Hacı Ali Osman Yıldız, together with his two sons (Eyüp Yıldız and İsmail Sezer), founded Sömaş A.Ş. (Söğüt Onyx Marble Joint Stock Company) and Yıldızlar Mermer Sanayi (Yıldızlar Marble Industry).
Çiftyıldız Mermer Atölyesi embarked on the path of industrialization and changed its name to Çiftyıldız Mermer Fabrikası (Çiftyıldız Marble Factory). In the same year, the company made its first international export to Finland.
Kemalpaşa Beyaz (Kemalpaşa White) received significant attention both domestically and internationally. Subsequently, the company initiated new factory investments. The brand became one of the top 3 companies in Turkey in terms of mineral exports.
Çiftyıldız Mermer participated in its first exhibition, the 62nd Izmir International Fair. The company received the award for the best booth in the domestic stone category at this fair.
Kemalpaşa Beyaz (Kemalpaşa White) was used for the first time in professional projects such as the Sabancı Holding Twin Towers and İş Bankası Towers.
Çiftyıldız Mermer opened a distribution depot in Houston, United States under the name CMS-USA.
By introducing Savana Grey stone to the marble industry, it became the most preferred stone for major projects of that period.
Kemalpaşa Beyaz (Kemalpaşa White), which started to be used in Turkmenistan, surpassed 2,000,000 m2 and began to add a new color to the cities.
Çiftyıldız Group opened the Sivec Champagne Quarry in the Prilep Region of Macedonia. With the opening of the “First Turkish Quarry” in the country, a first was experienced in the marble industry.
After the inclusion of Çiftyıldız products in the tallest skyscrapers in Turkey in the 90s, a collaboration was established with Samsung. Subsequently, the products started to be used in prestigious towers of countries such as South Korea, Dubai, and Australia.
In the production department, the first steps were taken towards digital industrialization by investing in digital smart and robotic machines. With the “Online Stock”, customers were able to access the first plate product information in the sector as soon as possible.
Two more fields were added to the Harmanköy Light Beige quarry, which is an old business, and it was presented to its customers under the name “Harmony Beige”.
With Virtual Reality, it presented its product experiences to its customers in a virtual environment before they came to the factory, and brought a new and solution-oriented business approach even before meeting the difficult worldwide concept of “Pandemic”.
By adding a new field to the Kemalpaşa White quarry, which has been working non-stop for 32 years, it has become the most capacity operation of the region.
It introduced Victoria Gray, a very special stone within the Karacabey enterprise, to the market and in a very short time managed to enter the boutique stones sought in the Far East.