Petkim is Türkiye’s integrated petrochemical producer, and its Aliağa complex, built from 1985, is next door to a refinery that supplies it with naphtha. This page is for the process safety and HSE teams who need an explosion proof mobile phone for Petkim in Türkiye to carry through olefin, polymer and port areas. The IS-04Z1 is designed for Zone 1 and Zone 21 and is still being certified. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification programme in progress
Petkim was founded in 1965 by Turkish Petroleum and was privatised in 2008. SOCAR is its majority shareholder, and the original plant is at Yarımca in Kocaeli. The Aliağa complex, near İzmir, began to be built from 1985 and carries most of the group’s production. Published descriptions give about 15 main production facilities and roughly 3.6 million tonnes a year of gross capacity, led by ethylene, with polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, vinyl chloride monomer and xylenes among the products. Feed arrives from the neighbouring STAR refinery under a long-term offtake agreement for naphtha and mixed xylene, and the Petlim container port next to the site opened in December 2016. A crew moving between a cracker, a polymer plant and the quay crosses several different hazard types in one shift.
A petrochemical site gives a handset two jobs at once: gas near the cracker and dust near the polymer plant. The points below are specific to that mix.
A cracker is a gas job, while a polyolefin silo or a PVC dryer is a dust job. The IS-04Z1 is designed for Zone 1 gas and Zone 21 dust under one certification programme, so an operator does not swap devices at a boundary.
Ethylene is group IIB and hydrogen is IIC. The marking target of II 2 G Ex ib IIC T4 is chosen so a single handset is not excluded from either unit.
A shift engineer visits the cracker, the polymer lines and the quay. Four-constellation GNSS, a 50 MP camera and a 4,000 mAh battery are specified for a day of that, without returning to a safe-area charger.
Planned stops bring contractor crews who need permits, site maps and procedures. Android Enterprise lets the site push only the applications it approves and recover the device when the crew leaves.
An operator walks a furnace and compression area, reads local gauges and photographs a flange. The reading and the picture go straight to the shift log.
A technician in a polymer powder area records a blockage or a leaking seal with a photograph and a position, which saves a second trip to confirm what the control room has been told.
A loading operator at the berth or a dispatch gantry checks documents and takes a photo of a seal, with IP68 sealing coping with spray in a coastal setting.
Petkim publishes a document on ESG practices in procurement and HSE on its website. It is the right place to start for the company’s expectations. Registration steps for a hazardous-area equipment supplier are agreed directly with the procurement and HSE teams, and this page does not claim any SAMS registration.
The certificate and marking belong to the device, but each site classifies its own areas. The Petkim and STAR HSE teams define zones separately, and each would check the marking against its own drawings. See the SOCAR Türkiye page for the refinery side.
Different gases ignite at different energies. Ethylene is IIB and hydrogen is IIC, which is why a handset marked only for a lower group may be refused at some units. The IS-04Z1’s marking target covers IIC; the certificate will confirm it.
Tell us the site, the zone and gas group, and roughly how many handsets. The SAMS team replies by email with the datasheet and the certification schedule for Turkey. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and certification is in progress, so there is no list price yet; indicative pricing is issued in writing against a stated quantity and site.
Tell us the zone, gas group and operator. We will send the datasheet and the certification schedule for your market.
