Established as a Rehabilitation Organized Industrial Zone (OSB) with registration number 284 by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology on July 4, 2012, the Zone completed its rehabilitation requirements on October 11, 2013, and transformed into a fully authorized OSB.

Due to its accessibility by land, sea, and air, Corlu is a dynamic center of Turkish industry. The Corlu leather industry has been conducting environmentally conscious and respectful production activities in this center since the 1960s, and since April 1997, it has been serving the national economy as the Leather Organized Industrial Zone.