Also recorded as: Karmetal Savunma Muhimmat Silah (second-pass update)
The company says it sold to a Gulf customer. The US sanctions text does not name it; the match to the unnamed Turkish supplier is an inference from goods descriptions.
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Turkish munitions-component manufacturer whose 'empty metal boxes' and 'springs' (assessed by C4ADS as ammunition boxes and link belts) were received by SAF-linked Ports Engineering Company in early 2024, via UAE-based Bond Technologies FZE.
Their response
Karmetal to FRANCE 24: the shipment contained 'empty metal boxes' and 'springs' with no military equipment, explosives or munitions, and was sold to 'a customer in the Gulf region', not directly to Sudan.
Unchanged from first pass: Karmetal says the goods were empty metal boxes and springs sold to a Gulf customer.
Records
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BGrade B: Corroborated
Karmetal
early 2024
Turkish munitions-component manufacturer whose 'empty metal boxes' and 'springs' (assessed by C4ADS as ammunition boxes and link belts) were received by SAF-linked Ports Engineering Company in early 2024, via UAE-based Bond Technologies FZE.
Response
Karmetal to FRANCE 24: the shipment contained 'empty metal boxes' and 'springs' with no military equipment, explosives or munitions, and was sold to 'a customer in the Gulf region', not directly to Sudan.
Sanctions
None. OFAC (Jun 2026) refers to an unnamed "Turkish company" supplying Ports Engineering with ammunition belts and boxes of weapons.
Karmetal Savunma Muhimmat Silah (second-pass update)
Early 2024
C4ADS press release adds detail to the first-pass entry: Turkish records show 20,000 "plastic bod[ies]" and 3,000 "metal box[es]" shipped under Karmetal's former name, destined for Sudan with Bond Technologies; Sudanese records show "welded link chain[s]" and boxes received by Ports Engineering with Bond Technologies as notify party.
Response
Unchanged from first pass: Karmetal says the goods were empty metal boxes and springs sold to a Gulf customer.
Sanctions
None. OFAC (26 June 2026) refers to an unnamed Turkish company supplying Ports Engineering with "ammunition belts and boxes of weapons".
›Research notes
C4ADS: the goods 'could be used by SAF in the conflict, and therefore could violate the U.N. arms embargo if destined for use in Darfur'. OFAC still does not name the Turkish firm; the match to Karmetal is an inference from identical goods descriptions.
manufacturer of metal boxes and "springs" received by Ports Engineering through Bond Technologies FZE (Karmetal says it sold to a Gulf customer, not to Sudan) · early 2024
No direct tie is documented. Basis: shared intermediary; named in the other actor's record; cited in the same source (via Ports Engineering Company Ltd).