Ciner Glass
Ciner Glass is a leading glass container production company. We work to supply high-quality sustainable container glass to global food and drink producers through our industry-leading center of engineering excellence in glass technology situated across global markets.
Ciner Glass is part of the wider Ciner Group, a family-owned conglomerate which operates in five main sectors: Energy and Mining, Natural Soda Ash, Glass and Chemicals. Maritime and Shipping.
Our Story
The Ciner Glass journey began in 2011 with the opening of the Park Cam glass plant. In 2013, the company opened the Bozüyük Plant to help increase the capacity of producing up to 1,000 tonnes of glass per day and serving 22% of the Turkish beverage market.
In 2018, Ciner Glass decided to expand its operations worldwide. In 2019, Ciner Glass opened its headquarters in London while Ciner Glass Belgium opened shortly afterwards with the aim of producing two million tons of container glass a year across the UK, Europe and Türkiye.
Our People
We have almost 1,000 employees across our production sites in Türkiye, Wales and Belgium, as well as our headquarters in London.
Investing in our people is core to our business and culture. It has helped drive our growth from a start-up in 2013 to become a world leader in glass container production. This teamwork and dedication to empowering, developing and rewarding individuals is key to our long-term success.
The Ciner Glass company is underpinned by the following values:
- Protecting human rights, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Maintaining exemplary health and safety standards
- Maximising development opportunities and fostering creative innovation
- Community support initiatives
Our board
Didem Ciner
Chair
Mrs Didem Ciner is the Chair of Ciner Glass and We Soda. Her career spans over two decades at the company and she brings a wealth of experience to her role as Chair of the company. This involves overseeing the company’s ambitious plans to build glass manufacturing plants in UK and Europe, as well as developing strong and long-lasting partnerships with businesses, suppliers, political stakeholders and charities. Mrs Ciner serves on the Board of Trustees of Koç University in Istanbul. Mrs Ciner has a BA in International Relations from Koç University and an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics.
Gökhan Şen
Chief Executive of Ciner Glass UK
Gökhan Şen, was appointed as Chief Executive of Ciner Glass in September 2023 to help run the day-to-day operations for Ciner Glass in Europe as the company’s glass plant projects in Belgium and Wales. Mr. Sen has worked at the Ciner company for a number of years.
In his previous role as Lead Co-ordinator for the company’s European projects, he was in charge of helping to oversee the planning application process, setting out and progressing project timelines while also developing key relationships with customers and partners across both Wales and Belgium.
Mehmet Ali Erdoğan
Head of Legal
Mehmet Ali has been a legal advisor to a number of Ciner group companies for over 15 years, and a practicing solicitor and lawyer for over 25 years. He is a dual qualified English solicitor and Turkish lawyer with offices in both the UK and Turkey.
Sir Peter Westmacott
Non-Executive Director
Sir Peter Westmacott is currently an independent non-executive director for Ciner Glass UK.
Sir Peter Westmacott was appointed as a Director of the Company in January 2022 and is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of WE Soda Ltd. He has had an extensive diplomatic career spanning 43 years across several continents, including four years in Iran before the 1979 revolution and a secondment to the European Commission in Brussels.
Sir Peter has undertaken numerous roles including Deputy Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales between 1990 and 1993, Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Director for the Americas between 1997 and 2000, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for the Wider World from 2000 to 2001.
Sir Peter has also served as Ambassador to Türkiye, France and US from 2002 to 2006, 2007 to 2012 and 2012 to 2016, respectively. After a semester spent as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Sir Peter took up a number of corporate roles in the UK including, amongst others, independent non-executive at Ernst & Young and non-executive director at Ciner Glass Ltd and Glasswall Holdings.
He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Tikehau Capital, a Distinguished Ambassadorial Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a Senior Adviser to Chatham House. Sir Peter holds an MA in European History and French from the University of Oxford, where he is an Honorary Fellow of New College.
Nicholas Hall
Chief Financial Officer for Ciner Glass UK
Mr. Hall, a former managing director at JP Morgan, joined Ciner Glass in 2023 with over 27 years of capital markets and strategic advisory experience.
He has worked closely with WE Soda for the last five years and has been involved as a lead advisor in all of the company’s most important strategic projects.
Cüneyt Başaran
Chief Strategy and Risk Officer
Executive Board Member and Chief Strategy and Risk Officer for Ciner Glass. Mr Başaran has worked as a senior economic advisor at the company for over a decade, helping oversee the company’s ambitious expansion plans in Europe as well as across Turkey. Mr Basaran also works as a senior economist for the Ciner Group’s parent company, We Soda. He began his career working in investment banking before becoming Editor of Bloomberg Turkey.
Alasdair Warren
Non-Executive Director and Chief Executive of We Soda
Alasdair Warren has been a Non-Executive Director of Ciner Glass since September 2023 and is Group Chief Executive Officer of We Soda.
Prior to joining WE Soda, Mr Warren served as the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for the European, Middle East and Africa region at Deutsche Bank, based in London.
Prior to that, Mr Warren was an investment banking Partner at Goldman Sachs in London for 11 years, serving in a number of roles, including the Global Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage, the Head of European Equity Capital Markets and Derivatives, and the Co Head of UK Investment Banking.
Ahmet Tohma
Non-Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of We Soda
Ahmet Tohma was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Ciner Glass in September 2023. He also serves as Group CFO of We Soda.
He joined WE Soda from Şişecam Chemicals Resources, where he previously served as the CFO of our former US soda ash business through the NYSE listed company Şişecam Resources LP and its US affiliates, prior to the sale of a controlling interest to Şişecam in December 2021. Mr Tohma also served as the Chief Financial Officer of our US subsidiary company, Ciner Enterprises Inc., and as Finance Director at the Ciner Group.
From 2003 until August 2019, Mr Tohma worked in various management roles at Türkiye Garanti Bankasi in Türkiye across corporate finance, internal audit and project financing.
Gürsel Usta
Non-Executive Director
Gürsel Usta has been a Non-Executive Director of Ciner Glass since November 2023. Since January 2023 he has also served as the chairman of Park Holding, one of the main holding companies of the Ciner Group. Mr Usta previously served as vice-chairman of Park Holding from January 2016 to January 2023 and at the same time he acted also as the chairman of Akkan Enerji ve Madencilik A.S.
Mr Usta has previously held various leadership roles within the Ciner Group, including his position as chief executive officer of Ciner Energy & Mining, chairman of the board of directors of Ciner Media, and chief executive officer of Ciner Aviation and Tourism.
Nezahat Gültekin
Independent Non-Executive Director.
Nezahat Gültekin was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Ciner Glass in June 2025.
She brings over 20 years of experience as a strategic advisor, investor, business owner, and ecosystem builder across Silicon Valley and Europe. She has held senior roles including Global Head of Advisory at UniCredit, Head of Technology Investment Banking for EMEA at Nomura, and Director at Temasek, leading European TMT investments. Ms Gültekin has also served as Senior Advisor to Atlantic Bridge Capital and was a founding member of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty Programme, a UK government-backed initiative supporting high-growth tech companies. Earlier in her career, she worked in technology investment banking at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers.