Atlas Copco portable compressors are supplying vital air power for underground work on the latest extension to Istanbul's metro network. Currently under construction, the extension to the underground metro network is a 10-km-long section between Taksim and Yenikapi.

Turkish construction company Onur, which holds the maintenance contract for the ring road surrounding capital Ankara since the road opened in 1997, carries out work using its fleet of construction equipment which includes six Dynapac pavers and compactors.

International hotels group Hilton has opened a new hotel in Konya, its seventh property in Turkey. Hilton Konya is located beside the Sel-uk University campus, overlooking the city of Konya, 15 km from Konya Airport and 20 km from the centre of town on the Konya-Istanbul highway.

Paints company Jotun Boya says it has tapped into the lucrative tourism development market in Turkey to overcome a general economic downturn. A fully-owned subsidiary of Jotun of Norway, Jotun Boya is one of the leading players in Turkey's highly competitive market.

WORK is well under way on a major twin-dam project in northeastern Turkey close to the Georgian border.