The only producer of ammonia and ammonium nitrate in Kazakhstan, KazAzot JSC increases its capacity, increasing labor productivity with the support of the Kazakhstan Center for Industry and Export "QazIndustry "JSC.

The company was founded in 2005 on the basis of the property complex of the Nitrogen-tuk plant. The company employs 1,267 employees.

Currently, the production capacity of the plant is 200,000 tons per year of ammonia, 360,000 tons per year of nitric acid and ammonium nitrate, as well as gas production of 916 million m3 per year.

Ammonium nitrate is in great demand among agricultural producers and industrial enterprises (mining, nuclear industry, metallurgical industry) and is exported in large quantities.

In 2020, KazAzot covered 45% of the domestic market (252 thousand tons of ammonium nitrate). The company is the largest exporter of the Mangystau region and sells products both to the countries of the near and far abroad. Deliveries are made to Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
In 2021, a project was launched to purchase and operate 30 tank cars for the transportation of liquid ammonia. The load capacity of each tank car is 56 tons. The project cost is 711 million tenge. Ammonia is one of the most important products of the chemical industry and serves as a raw material for the production of mineral fertilizers and numerous nitrogen-containing industrial substances.

According to Aizhan Balabatyrova, Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of KazAzot JSC, this year the company plans to produce 360 thousand tons of ammonium nitrate, and next year it plans to increase production capacity to 400 thousand tons.

In addition, this company was one of the first to launch online sales of fertilizers on the website Qoldau.kz.

Today KazAzot is a dynamically developing enterprise, where new technologies are being introduced. The planned replacement of outdated equipment is being carried out. In order to ensure energy security, a gas-piston power plant (GPP) was built at the enterprise.

In 2020, JSC "Kazakhstan Center for Industry and Export "QazIndustry" through the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan to increase labor productivity as part of the costs of improving technological processes and attracting qualified foreign labor, and received reimbursement of costs in the amount of about 27 million tenge.
The company used all the funds received for the further development of the enterprise and maintaining its stable level.

Recall that QazIndustry, through the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, reimburses part of the costs of manufacturing enterprises associated with increasing labor productivity under the industrialization program.

Thus, up to 40% of the costs incurred for improving the competence of the enterprise, for the development and examination of a comprehensive plan of an industrial and innovative project related to improving technological processes and increasing the efficiency of production organization. More information about the tools can be found in the section "Business Promotion" on the website www.qazindustry.gov.kz.