During his working trip to Zhambyl region, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov familiarized with the construction project of a large chemical complex EuroChem-Karatau LLP and new investment projects on the basis of chemical park Taraz Free Economic Zone. 

To date, 838 enterprises operate in the industrial sector of the region, and the number of employees is about 43 thousand people. At the end of 7 months, the volume of output reached 510 billion tenge (+7.8%). At the same time, the region has a well-developed manufacturing industry, the share of which in the total volume reaches 72%. In particular, there is a growth in the production of mineral fertilizers by 3.2 times, sugar - by 8.9%, cheese and cottage cheese - by 5.9%, footwear - by 20.2%. The share of the chemical industry in the manufacturing industry today is over 49%.

For example, EuroChem has implemented the first stage of a large-scale investment project: on the basis of a mining complex, phosphate rock production has been established up to 660 thousand tons per year, and a medium crushing and fine grinding unit with a capacity of 640 thousand tons per year has been built. The investment amounted to $126 mln.

As part of the second stage, construction of a chemical complex for the production of mineral fertilizers began. The production capacity is at least 1 million tons per year. The realization of the second stage will allow to attract over $1 billion of direct foreign investments and create 1200 new jobs.

Prime Minister emphasized that the Government pays great attention to the implementation of projects in the chemical industry, so the new large plant is important not only for the development of the region, but also for the republic as a whole. 

"This project will meet the needs of agricultural producers in mineral fertilizers and will create additional jobs. Therefore, it is very important to speed up the launch of the plant to start production of products so demanded in the domestic and foreign markets as soon as possible," Alikhan Smailov said.

He also added that the Government is currently increasing the amount of subsidies for farmers in terms of expanding the use of fertilizers. As a result, it will significantly increase productivity in agriculture. 

Here the Head of Government was also reported on the progress of construction of EuroChem and Shu two automated gas distribution stations. This will enable to gasify 32 settlements of Sarysu and Shu districts (61.7 thousand people), a new chemical complex of EuroChem-Karatau LLP and 24 settlements of Moyinkum district (28.7 thousand people).

Further, Alikhan Smailov familiarized himself with the activities of the special economic zone "Taraz Chemical Park", located in Shu district. Thus, Prime Minister was presented the investment project of TAS Market LLP on creation of silicon cluster, where production of industrial silicon, graphite electrodes, polysilicon and solar panels will be established.  

The project on construction of the first in the country plant for production of soda ash, realized by Qazaq Soda LLP, was also presented. The enterprise will be put into operation in 2025, and its production capacity will be 500 thousand tons of products per year with the prospect of increasing up to 1.2 million tons per year. As part of the state program "Business Road Map-2025", power lines were brought to the facility, it is also planned to lay a water pipeline and develop railway infrastructure.

"We support these projects and will continue to work on bringing in the missing infrastructure. This can be done within one year. I will give appropriate instructions to the Ministry of Industry and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy," Alikhan Smailov concluded.

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