Uzbek-Korean JV to launch technical silicon plant in March
TASHKENT. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Uzbek-Korean joint venture Uz-Shindong Silicon will put a plant that will produce technical silicon in the Tashkent region into operation next month.
"We will launch a technical silicon plant with designed capacity of six thousand tonnes per year in the Angren special industrial zone in March," the chairman of the JV's co-founder Shindong Enercom, Inc., Yun Seek Kim, said during a Uzbekistan/South Korean business forum on Thursday.
The project price tag is $5.9 million.
Uz-Shindong Silicon was set up in 2008 by the Uzbek state committee for geology and mineral resources Goskomgeo and Shindong Enercom, Inc. to do geological survey work and develop quartz and quartzite deposits and build a technical silicon plant. OJSC Uzmetkombinat joined the JV later.
This is the second technical silicon production project carried out in Uzbekistan together with Korea. In August of 2012, the JV Uz-Kor Silicom - set up by Goskomgeo, OJSC Navoiazot, and Korea's Neoplant - put into operation a $20.8 million technical silicon plant in the Navoi region.
Down the road, the two JVs plan to develop the production of monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon.