QURGHON TEPPA, March 29, 2011, Asia-Plus — One of Tajikistan’s largest industrial enterprises, TojikAzot, is expected to resume operations in April this year, Abdujabbor Bahodurov, deputy governor of Khatlon province, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.
The supply of natural-gas to the enterprise has been resumed and we hope the enterprise will resume operations on April 10,” Bahodurov said, noting that all specialists working with the enterprise have been recalled from the forced vacations.
TojikAzot, which is the country’s largest carbamide producer, has not been in operation for more than two years due to lack of natural gas and major part of its workers were forced to take unpaid vacations.
Closed joint-stock company (CJSC) TojikAzot is the joint venture that was launched in March 2002 in cooperation with Highrock Holding Limited, the company registered in Cyprus in 2001. The JV was established on the basis of the plant for producing nitrogen fertilizer that was constructed in Sarband in 1964. Tajikistan owns 20 percent of the shares and Highrock Holding Ltd assumes the 80 percent ownership interest in TojikAzot.
The enterprise with rated capacity of 180,000 tons of carbamide per year also produces industrial oxygen, carbon dioxide, liquid ammonia and liquid nitrogen.
