest losses.
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Documentation, logistics and customs
Incoterms, payment structure, transport booking, export and import paperwork and clearance. A shipment held at a border for a missing document costs more than the margin on most orders, so documentation is treated as part of the product.
What "nearly 50 years of combined experience" means
That phrase appears in several places on this site, so it is worth stating what it refers to. It is a combined figure: the working years of the people in our team added together. It is not the age of the company, and no single person here has fifty years behind them. We publish it in combined form because that is the only form in which it is accurate.
The substance sits in three sectors. The largest share comes from industrial and specialty gas supply: purity grades, packaging modes, cylinder and bulk logistics, long-term supply contracts. The second comes from cryogenic equipment, including vacuum insulated storage, vaporisation and transport equipment, refurbishment and rental. The third comes from steel trade: grades, mill order coordination, dished ends and EN 10204 certification.
The roles behind those years were commercial and technical: preparing specifications and quotations, qualifying producers, negotiating supply terms, arranging inspection, and handling export documentation, freight and customs. That is why our advisory work is framed around what happens in real transactions rather than around consulting frameworks.
It also marks the limits. Our depth is in gases, cryogenics and steel. In textile, sourcing and advisory we apply the same commercial discipline, but describe that capability by scope rather than by decades.
Named management profiles, with the role and background of each person, are being prepared and will be published on this page. Until they are, the only individually identified member of our team on this site is Kerim Karacalar, Trade Director, who writes the technical articles published in our insights section. We would rather leave this section unfinished than fill it with titles and biographies that do not describe anyone.
How we work with customers
These are the operating rules we hold ourselves to, and the reason our commercial relationships tend to be long ones.
We say no early
If a requirement sits outside what we can genuinely deliver, you hear it in the first conversation rather than three months into a project. A declined enquiry costs us one order; a failed one costs a customer.
Nothing agreed verbally
Grade, dimensions, purity, certificate type, quantity, Incoterm, packaging and delivery window go into writing before an order is placed. Almost every dispute in this trade starts with something both sides assumed.
No catalogue to defend
We are not tied to one producer's range, so we have no reason to steer you toward a single answer. New against refurbished, cylinder against bulk, mill against stockist: the comparison can be honest because we do not lose either way.
Your commercial data stays private
We do not publish customer names, prices, volumes or sourcing routes. A supplier who publishes one client's arrangements will publish yours too.
One responsible contact
Each enquiry is owned by one person from first quotation through delivery and after-sales. You are not handed between departments, and you do not re-explain the specification to someone new.
How we work
Analyze first
Every engagement starts with a proper analysis of operational and technical requirements. The product comes after the problem is understood.
Source directly
We work with direct manufacturer and supplier relationships wherever possible, including our authorized representation of DKC Stainless in Türkiye.
Structure commercially
The right product also needs the right commercial model: purchase, rental, project-based supply or long-term coordination. We build the structure around the customer.
Stay accountable
Reliability and continuity matter more than a single transaction. We aim to be a partner our customers return to, project after project.