APRIL 19 2024 (The Bulletin) — Flight Design, a German light aircraft manufacturer, said that it would start producing in Kazakhstan. Analysts said that the push to produce light aircraft in Kazakhstan showed that the country’s manufacturing base was developing and that the market for small aircraft was also growing.
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— This story was published in issue 565 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on April 23 2024
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APRIL 17 2024 (The Bulletin) — Armenia could soon start manufacturing its own drones, its minister for hi-tech industry, Mkhitar Hayrepetyan, said. He said that Armenia’s defence ministry had already placed orders worth $305m with manufacturers for what he described as “moderate quality” drones. Armenia is trying to arm itself with more sophisticated weapons to close the tech gap with Azerbaijan.
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— This story was published in issue 565 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on April 23 2024
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JULY 22 2021 (The Bulletin) — Data published by Uzbekistan’s State Statistics Committee said that output at Uzbek industries was 8.5% higher in the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2020. Most metrics in the Statistic Committee’s twice-a-year data release showed that Uzbek the economy was growing. The one sector that didn’t show much of an increase was construction, a key driver of the economy, which showed growth compared to the same period in 2020 of just 0.1%.
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— This story was published in issue 493 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on July 22 2021
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JULY 20 2021 (The Bulletin) — In a clear pitch for Russia’s aviation business, Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin said that he wanted to deepen Russia’s cooperation in the aviation sector with other member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Mr Putin was speaking at the opening of the MAKS 2021, air show in Zhukovsky, Russia. The EAEU includes Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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— This story was published in issue 493 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on July 22 2021
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MARCH 5 2021 (The Bulletin) — Uzbekistan will set up a factory producing electric scooters, media reported. Details were scant but reports said that the scooters would be built at a factory in the Kokand special economic zone and that the unnamed business hoped to produce 4,500 annually, rising to 23,500 by the end of 2022.
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— This story was published in issue 474 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on March 5 2021
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MARCH 5 (The Bulletin) — Uzbek and Belorussian officials agreed a deal for MAZ, the state-owned Belorussian lorry and bus producer, to set up an assembly plant in Uzbekistan. Since the death of former president Islam Karimov in 2016, Uzbekistan tried to rival Kazakhstan as a base for car and vehicle manufacturing in Central Asia.
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— This story was published in issue 475 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on March 15 2021
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MARCH 1 2021 (The Bulletin) — Kazakhstan’s Tengri Partners/IHS Market PMI index, a measure of manufacturing confidence, increased to 48.5 in February from a nine month low of 45.6 in January. Explaining the data, Anuar Ushbayev, managing partner at Tengri Partners, said that sentiment reflected a slowing of the economic downturn linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
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— This story was published in issue 474 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on March 5 2021
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JULY 24 (The Bulletin) — Kazakhstan Temir Zholy plans to sell its Tulpar Wagon manufacturing plant, a factory that Kazakh officials often hold up as one of the most advanced in the country. Media reported that a joint venture between Spain’s Talgo and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy ended in 2019. Kazakhstan Temir Zholy did not say how much they expected to raise from the sale.
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— This story was published in issue 455 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on July 31 2020.
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APRIL 1 (The Bulletin) — Kazakh car factory SaryarkaAutoProm in Kostanay launched the start of production of Chevrolet cars under licence from Uzbekistan’s state-owned UzAuto. Company officials said that it wanted to produce 26,000 cars in the first year, rising to 100,000 in later years. The expansion into Kazakhstan was planned by UzAuto before the spread of the coronavirus.
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— This story was first published in issue 441 of the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin
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DEC. 15 2019 (The Bulletin) — Kazakhstan Engineering will begin assembling 17 Russian Mi-171 transport helicopters next year, the Kazakh government said in a statement. All 17 helicopters will be manufactured in Russia and will be bought by either Kazakhstan’s National Guard or its Emergencies Ministry. Kazakhstan Engineering described the deal as a “significant step in the development of Kazakhstan’s helicopter industry”.
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— This story was first published in issue 432 of the weekly Bulletin on Dec. 27 2019
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