Khimia exhibition participant Bashkir Soda Company strengthening presence in Central Asia

Cooperation of the Bashkir Soda Company (BSC) with Kazakhstani colleagues opens up new opportunities for creating import-substituting industries with the development of new branches of industry within the framework of cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan.

At a meeting with the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which took place within the framework of the working visit of the delegation of Bashkortostan to Nur-Sultan, General Director of the Bashkir Soda Company Eduard Davydov said that BSC intends to build mutually advantageous and long-term foreign economic relations with enterprises of the chemical and mining industries of Kazakhstan. This intention is already being successfully implemented - JSC BSC and JSC Caustic (Pavlodar) signed this summer an agreement the main thesis of which is the joint development of the production site with engagement of the BSC engineering potential.

As part of building mutually advantageous industrial cooperation, it is planned to create a joint venture with JSC Caustic in order to build a number of high-tech industries that will ensure effective comprehensive processing of raw materials from titanium-zircon deposits of the Republic of Kazakhstan into high-value products demanded by the market. The partners plan to involve interested enterprises in the technological process of product processing. Within the framework of cooperation with the Kazakh partner, the issue of construction in the region of mining and processing plants, a selective beneficiation plant, an industrial complex for output of high-value products based on zircon raw materials is being worked out. It is also planned to build a pigment titanium dioxide production facility in the territory of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The heads of the enterprises are confident that the developed project of industrial cooperation will create new jobs, lead to the establishment of new industries within the framework of the Customs Union, provide import substitution in key areas of the chemical and paint-and-varnish industry, and increase tax revenues to the budgets of several regions of Kazakhstan and Russia.

For many years, BSC has been continuously supplying Kazakhstani consumers with soda ash and caustic soda, sodium bicarbonate and other chemical products. The trade turnover between BSC and consumers of the Republic of Kazakhstan is expected to reach 203,000 metric tons, the amount of revenue - 44 million US dollars, exclusive of VAT, in 2021. The largest share in the export of products manufactured by BSC was soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hydroxide and other products.

Bashkir Soda Company is a participant in Khimia 2021, the 24th International Exhibition for the Chemical Industry and Science.

We invite everyone to visit our Stand 22C30 at the Khimia 2021 exhibition.