Operating marble plant returned to state

Kyrgyz Too Tash marble and porcelain tile plant in Tokmak city has been transferred to state ownership. The press center of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) reported.

The facility was transferred to the balance of the State Property Management Agency as part of the investigation into the money laundering. The plant was returned to the state as an illegally privatized industrial facility.

The enterprise, according to the information of SCNS, operates on an industrial scale. It is engaged in the production of marble and porcelain tile, as well as sand and gravel mixture. The plant has its own raw material base, including quarries, a railway access road and a vehicle fleet. Modern equipment was imported from Italy, and the monthly production volume of facing slabs exceeds 30,000 square meters.

Kyrgyz Too Tash dates back to the 1960s, when the plant was of all-Union significance and supplied construction materials to cities of the Soviet Union. More than 60 percent of municipal buildings in Bishkek were built using the company’s products. To date, the bulk of the products are export-oriented, SCNS reported.