OREANDA-NEWS. On July 24 2008 The Head of the state participated in presentation of the “Damu” industrial and logistics center in Ili district, reported the Official website www.akorda.kz.

"Damu” industrial and logistics centre is a territory of production facilities, administrative structures, infrastructural and storage premises, established for development of transport and logistics infrastructure, both domestic and foreign small and medium business.

Construction of this center became the first stage in realization of the “Amanat Invest Group” company’ project which plans to establish a network of the industrial and logistics centers across Kazakhstan.

The total volume of investments attracted in the “Damu” center amounted to more than 150 million US dollars. About 870 experts are working in the centre at present.

More than 20 international and domestic companies are among the partners of the “Amanat Invest Group”.

“Kazakhstan has significant transport and transit potential, and I am very glad that development of the logistics centers in Almaty, Astana and Аktobe has started”, Nursultan Nazarbayev told.

Today within the framework of the visit to the Almaty region Nursultan Nazarbayev has also surveyed production workshops of KNAUF Gypsum Kapchagai LLB. The German company KNAUF privatized this enterprise and the investment contract amounting to 19, 5 million US dollars had been successfully implemented in 2004.

The project capacity of the Kapchagai plant is 26 million square meters of gypsum wallboards per year, more than 20 per cent of which is produced for export.

Nursultan Nazarbayev also visited the “Silk City 3 D Constriction” Ltd in Kapchagai town.

This enterprise produces three layers panel made of foamed polystyrene stuff which is widely used in large panel construction.

On the territory of the plant the Head of the state visited an exhibition of goods from the leading Kapchagai enterprises.

Almaty region is one of the most densely populated regions of the country. There are more than 1, 7 million people live here. Since 2005 the production output has increased twofold.

The new university will be constructed in the Almaty region near Kaskelen as well as the “Alatau” Information Technologies Park is being developed near Almaty.

“Despite of financial difficulties the volume of construction works not only decreased, but it increased. 400 thousand square meters of residential housing had been constructed last year. This year, we need to construct half a million square meters. Deposits are growing; the agriculture sphere has been successfully developed. We are starting construction of hydroelectric power stations on the small rivers. The first Hydroelectric Power Station will be put into operation on the river Yesyk’, the President of the country stressed.