ALBANY — Turkey’s largest copper manufacturing company is developing a $10 million processing facility near the Everett Road exit of Interstate 90, city and company officials announced today

Sark Wire USA plans to initially employ 30 workers at its Industrial Park Road wire processing plant, which should be fully operational by the second half of 2009. The manufacturer will bring back to life the building a commercial printer closed last year.

Sark is expected to process 30 million pounds of copper each year in the form of bare and tin-plated wire. The wiring is used in the marine, automotive, aerospace, defense, communications and computer cabling industries.

Sark is a subsidiary of Sarkuysan Elektrolitik Bakir Sanayii ve Ticaret A.D., a 36-year-old Istanbul manufacturer with $1.5 billion in annual revenues and a work force exceeding 750. Sarkuysan, which was founded in 1972 mainly by gold dealers and jewellers, has shipped high quality copper and copper alloy conductors to the United States and 60 other countries for more than two decades.

“We’d like to make more investments in the state of New York and make Albany our central location,” said Sark and Sarkuysan Vice President Tolga Isik.