Hill Corporation lub production plant employs 300

This plant is the only one in the country which produces lubricants in accordance with world standards. The plant's construction started in 2009 in the framework of the state program of forced industrial-innovative development. According to director of business development of the plant Marat Mukanov, during start-up operation the plant's capacity reached 2.5 thousand tons of lubricants. At the present time this figure is amounted to 24 thousand tons of lubricants per year. The equipment installed at the plant allows increasing capacity to 100 thousand tons per year. Shymkent plant products have already been appreciated by large industrial companies including JSC "KMG EP", JSC "Intergas Central Asia", "Kazakhmys Corporation", JSC "Arcelor Mittal" and many others. Plant managers informed that in the near future they are going to conclude contracts with partners from Iran, Turkey, Ukraine, and Afghanistan. In 2016 the company plans to start production of base oils. The project cost is 235 billion tenge. The enterprise will create 2,000 new jobs, according to the regional department for business and industry. The design capacity of the new production plant will reach 7.5 million tons of base oils per year.