ASTANA, Kazakhstan, January 25. A multi-brand car production plant, "Astana Motors Manufacturing Kazakhstan, is being built in Kazakhstan, said the founder of Astana Motors Nurlan Smagulov, Trend reports.
He made the remark during a meeting with the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Nurlan Smagulov noted that the plant will produce Chery, GWM (Haval), and Changan cars.
Thus, the plant's capacity will be 90,000 units per year. Of these, 40 percent will go to the domestic market, and 60 percent will be exported.
As Smagulov pointed out, completion of construction is scheduled for February 2025.
Meanwhile, 12,961 units of vehicles were produced in Kazakhstan in November 2023, with a total value of 162.1 billion tenge (about $352.7). This is 15.6 percent more than the same period in 2022 (11,216 units and 132.2 billion tenge, or about $287 million).
At the same time, in total, based on the results of eleven months, 136,909 units of vehicles of all types were produced in Kazakhstan worth over 1.65 trillion tenge (about $3.6 billion), which is 37.4 percent more than in the same period in 2022.
