This year, eight projects worth 169 billion tenge are expected to be implemented in the non-ferrous metallurgy of Kazakhstan. This is the production of aluminum radiators, copper cathodes, Doré alloys and other products. When fully implemented, the projects will create about 2,000 jobs. This was reported by the Directorate for Monitoring and Analysis of Project Implementation at QazIndustry.

“When all eight projects reach their designed capacity, production volumes will amount to about 136 billion tenge, including 71 billion tenge worth of products planned for export,” the statement says.

In total, at the stage of implementation in non-ferrous metallurgy there are

49 projects (including eight for 2024) for 1.8 trillion tenge. The start of production will provide jobs for more than 11 thousand citizens, of which about 7,400 are residents of rural areas and 377 are from single-industry towns.

The planned production volume when all 49 projects reach their design capacity will be about 2.3 trillion tenge. At the same time, the volume of exports in monetary terms will amount to more than half - by 1.4 trillion tenge.

Last year, five projects worth 26.8 billion tenge were implemented in the non-ferrous metallurgy and 835 jobs were created. These are enterprises producing non-ferrous metal alloys, doré alloys (gold-silver alloy obtained from gold deposits and sent to refineries for subsequent purification), zinc products and other productions.

Let us recall that non-ferrous metallurgy is one of the largest and leading sectors of domestic industry. Its development is facilitated by a sufficient amount of its own raw material base with reserves of non-ferrous metal ores - copper, zinc, nickel, lead, aluminum, gold, silver.

The largest number of ongoing projects are in the Karaganda region and the city of Shymkent.