Several industrial projects started in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, Astana, July 3 / Trend D. Mukhtarov / Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has today launched industrial projects during the teleconference with the regions. The project of restoring and reconstructing the Ekibastuz GRES-1 thermal power station in the Pavlodar region, building the Bozshakol processing plant, a new refinery in Astana (9999 pure gold production) and the two railroads Zhezkazgan - Beineu and Arkalyk - Shubarkol have been launched. The project of restoring and reconstructing the Ekibastuz thermal power station envisages the restoration of the eighth energy block with the installation of new electrostatic cleaners. The reconstruction of the energy block will allow increasing the available power of the station from 2,500 MW to 3,000 MW by late 2012. The installation of electrostatic cleaners will increase the efficiency of ash collection system. Total investments amounted to 23 billion 400 million tenge. The Bozshakol processing plant is being constructed in accordance with international standards of construction. At present, this is the first and only project in the CIS project of this level and scale. After commissioning, the plant will provide metallurgical enterprises with raw materials for 45 or more years and will begin development of the copper industry in the Pavlodar region. The capacity of the plant is 100,000 copper concentrate per year. Total investments amounted to 255 billion tenge. After a new refinery in Astana is commissioned, all kinds of gold-bearing raw materials will be processed in the territory of Kazakhstan. The capacity of the plant will hit 25 tons of refined gold and 50 tons of silver per year. Zhezkazgan-Beineu railway line construction will ensure a direct way of goods from the central region of Kazakhstan and Dostyk station to the western region of Kazakhstan to Europe by reducing the transportation distance by 1,200 km from the east to the west of the country. The project implementation will allow transporting export and transit cargo with a volume to 26.2 and 4 million tons per year, respectively. Arkalyk-Shubarkol railway line construction will ensure transportation servicing of the Shubarkul coal deposit and the adjacent ore deposits by reducing the transportation distance in a northerly direction by 700 kilometers. Moreover, the railway will create favorable conditions to develop agricultural production of grain and livestock by increasing the railway transport servicing of several areas in the Karaganda region. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az