Uzbekistan, Tashkent, March 7 / Trend D. Azizov /
The Uzkimyosanoat State Joint Stock Company (Uzhimprom) is implementing 13 investment projects worth $2.36 billion in 2013, deputy head of the company's investment department Maruf Abralov told media today.
He said the company will continue implementing a previous 10 projects, as well as start work on three new ones. It is planned to complete five investment projects of the total number in 2013.
In particular, the project to expand the capacity of the Dehkanabad potash fertilizer plant (the second stage) worth $254.8 million by late 2013 which will ensure an increase in output by 400,000 tons of calcium chloride and up to 620,000 tons annually will be completed this year.
Following on from this, other projects are to be finished this year. These are the production of yarn from nitron fibre with a capacity of 1.25 million tons, reconstruction of the production of sodium cyanide at Navoiazot, bringing nitric acid production AK-72 and AK-72M at the Maxam-Chirchik Company to the required design capacity, and expanding the production of thiourea at the Navoiazot Company up to 3000 tons per year.
Uzhimprom was formed in 2001.Currently it brings together 14 industrial enterprises, 13 regional distribution organisations, scientific research and design institutes and a brokerage company.
The company holds a leading position in Central Asia in terms of the volume and type of produced mineral nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers. It is the largest producer of ammonia, carbamide, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulphate and phosphate.
The production capacities enable Uzbekistan's domestic demand for chemical products to be reached as well as to export it.
According to Uzhimprom, the enterprises produced 1.221 million tons of mineral fertilizers in 2012 (an increase of 4.2 per cent compared to 2011), including 943,600 tons of nitrogen, 152,500 tons of phosphate and 125,300 tons of potash.
