OREANDA-NEWS. February 21, 2012. Uzbekistan decreased production of cement by 1.5% year-on-year in January-December of 2011, the State Statistics Committee said in its report.

According to the committee, the cement production enterprises manufactured 6.698 million tonnes of cement in the reporting period.

Currently, largest cement producers of Uzbekistan are Kyzylkumcement (3.1 million tonnes), Ahangarancment (1.74 million tonnes) and Quvasaycement (920,000 tonnes).

Share of cement industry in total production volume construction industry in Uzbekistan makes up about 72%.

Within the programme on priorities of industry development in Uzbekistan for 2011-2015, it is planned to implement several project on re-equipping and modernization of cement industry of Uzbekistan.