UZBEKISTAN NINE NEW ENTERPRISES
On the eve of the 21st anniversary of independence of Uzbekistan commissioned nine new light industry worth $ 101 million and the export potential of 126 million dollars, which created 3,380 jobs.
A briefing on the opening of the exhibition of textile machinery and technology CAITME in Tashkent, the first deputy chairman of the SAC `` O#39;zbekyengilsanoat Maqsood Mansurov.
At present, the `` Uzbeklegprom includes 282 enterprises engaged in textile and garment production. Of these, 133 are textile companies, 117 - sewing and knitting, and 32 - silk industry businesses. In general, the enterprises `` O#39;zbekyengilsanoat employs more than 64 thousand employees.
In the 21 years of independence Uzbekistan enterprises `` O#39;zbekyengilsanoat produced products worth about $ 21 trillion soums and consumer goods 5.2 trillion soums.
To date, the production capacity of spinning up 450,000 tons as 160 million linear meters.
Textile and garment and knitwear industry in the country ship products to the markets of the CIS, the European Union, China, the U.S., Canada, and a number of Arab countries.
In 2011, the share of light industry in GDP was 2.7% in the volume of industrial production - more than 26% in the production of food - more than 44%.
The volume of domestic processing of cotton fiber from the total produced in the country, from 7% in 1991, rose to 35% today.
Since that time, the industry attracted foreign investment of $ 1.8 billion and sold more than 150 major investment projects.
Only in the last two and a half years and put into operation 43 industrial enterprises worth 387 million dollars and the export potential of 245 million dollars, which created more than 13,000 jobs.
Among the largest - the company `` Buharateks design capacity of 52.5 million dollars and a production capacity of 16,000 tons of yarn per year. Up to 15,000 tons of yarn per year is capable of producing foreign company `Indorama Kokand Textile` established on the basis of Kokand Textile Mill. The cost of the project - $ 55 million.
The country is the restoration of textile machinery. On the basis of the former factory Uzbektekstilmash `` `jointly with the Swiss Ritter` created `foreign enterprise Ritter Uzbekistan`, which in October will produce a tape, carding and ring spinning machine.
