Aksoylar Natural Stone — Family Heritage

And so Aksoylar Mermer Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi began operations in Silahtarağa, Istanbul, in a factory with roughly 1,000 m² of covered space.

In its founding years, Aksoylar Mermer worked with a team of just six, and its production setup — within the means of the time — was lean but functional. Production began with a Turkish-type block cutting machine, a mobile slab polishing machine and a slab sizing machine. The company’s first activities centered on cutting, sizing and polishing marble.

This modest beginning would, in the years ahead, lay the foundations for a far larger enterprise — one spanning hundreds of employees, multiple production facilities, marble quarries, international trade and some of Türkiye’s most important projects.

For the founding brothers, Süleyman Aksoy and Burhan Aksoy, what mattered most was learning and controlling every stage of the work. Being present in every process — from the moment a block entered the factory to its cutting, and from slabbing to polishing and sizing — laid the groundwork for the production expertise the company would build in the years to come.

The experience gathered over the years became one of Aksoylar Mermer’s most valuable assets. The company grew not only through investment in machinery and capacity, but through a culture that knew stone — how to work it, and how to install it.

In the same period, the company was restructured as Aksoylar Mermer Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.

With this transformation, Aksoylar Mermer began to grow beyond being a marble business that simply produced and sold. As exports and imports became a key part of its expanding commercial structure, the company also turned to marble installation work.

Aksoylar Mermer’s service was no longer simply producing or selling stone. By selecting each product for the project, measuring it, processing it and preparing it for installation, the company was becoming a more complete natural stone solutions partner.

This export was more than a sale to a new country. For Aksoylar Mermer, it marked the beginning of understanding the needs of markets beyond Türkiye, responding to different size and product requirements, and gaining experience in international trade.

The process that began with Libya went on to contribute significantly to the development of the company’s approach to exporting and its international client relationships.

A production journey that began with 1,000 m² in Silahtarağa and grew to 5,000 m² in Alibeyköy reached an entirely new scale with the Beylikdüzü investment.

The Beylikdüzü factory helped Aksoylar Mermer both increase its production capacity and grow into an organization able to take on larger architectural and commercial projects.

From this period on, the company’s experience grew steadily stronger — not only in stone production and trade, but in projects and installation as well.

These same years saw Aksoylar Mermer markedly expand its presence in international markets. Exports that had begun with Libya spread to new regions; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Turkmenistan, Canada, the United States and Libya were among the main countries the company exported to during this period.

These trade relationships with diverse markets helped Aksoylar Mermer understand international client expectations more closely and develop its products to meet the needs of different countries.

The arrival of the second generation brought the production experience and commercial know-how built up by the founding generation together with a new approach to management.

Their responsibilities were shaped around the company’s international growth goals.

Mustafa Aksoy joined the cut-to-size marble export department as Cut-to-Size Marble Export Manager, focusing on selling processed, dimensioned, project-ready marble products to international markets.

Selim Aksoy, meanwhile, became Manager of the Block Marble Export Department, taking an active role in selling natural stone blocks to international markets.

By sharing the company’s different export areas between them, the second generation helped develop Aksoylar Mermer’s international commercial structure.

This period marked the beginning of a new era, in which the industry experience built by the founders, Süleyman Aksoy and Burhan Aksoy, came together with the new generation’s education, international trade expertise and professional approach to management.

It was the largest factory investment Aksoylar Mermer had made up to that time.

A team of around 55 people worked at the production facility in Mustafakemalpaşa. With its expansive production area and its proximity to the quarries, the facility became one of the company’s key centers for natural stone production.

Being close to the quarries allowed the entire process — extracting the block, transporting it to the factory, cutting it and turning it into a finished product — to be managed in a more integrated way.

Aksoylar Mermer thus became more than a firm that bought and processed marble: it was now an integrated natural stone company, active across the stages that lead from the source of the stone to the finished product.

• Aksoy Crema Marfil Bej,
• Aksoy Koyu Bej,
• Onyx Akhisar,
• Bursa Füme,
• Bursa Kırmızılı Bej,
• Dolomite,
• Limestone,
• Sivas Füme and
• Emperador Light

— natural stones, each with its own color, texture and character.

Owning its quarries gave Aksoylar Mermer control over quality from the very first stage of the raw material, while also allowing it to manage far more effectively the volumes of stone — and the continuity of color and texture — that large-scale projects demand.

Extracting stone from its own quarries, selecting it as blocks, cutting, polishing and sizing it in the factory, and preparing it specifically for each project: together, these became the foundation of the integrated approach to production the company developed over the years.

This growth reflected more than an increase in production capacity; it meant that Aksoylar Mermer had brought a wide range of expertise under one roof — from cutting to polishing, from quarry management to exports, from project installation to on-site operations.

The transformation of a business that began in 1970 with a few machines and a team of six into an industrial enterprise built by the work of hundreds of people became one of the defining features of Aksoylar Mermer’s history.

• Galeri Kristal A.Ş. – Antalya / Bodrum
• Ceylan İşletme A.Ş. – Antalya
• Club Ali Bey – Antalya
• Prestij Hotel – Antalya
• Hilton Hotel – Antalya
• Club Sera – Antalya
• Sherwood Club Kemer – Antalya
• Sherwood Dreams, Serik-Boğazkent – Antalya
• Club Ali Bey Hotel Manavgat – Antalya

— to name just a few.

The expansive spaces of tourism buildings called for natural stone to be treated not merely as floor or wall cladding, but as an integral element of the architectural design. These projects were among the key works that strengthened the company’s capabilities in both production and installation.

A stone extracted from the company’s own quarry being used in a major international project was a powerful example of Aksoylar Mermer’s integrated structure, reaching from quarry to production to international projects.

The project was also among the important milestones showing that the company represented Turkish natural stone not only within Türkiye, but across different parts of the world.

This new venture allowed the two brothers to combine the experience they had gained since 1996 — in production, exports, and the trade of block and cut-to-size marble — with their own entrepreneurial vision.

The natural stone knowledge inherited from the founding generation lived on in a new structure, joined by the second generation’s international trade experience and professional approach to management. In this way, nearly half a century of industry expertise within the family was carried into the future through a new company.

In the project, Aksoylar Doğaltaş delivered

• bathroom cladding,
• corridor flooring,
• stone features on TV units and
• elevator cladding

— a varied range of stone applications.

The work stands as an example of the company’s ability to deliver detailed, versatile natural stone solutions for residential and mixed-use projects.

• bathroom cladding,
• corridor flooring,
• TV units,
• elevator cladding and
• exterior marble cladding

were among the works carried out by Aksoylar Doğaltaş.

This scope, reaching from the interiors to the façade, demonstrated the company’s ability to manage natural stone solutions for different uses together within a single project.

With a broad selection bringing together 165 different marble varieties, the showroom was designed as a new kind of experience — one where natural stone is presented not merely as a building material, but as a distinguished element of architectural design and living spaces.

And so the journey that began in 1970 with a few essential machines and a 1,000 m² production area arrived, in 2024, at a contemporary luxury showroom of 2,000 m², displaying 165 natural stones of diverse origins and characters.

This investment became the symbol of a new era, in which production knowledge handed down from the past meets today’s architectural expectations, design sensibility and client experience.

The opportunity that Süleyman Aksoy and Burhan Aksoy saw at a time when the industry had yet to take shape on a large scale became a business through courage, working discipline and production know-how.

The first generation learned by living it: how to select stone, how to cut it, how to work it, and how to build a relationship of trust with a client. The knowledge gained over the years became the company’s memory — technical as much as commercial.

When Mustafa Aksoy and Selim Aksoy joined the company in 1996, this legacy entered a new era.

On one side stood years of experience from the field and the factory floor; on the other, the new generation’s education, professional management and approach to international trade.

Together, they allowed Aksoylar Mermer to preserve its identity as a family company while becoming more professional, more systematic and more open to foreign markets.

With Mustafa Aksoy and Selim Aksoy founding their own company, Aksoylar Doğaltaş Granit Maden Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi, in 2014, the family’s natural stone tradition continued with a new entrepreneurial spirit. The 2,000 m² showroom opened in 2024 marks the new point this long journey has reached today.

The first team of six grew, over time, into a large organization in which hundreds of people worked across factories and quarries.

A business that began with local production grew into an international enterprise with clients and projects in many countries.

Yet through all this growth, the core philosophy on which Aksoylar Mermer was founded remained intact:

• To know the stone.
• To master every stage of the work.
• Never to compromise on quality.
• To keep one’s word.
• And to leave the next generation not just a company, but a legacy.

The first step taken in 1970 by the brothers Süleyman Aksoy and Burhan Aksoy, who saw an opportunity in the market, grew over the years into factories, the company’s own marble quarries, international trade and major architectural projects.

Passed on to the second generation when Mustafa Aksoy and Selim Aksoy joined the company in 1996, this legacy brought the production experience of the past together with the commercial and corporate outlook of a new world.

With the second generation founding its own natural stone company in 2014, and a 2,000 m² luxury showroom displaying 165 marble varieties opening in 2024, this legacy has arrived at the present day — uniting the strength it draws from tradition with a contemporary understanding of architecture and design.

The Aksoylar Mermer journey, which began in a 1,000 m² factory in Silahtarağa, lives on today as the embodiment of more than half a century of experience.

Because some structures are built of stone. And some stories are as enduring as the stone itself.

Aksoylar Mermer — since 1970, a family tradition that has shaped nature’s legacy from generation to generation.