The engineering industry provides stable activities for other sectors of the economy
“The machine-building industry produces products with high added value and ensures the stable activity of other sectors of the economy – the agro-industrial complex, energy and metallurgical sectors, transport and many others, therefore its development has been and is a priority for the government of the country.
Over the years of industrialization, Kazakhstanis have learned to make new goods – electric locomotives, passenger cars, low-power tractors, trailers, balers, ventilation equipment, railway wheels, axles and other components for the railway industry, super-powerful transformers, the production of which is unique for the market Central Asia, modems and switching equipment and much, much more. “, The press service of the MIIR RK reports.
Along with the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, the industry is the most promising area for high-quality diversification of the economy. The creation of one job here entails the emergence of five to six jobs in related industries, therefore, the focus of state support primarily concerns this industry.
In the second five-year plan, state mechanisms were developed to support six priority sectors: automotive, oil and gas, mining and electrical equipment, agricultural and railway engineering. And the results were not long in coming. According to QazIndustry, in the period from 2009 to 2020, the volume of production in monetary terms increased 6.4 times, reaching a record high of 1.8 trillion tenge.
The Alageum Electric group of companies alone, for example, annually produces up to 300 names of new products, as demand grows, customer expectations and their requirements for equipment increase.
“Kazakhstan’s mechanical engineering has great prospects for building global value added production chains. This was not the case in the 90s. But at the moment, more and more enterprises are working together with major brands of the global mechanical engineering.
For example, the Silumin Vostok company in Ust-Kamenogorsk, in cooperation with the Schneider Electric company, produces electrical machine-building products that have a high export component. It is also worth noting the cooperation between AVZ LLP and the world famous LG Electronics in the production of air conditioning and ventilation systems. And such examples are enough.But the most important achievement of our country is that we were able to develop sectors in which Kazakhstan did not have competencies before.
” The flourishing of the industry and the commissioning of new capacities became possible thanks to a reasonable government policy towards domestic producers. In 2020, 3,007 enterprises were registered in the industry: 63 large, 102 medium and 2,842 small enterprises and about 14.2 thousand new jobs.
And taking into account related areas, we can talk about the creation of about 70-80 thousand jobs. Among the largest machine-building enterprises in Kazakhstan are SaryarkaAvtoProm LLP, EPK Stepnogorsk JSC, Kainar-AKB LLP, Kentau Transformer Plant JSC, Agromashholding KZ JSC, Atyrauneftemash JSC, AZTM JSC and JSC “PZTM”.
In fact, over 10 years, the number of engineering industries in our country has grown by 76.8%. Before the start of the industrialization program, there were less than 1,700 of them.