Türkiye’s Consulate General in Houston welcomed executives of Elin Energy LLC, one of the leading Turkish investors in Texas: Arda Yalı, Afşin Meşe, Ercan Kalafat and Murat Karakeçili. Borusan Pipe US President Oğuzhan Kuşcuoğlu also paid a visit. The consulate thanked its guests for their courtesy calls.

Turkish manufacturing around Houston
Elin Energy, a Turkish solar module manufacturer founded in 1981, operates in the United States under the Sirius PV USA name. The company began producing solar modules in March 2024 at a plant in Waller County, west of Houston.
Borusan Pipe US has run a steel pipe mill in Baytown, east of Houston, since 2014, making oil country tubular goods and line pipe for the energy industry. A new production line commissioned in 2024 raised the plant’s annual capacity from 300,000 to 400,000 tons.