Baku, Azerbaijan, April 20
Trend:
Tajikistan produced 774,000 tons of cement in the 1Q2018, which is 348,000 tons more than in the 1Q2017, the press service of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan said in a statement.
During the reported period, 322,000 tons of cement were exported to Uzbekistan (172,000 tons), Afghanistan (131,000 tons) and Kyrgyzstan (19,000 tons).
Export to Uzbekistan increased by 162,000 tons (16.3 times), to Kyrgyzstan – by 16,800 tons (6 times), and to Afghanistan – on the contrary, decreased by 10,600 tons (by 8.8 percent).
It was reported earlier that a new plant for the dry production of cement will be built in Uzbekistan.
The agreement on the implementation of the project worth over $160 million was signed by Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eurocement Filaret Galchev and Chairman of the Board of Uzstroymaterialy Botir Zaripov.
The construction will be carried out by the Chinese Beijing Triumph International Engineering Co. company (part of the CNBM industrial group). The new plant will become the largest cement enterprise in Central Asia.
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