| Polimeks İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. | |
| Type: | Public |
| Foundation: | 1995 |
| Location: | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Key People: | Erol Tabanca |
| Industry: | Construction |
Polimeks İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. is a Turkish holding company based in Istanbul. Polimeks, established in 1995 and grew to become one of the world's leading construction companies, in recent years transformed into a global investment holding with activities in tourism, real estate, and renewable energy sectors. Polimeks primarily operates in Turkey, Russia, United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
In January 2013, the company received a contract to build the Ashgabat International Airport. Costing $2.1 billion in labor and operations, this is the largest construction project a Turkish firm has done abroad.[1] This was preceded by the Ashgabat Wedding Palace in 2011.
In 2007 in Moscow, the company built the first Ritz-Carlton hotel in Russia, on the site of the demolished high-rise hotel Intourist, on Tverskaya Street. In Turkey, the company built a hotel in Eskişehir and a paper mill in Kazakhstan.
According to the American magazine Engineering News-Record, Polimeks occupied 62nd place in the 2015 ranking of "225 Largest International Contractors".[2]