About Us About Us
SAAT FARKI Dis Tic. Ltd. Sti. located in Ankara, Turkey is in search of distinguished brands to provide a variety of
high quality choices to the outdoor enthusiasts in Turkey. Currently we define our core business as the distribution
and retail sales of high quality innovative products. We intend to distribute distinguished brands and to build mutually
beneficial collaborations with our partners.
Currently we represent Ultralux AG, Basel with “Kalashnikov” Watches, L&M Swiss Watch Company for Luminox Watches,
MB Microtec AG producing illumination products for consumer and Military use and again from Switzerland the world’s Number One for individual water purification systems and products, with a global market share exceeding 50 percent Katadyn.
All of the current products we import apply to outdoor retail stores and the Armed Forces of Turkey.
ABOUT LUMI-NOX
The Luminox Watch Company is an American success story. It began in 1989 when the founder, Barry Cohen, who was already in the watch business, discovered a need and filled it. As has been said many times, “necessity is the mother of invention” and the Luminox story is a classic example. When the founder heard of a unique Swiss self-powered illumination system, he reasoned that this would be a very helpful addition to the watch business, making watches more visible and easier to read in low or no light situations. This seemed quite logical since one of life’s realities is degeneration of eyesight as one ages, and finding methods to see anything better (in this case—time) made sense. He contacted the owner of the illumination company, and acquired the rights to use the technology in a new brand of watches employing this unique illumination system, now called LLT (Luminox Light Technology), and a watch brand was born. The rest, as they say—is history. Today, Luminox can be found in more than 30 nations with more being added regularly. The line began with one very basic model and grew to include many more models over time. Noticing a trend toward watches aimed at the active sports market, Luminox created a dive model in 1993. This was the first time luck played a significant part in our development. A U.S. Navy SEAL procurement officer contacted Luminox and explained their need for this luminous technology for use on night missions and asked to have the new dive watch re-engineered to meet their rigorous specifications. After many months of redesigning, the revamped dive watch was offered to the SEAL teams in early 1994, and Luminox went out to the world to offer this same watch to consumers as the Original Navy SEAL dive watch. It became an instant success. With the enhanced readability having been requested by and supplied to U.S. Navy SEALs, consumers correctly reasoned that if it was good enough for one of the world’s most elite military forces, it surely was good enough for their recreational uses. From there, Luminox expanded the collection to include a variety of dial colors, as well as improved and upgraded versions of the Original Navy SEAL dive series, and ultimately an entire line of watches of many types and styles created for the active consumer, the sportsman, law enforcement and, of course, military groups.
MB-MICROTEC AG
In 1918 two chemists, Walter Merz and Albert Benteli founded the company Merz & Benteli AG. They concentrated on the manufacture and marketing of luminous colours. Luminous colours, which at the time had only been in existence for a few years, were mainly supplied to the Swiss watch making industry.
Even then, the quality of the raw materials was of major importance in determining the viability of the finished product. And so it was, that some of these ingredients were procured directly from the pioneers of nuclear physics.
Finally, in 1968 the “luminous colour department“ of Merz & Benteli became an independent company, known today as mb-microtec ag. At the same time the decision was taken to discontinue the manufacture of luminescent compounds (glow paint) and to concentrate 100 % on the then completely new, exciting trigalight-technology. Research and development were focused totally on this new light source, free of the known disadvantages of the traditional luminous colours (chemical disintegration, diffusion of the tritium). Ultimately and as a result of continuous research the trigalight (gaseous tritium light source) was developed in the form in which we know it today.
Completely independent of external sources of energy, mb-microtec ag light sources offer indispensable service to a wide range of both state and private, institutions and industries.
KATADYN
The Swiss Katadyn Group is the world’s Number One for individual water purification systems and products, with a global market share exceeding 50 percent. Katadyn has been developing water filters, chlorine and silver-based sterilizing agents, and mobile desalinators for the trekking and marine markets for 80 years now. Numerous international relief organizations and special army units rely on the products of Katadyn for survival and life saving. The company has further diversified by adding two other outdoor market brands: “Trek’n Eat” – the Number One for outdoor and expedition foods in Europe – produces high-grade, freeze-dried specialty rations. The Swedish Optimus company – producer of outdoor stoves and accessories – joined the Katadyn Group at the end of 2007.
Katadyn is headquartered in Wallisellen-Zürich, Switzerland, and operates subsidiaries in Germany, France, Sweden, the U.S.A., and Singapore. The group is among the 60 most profitable companies in Switzerland and employs some 90 persons worldwide.
SAAT FARKI CONTACT:
+90 312 438 83 43
ADDRESS:
Sancak Mah. 515.sok. No:6/2
Çankaya, 06550,Ankara
