Promelektromontaj Trust of Zarafshan construction department and construction-mounting trust AMMP will get 29.3 billion soums in 2012 for construction of a sulfuric acid plant in Navoi region and the acid factory at the smelter of Almalyk Mountain Metallurgical Plant. 7.7 billion soums (Exchange rate of CB 1USD-1835.75 soums) account for construction and installation works. Both projects were included in the program of contract construction in 2012.

The cost of a new project at NMMP with capacity of 650 tons of sulfuric acid is determined in the amount of $94 million, including $64 million of own means of the plant, $30 million - credit of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan.

The sources of financing of the new acid plant at the smelter of Almalyk MMP with capacity of 500 thousand tons and cost of $80.2 million are own funds of the plant in an amount equivalent to $21.2 million, the credit of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development ($30 million), credits of Ipoteka Bank in the total amount equivalent to $29 million.

Originally scheduled for 2015, commissioning of the sulfuric acid plant in Navoi region was moved to 2014 in the light of the Resolution the President of October 4, 2011 \"On urgent measures to increase production and development of new types of competitive products\". Commissioning of the acid plant at the Almalyk company is scheduled on 2013.

To speed up the work, construction companies of the plant are allowed to conduct construction and assembly works along with preparation of construction documents and perform construction works on their own up to April 1, 2012, the JSC Almalyk MMP informed.

According to Goskomstat, in 2010 Uzbekistan produced 1,192.6 thousand tons of sulfuric acid monohydrate. Of these, 394.8 thousand tons were produced in Navoi region, 797.8 thousand tons in Tashkent region.

According to experts, the main consumer of sulfuric acid is production of fertilizers, especially phosphorus ones. It is widely used in the uranium industry. A significant amount of product is consumed in processing of liquid fuels: to clean kerosene, paraffin, lubricating oils from sulfur and unsaturated compounds, as well as treatment of various mineral oils and fats. Sulfuric acid is also demanded by the leather and textile industries, metallurgy and other fields of industrial activity. (Source: UzReport.com)