Turkish Marble Supplier for US Architects, Designers and Builders

Turkey supplies close to half of all marble building stone entering the US by volume — but most of that volume moves as an unbranded, price-driven commodity flow through large distributors. Sipahi's position is different: a project-specific fabrication partner, working from drawings rather than a fixed catalog, for architecture firms and luxury builders who need custom geometry, matched veining, and a mechanical anchoring system engineered for their specific facade — not a slab off a rack.

That model pairs two capabilities under one roof: custom fabrication (CNC waterjet, bridge-saw cutting, ±1mm tolerance, honed/polished/leathered/brushed finishes) and turnkey installation (optional Turkish crew, site supervision, AISI 316 stainless mechanical anchoring — scaffolding excluded, remaining the contractor's scope). Sipahi's largest completed reference is a landmark development in Sakarya, Turkey, demonstrating both capabilities executed at project scale; full documentation is available on request.

Sipahi is a third-generation family company founded in Sakarya in 1989, under the management of Managing Director Berkay Sipahi, with existing export operations in four international markets (Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, North Macedonia) and communication capacity in Turkish, English, Russian and Arabic.

As of July 24, 2026, imports from Turkey are subject to a Section 301 "forced-labor" tariff of approximately 12.5%, layered on top of the base HTS duty on marble and travertine products (roughly 10%–24% depending on product classification under HTS 6802.91 — cut-to-size, polished panels typically fall at the lower end; carved or sculpted work at the higher end). Buyers should plan pricing around a combined duty range of approximately 20%–25%, not the 5%–10% range often assumed. A 25-state legal challenge to the Section 301 tariff was filed August 3, 2026 and remains unresolved — rates should be confirmed with a licensed customs broker before any binding quote.

Sipahi quotes on FOB (Free on Board) terms from the Turkish port of loading rather than CIF, so the buyer arranges and controls ocean freight, insurance and the customs broker relationship on the US side — the standard structure for US buyers who already have an established freight forwarder and want full visibility into landed cost.

Marble is a weight-limited cargo, not a volume-limited one: a 20ft container carries approximately 28 tons and a 40ft container approximately 48 tons of stone before hitting the container's weight ceiling — well short of a full volumetric load. This means an initial order can combine slab, tile and cut-to-size product in a single container without paying for unused capacity.

Sipahi's US shipping lanes run from the Turkish ports of Izmit/Ambarlı to six landing regions: New York/New Jersey (~20–25 days, the shortest lane, serving NYC, Boston and DC Metro), Miami (~20–24 days), Port Canaveral or Jacksonville JAXPORT (~22–26 days, serving Orlando and Central Florida), Savannah, GA (~22–28 days, serving Atlanta), and Los Angeles/Long Beach (~30–40 days, serving LA, the SF Bay Area, Las Vegas and — via longer inland trucking — Aspen/Vail).