Kungrad Soda Plant exports 23,000 tonnes of soda ash

The plant supplies soda ach to machinery and chemical industries’ enterprises of Uzbekistan and neighbouring countries - Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

Kungrad Soda Plant was commissioned in August 2006. The Kungrad Soda Plant cost the founders US$100 million. The designed capacity of the plant is 100,000 tonnes of soda ash a year.

The plant produced 71,000 tonnes of soda ash in 2008 and plans to increase this number to 75,000 tonnes.

Uzbekistan annually consumes about 56,000 tonnes of soda ash a year.