Mixta Inc. We had an interview with the Founding Partners Yılmaz Salık and Murat Cantekin about their work:
When was Mixta founded? Could you tell us a little about your work?
Mixta was founded in 2007 that is the product of more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Central sterilization units stainless steel equipment, Operating room stainless steel equipment, General hospital stainless steel equipment. Morgue carries out studies with certified quality in accordance with national and international standards on the modernization, design, and production of anatomy units. Today, Mixta products are used safely and with admiration in many health institutions at home and abroad. Mixta; means maximum environmental safety, modern production techniques, timely product supply, and effective service. There is a change and renewal in everything around us. The value given to people and the environment is increasing day by day. Health and quality of life are getting more and more important every day. We are a brand that produces fixtures for every institution where health services are provided. Every product we produce shows maximum sensitivity to human and environmental health with an innovative perspective. As Mixta, we produce new products with this awareness. By accepting absolute customer satisfaction as the basic philosophy of existence, without compromising our ever-increasing quality, we strive to provide the most accurate service to the health sector within the framework of our trained personnel and social responsibilities.
What are the products you produce?
We have a wide range of products in stainless steel equipment. We provide services to institutions of all sizes, especially in the health sector. As we have just said, we consider it appropriate to gather our production under four main headings. This leads us to be more disciplined and measured in our production. I could list some of our most well-known products: operating room cabinets with lids, anesthesia trolley, morgue unit and special lift systems, foot-controlled surgical stools, medical waste collection trolley, sterile product transfer trolley, funeral transport trolley, “one of the key part of sterilization units” workstations, Pre-wash bench with ultrasonic washer, packaging table, material washing sinks, emergency cart, plaster preparation table, disabled handle, folding disabled stool, endoscope cabinet with drying, catheter cabinet, lead apron hanger, washing and sterilization baskets, controlled passage door, eyewash sink, liquid waste discharge sink, garbage cans, narcotic cabinet, sampling window, narcotic cabinet, baby wash table, etc. In total, we produce nearly three hundred and fifty basic products and nearly four thousand semi-finished and full-finished spare parts for them under four main headings.
What would you say about your Central Sterilization Unit Stainless Steel Equipment?
“Stainless Steel Equipment”, which is indispensable for the Central Sterilization Units of hospitals, is designed and produced in our factory in a way that gives the most accurate answers to the needs. Our products, which are manufactured with first quality stainless steel, have been used for years with peace of mind in all places that need to be sterile, such as hospitals. In these environments where cleanliness and hygiene are very important, we can prepare germ-free and clean health environments thanks to the problem-free sterilization ability of stainless steel products. Stainless steel commodities used in central sterilization units also offer easy-to-use products to healthcare workers. For example, you would not tire a health worker who can solve all his work at an arm’s distance. This means a happy, peaceful, and productive workforce for you
You also have products in City Hospitals built with Public-Private Partnership. Which hospitals have you worked with so far?
To say without naming too much, Mixta branded products are always preferred in all known big projects. We have work that is about to be completed in Adana, Yozgat, and Mersin. There seems to be no unused product in our product range! But we already know which product is used where… I think we know how to explain ourselves well. There are very important values behind the use of Mixta designs and Mixta sensitivity in Turkey’s great health movement. Last year, we said “Mixta designs habits” in one of our products that we finished the design and put into use. You need to see where the health worker works and consider their need. It is very important that you know his habits. You should also know that the work done is correct and includes sharp and unchanging rules such as getting rid of germs. After all, the products you produce should serve such a purpose that; Let this purpose add value to human life.
Could you tell us a little about your hospital projects in 2018?
2018 started off very prosperous. Our investments in Gulf Region started to make an impression. In 2018, there was a significant increase in our overseas hospital projects. Our domestic responsibilities continue at full speed. Again this year, we want to bring some decorative effects to the agenda. There are 17 new products or accessory materials under development. We design special products that can be controlled by voice or touch with the logic of stainless. Imagine that you are working in your workstations or sterilization units, where you control all the controls from a tablet computer. For example, we design really spectacular examination rooms using specially paved stainless steel and wood. You need to see these designs, then we will better explain the vision of Mixta.
Could you tell us about your position in the domestic market?
Our projects and works abroad are quite intense, but they are very important for us in our domestic market. We are well-known and closely followed brand in the domestic market. Our brand awareness is increasing day by day. For example, our catalogs are carefully followed. We have many advertising instruments that we make outside of our catalogs. These things are followed a lot. In fact, we were very surprised when we saw our catalog in a manufacturer company abroad. We have a significant share in the domestic market with our stocks and ongoing production. I don’t think there is such an industry where pricing and competition have been so sharp. This is the most important sensitivity of our Turkey marketing group. To produce quality and timely work and to serve the people of my country at the most affordable prices. Now, if you’ll excuse me, let’s brag about it a bit)
You are a company that trusts your quality. What is your work on this subject?
We accept unconditionally complying with all domestic and foreign principles and laws regarding the “Quality Control” of every product and service we manufacture, as the reason for existence. At every stage of our production, we focus on gaining the full appreciation of the consumer and adding added value by making economical production. As a company; We have a controlled and disciplined vision in quality certification with product variety, features and quantities, buyer’s wishes, production tools, worker health, and environmental management. In particular, we have established the necessary control mechanism for quality management in production and recorded it in measurable standards. Thus, the production and shipment of quality goods to the sector automatically gained continuity. With all these measures; By controlling the quality of the products, their usefulness and usage time have been increased. By providing an increase in efficiency, the decrease in costs has returned to the consumer as an economy. With the increased product quality, better marketing of goods and services has been ensured. Mixta with quality management; It has not been a choice among various alternatives, but an indispensable “Brand” that can always be bought with peace of mind. Producing defect-free products and responding to customer requests in a timely and correct manner constitute both our company and our quality policy. We have the following quality certificates: ISO 9001: 2008 Serial Quality Management Certificate, ISO 14001: 2004 Environmental Management System Certificate, ISO 13485: 2003 Medical Devices Quality Management System Certificate, TSE Service Adequacy Certificate, TSEK 428 Work Benches Certificate, TSEK Stainless Steel Transportation Trolleys Certificate, TSEK Stainless Steel Cabinets Certificate, TSEK Doctor Hand Washing Unit Certificate, CE Conformity Certificate.
How many countries do you export to?
Today, our products are used with pleasure and peace of mind in 44 countries of the world. We have gained dozens of friends and customers from many far-near countries where we sell our products. All of them are satisfied with our quality, prices, and service. By getting to know our customers, we offer products and services that meet their needs.
Could you give some information about the fully automatic Drying Endoscope Cabinet, which is among the Mixta Concept Products?
The purpose of the product; cleanroom is the drying of moist scopes and the storage of disinfected scopes in a clean environment. This product was offered to the health sector in 2016. After long and sensitive studies, the product was created with the devoted efforts of Mixta project managers. The drying endoscope cabinet, which is one of the most successful concept products of teamwork and intellectual project management, has been met with great interest and enthusiasm. We have received orders for this product at international fairs we have attended and exported it to many foreign countries. To ensure that healthcare professionals work comfortably and quickly and obtain efficient results; As with this product, it is one of the purposes of all the products we design and produce. Central sterilization units, under the heading of stainless steel equipment, “endoscope cabinet with drying” is designed in the gastroenterology clinics of hospitals, in areas where medical examinations such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, and bronchoscopy are performed, with the aim of drying the scopes used after washing and storing them in a sterile and safe manner until the next process. It is easy and fast to use. It has user-friendly technologies.
What do you pay attention to when designing your products?
While designing Mixta smart products; we designs time. It determines how long the product can provide the desired service. It plans and disciplines all data accordingly for the management and rational use of time. It designs the workforce of the employee. Knowing the personal energy required for the use of the product and reaching a solution, it designs the product with this concept. The health worker ensures that he can do his job with the least effort. Designs the use of information. It calculates how hard the user’s brain is and how fast the process is. The aim is to design simple-to-use products. It designs the economy. It calculates all the steps, from how much the product is produced to how much it will serve. It proves that you can do the same job by spending less money and working to minimize expenses. He designs habits. It designs how the healthcare worker will use the work discipline and vision that he has been accustomed to for years and is a part of his life during the use of the product, and brings constructive solutions to this. How do you expect benefits from people working in restless environments… Or can you imagine the torture of an endoscope cabinet whose height is not considered? If the employee is short, an effective step that is easy to use right in front of him would be good. Mixta always prioritizes the human factor and its wishes and needs in all of the products it produces and designs. It fulfills all the conditions for easy, fast, and correct use. For this, it closely follows the current technology. It definitely uses technological innovations and inventions in the modernization of its products. Tries the use of products and tests their benefits. It only sells products that pass these tests. Nowadays, it is not easy for every product to get a Mixta label. Quality control and product consultants work with great effort to create the right product first. With the smart technologies it uses in its systems, it primarily ensures that the employees work comfortably and that the product they use will serve with high performance for many years.
Finally, we would like to get your opinions about the environment.
Mixta accepts as the basis of its environmental policy that the wastes generated during production are primarily reduced at the source and separated, recycled, and disposed of with the most appropriate methods. we use appropriate technology to organize training activities in order to raise awareness of its employees and suppliers on environmental protection, to keep the possible effects on the environment under control, and to minimize it. In order to prevent environmental pollution; undertakes to continuously improve at every stage of production and in all activities it carries out, to use natural resources consciously and to unconditionally comply with all laws on this subject. Because the destructive power of environmental pollution on nature and people is gaining more importance day by day. Hello to the future with proven and permanent environmental policies…