Dec 19, 2024
Prime
Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov during his working trip to Kostanay
region got acquainted with the industrial potential of the region. Fulfilment
of the President's instructions, voiced in the Address, on development of high
conversion and increasing the level of localisation was checked.
The
Head of the Government was informed that for 11 months of this year the volume
of industrial production in Kostanay region reached 2.5 trillion tenge, the
share of manufacturing industry exceeded 72%. This year 6 industrial projects
worth 124.7 billion tenge were implemented in the region, 1,301 jobs were
created.
Olzhas
Bektenov familiarised himself with the technological process and the company's
plans to build a new plant aimed at the production of steel billets at Caspian
Steel QZ. The capacity of the existing plant is 450 thousand tonnes per year.
Thus, for 10 months of this year 311.4 thousand tonnes of rolled steel and 10.9
thousand tonnes of scrap metal were produced. The plant's products cover
domestic needs and are sold on foreign markets. Since the beginning of the
year, 112.6 thousand tonnes of small section rolled steel products worth more
than 32 billion tenge have been exported.