This was announced today at the press conference in the press center of the Government by the Chairman of the Union of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan Meiram Pshembayev.

In the President's Address to the People of Kazakhstan, "New Opportunities under the Fourth Industrial Revolution," it is said that industrialization should become more innovative, taking advantage of the new technological structure 4.0.

Today the main task of the Union of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan is the consolidation of industry enterprises and the solution of systemic problems of enterprises. For coordination of the activities on creation of close cooperation between the enterprises of Kazakhstan, the Union works on possible intra-industry cooperation of system-forming machine-building enterprises according to the need for materials and components for the production.

The Union forms a list of systemic problems of machine-building enterprises arising in the course of production activities and their further solutions with the help of the Ministry for Investments and Development, Atameken NCE and other state bodies. The conducted certification will help to identify true reputable producers and protect their legitimate interests.

"Today the Head of State has set a high level — it is an accelerated modernization of enterprises, the replacement of all obsolete machine tools and the production focused on exports. We must more actively and objectively support domestic producers," said Pshembayev.

In this regard, for the further development of the industry, taking into account the instructions of the President, the draft Plan for the Development of the Machine-Building Industry of Kazakhstan for 2019-2030 has been developed.

"The Government has supported us, we are working on this program together with the MID RK, we want to identify the further perspectives with the business community, that is, we need to understand what types of goods to release in order to fulfill the needs of the domestic market and already become export-oriented,” Pshembayev explained.

The chairman of the union stressed that this document will become a a long-term strategic vision for the development of the industry. The draft of the Comprehensive Plan is to be presented and discussed within the framework of the VI Forum of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan, which will be held in Astana in September this year. It is expected that more than one thousand people from 30 countries of the world will take part in the forum.

It should be noted that for the five months of the current year the growth in the index of industrial machine-building production amounted to 12.2% compared to the same period last year. In monetary terms, the volume of production amounted to 384.6 billion tenge. For comparison, the growth of the entire manufacturing industry in Kazakhstan for the above period was 5.5%.

 

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