1956
Young industrialist Ibrahim Bodur enters into an agreement with Czechoslovakian Technoeksport to bring, for the first time in Turkey, ceramic tile production machinery to Turkey.
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1957
The foundations for Çanakkale Seramik, Turkey's first ceramic tile factory, are laid by the Prime Minister of the day, Adnan Menderes.
The Çanakkale Seramik factory is built in Çan, a town that then had a population of less than a thousand. This event represents the drive to industrialize Anatolia as capital investment is taken to the seat of labour with the purpose of stemming the migration of the rural population to major cities.
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1959
Çanakkale Seramik begins production of the first domestic ceramic tiles. The first 20x20 tiles are made on 90-ton presses.
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1960
 Çanakkale Seramik, a participation company of Etibank with private, public, and government ownership, is Turkey's first manufacturer of low and high voltage ceramic insulators.
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1962
Çanakkale Seramik begins exporting, becoming the first ceramic producers in Turkey to sell its products abroad.
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1965
Çanakkale Seramik is the first company to allocate part of its budget to Research and Development activities. It also becomes the first company to produce machine parts and ovens designed and built by engineers and workers trained within the organization.
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1965
 Ibrahim Bodur announces the birth of the Kaleflex Group in Bandirma, a company producting Kaleflex, the first PCV based flooring material produced in Turkey. The trademark name soon becomes synonymous with the product itself.
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1966
The current Prime Minister, Süleyman Demirel, visits Çan for the first time to attend the 9th anniversary of the founding of the Çanakkale Seramik factories.
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1969
Kaleporselen is founded and starts to produce, for the first time in Turkey, electrical equipment that conforms with international standards.
The mechanics shop that is part of Çanakkale Seramik now proves that it has reached maturity as it is transformed into Kalekalip, the latest member of the Kale Group of companies and the first plant in Turkey dedicated to the manufacture of moulds and dies used in the ceramic production sector.
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1970
Kaleterasit, the first company in Turkey to produce exteral wall plaster, is founded. The product, Kaleterasit, becomes the generic term for `stucco`products in Turkish.
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