About 100 large and medium-sized enterprises operate in MMC
Over 600 delegates take part in the event, including Kazakhstani commodity producers, mining and metallurgical companies, businesses of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as representatives of central and local executive state bodies.
As the organizers noted, the holding of the forum with the participation of the MMC companies will allow establishing a new format for discussing important issues of cooperation with commodity producers in Kazakhstan, as well as presenting new solutions and projects on energy efficiency and reducing the cost of supplied products.
The forum participants raised the issue of qualitative increase of the indicator on local content in the mining and metallurgical industry. In particular, the review on Kazakhstan content in the mining industry, an open discussion of the positive experience and existing problems of suppliers, as well as participants' view on the import substitution problem.
"The mining and metallurgical complex is one of the competitive and dynamically developing sectors of Kazakhstan's economy. In this industry, about 100 large and medium-sized enterprises operate. These enterprises create a significant volume of orders for potential suppliers of other industries, such as machine building, chemical and light industry, production of building materials. Thus, for example, subsoil users of the mining complex and backbone enterprises from domestic producers purchased goods, works and services totaling 995.7 billion tenge, which is 43.5% of the total purchase. In other words, there is still considerable potential for domestic producers in the domestic market and opportunities for increasing production volumes", First Vice-Minister for Investments and Development of Kazakhstan Alik Aidarbayev said.
At the end of the plenary session, the top management of five companies-organizers - "Kazakhmys Holding" LLP, Eurasian Resources Group, "KazZinc" LLP, KAZ Minerals Group and JSC "MMC "Kazakhaltyn" - signed a memorandum of mutual cooperation for the development of local content. The subject of the memorandum is the interaction of the sides in order to strengthen relations and expand cooperation in the development of local content in the procurement of goods, works and services.
Traditionally, the Forum hosts an exhibition of domestic enterprises and suppliers of Kazakhstani products. Local suppliers have the opportunity to directly meet with partners and on absolutely free basis: to conduct negotiations, present products and find customers. The organized exhibition demonstrates the potential of Kazakhstan's commodity producers, new production facilities and an increase in the range of manufactured goods.
It should be noted that the forum "Creating Kazakhstani products" is a project to support and develop domestic producers in all regions of Kazakhstan. The forum raises issues of systemic measures to support the enterprises of the mining industry on the territory of our country, to increase the competitiveness of their goods and services, to support Kazakhstani commodity producers and to develop small and medium-sized businesses. For 7 years, the event became a nationwide dialogue platform for international and domestic suppliers to discuss and supply products, introduce new technologies and other types of cooperation.
