PİLOT TAŞIT KOLTUKLARI SAN. ve TİC. A.Ş.

PILOT manufactures suspensioned driver seats for ON and OFF road vehicles such as tractors, forklifts, construction equipment, busses and trucks, as well as passenger seats and marine seats. Established in 1963 by the late Sukru Ozkilic Snr, PILOT is a successful family owned business currently being managed by his son Ahmet Ozkilic. Nowadays, we are proud to have 3rd generation of the family also involved in senior management. PILOT is based in Bursa, Turkey and has recently moved to a brand new, state of art manufacturing plant. PILOT is an ISO9001:2008 certified company and we are delighted to announce that we are in the process of receiving ISO14001 certification in our new plant.

We also design, develop, test and tool our own seats and most of our components. This combined with our modular design concept give us the flexibility and reliability required and appreciated by our customers. We constantly work on further improvements and new designs. We encourage customers’ input in this activity. We have extensive testing capability and all new parts and designs are tested for durability. Accordingly, a dedicated R & D, Testing and Tooling plant is also located in Bursa, right across the road from our manufacturing plant.

PILOT is a well known and trusted brand in seating industry servicing many OEM and aftermarket customers around the world from Americas to Far East, from Scandinavia to South Africa. Our success is based on high and consistent quality, a wide range of seats and options, and quick lead times both for developing new concepts and for manufacturing our standard range of seats. We also take pride in our after sales service. PILOT exhibits in all major international trade fairs giving our distributors a clear marketing advantage.

This year, we have also developed our X’treme and X’tremact seat ranges bringing out their Deluxe versions with improvements made to styling and backrest adjustment mechanisms.
In 2012, we aim to further increase our market share particularly in the Americas targeting OEM’s. We are also in the process of other new seat developments which will be unveiled at the other shows we will exhibit in 2012. For further details, you can visit www.pilot.com.tr