BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 18
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
The Turkmen Yelken company, manufacturing construction materials, plans to establish a production line for large-sized bags, Trend reports with reference to the Business Turkmenistan information portal.
Currently, the company produces polypropylene bags for food and agricultural products, and cement. There is also a production of large-sized sandwich panels for construction purposes.
Polypropylene of the domestic Türkmenplen brand is used as a raw material in production.
The building materials industry is gaining momentum in Turkmenistan. A powerful construction cluster is being created in the Ovadandepe industrial zone of the Gokdepe district of Turkmenistan's Ahal region.
Among the products manufactured by the local construction, enterprises are the facing stone, cement, bricks, non-metallic building materials, metal structures, plastic, and fiberglass pipes.
Turkmenistan’s abundant natural resources allow increasing the production of expanded clay, the main component for which is mudstone, extracted at the Yagmansky field in the Balkan region.
The priority sphere of the building materials industry is the production of good cement for the oil and gas industry as well as the cement of various grades, including portland cement (sulfate-resistant cement), which is used in laying foundations, construction of bridge supports, and hydraulic structures.
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