Russian LED manufacture Optogan has set up partnership with Ledison Patan Ltd, to form a new sales office in Koceali, close to Izmit, Turkey.

Ove Sörensen, senior director sales & business development at Optogan, pointed out that ,“For Turkey, we estimate a hundreds of millions Euro market for solid-state lighting luminaries within the next two years. Turkey, being the bridge between Europe and Asia, is a key hub for Optogan. With its strong labour force, biggest GDP growth rate in Europe, and a continuously growing population (with currently over 73 million inhabitants), we expect especially strong growth in our retrofit lamps.”

Apart from the retrofit business, Optogan and Ledison will focus on market segments such as street lighting, canopy, shop lighting, and lighting for hotels and restaurants.

“LED lighting will become one of the most important technologies of the 21st century,” believes Ahmet Patan, general manager of both Ledison and parent firm Patan Ltd. “Therefore we plan to invest about 3.2m Euros for the year 2012 to create and develop the distribution network,” he adds.

Ledison Patan will distribute Optogan’s SSL LED lamps and luminaires not only in Turkey but also in the Middle East and North Africa. Further possible steps will be investigated such as siting final assembly lines for LED lamps and luminaires in Turkey.

In September, as well as signing a pan-European distribution agreement with Germany’s Atlantic Elektronik GmbH, Optogan partnered with Bucharest-based KDF Energy for the distribution of its products in Romania, Greece and Bulgaria.