Tiryaki Agro Holding, one of the largest agro-holdings in Turkey, intends to build a vegetable oil processing plant in the North Kazakhstan region, the regional administration announced.
The plant will be located in the Special Economic Zone «Qyzyljar» in Petropavlovsk. With a capacity of up to 1,500 tons of product per day, it will produce sunflower, rapeseed and flaxseed oils.
Details of the project were discussed during a meeting between Gov. Gauez Nurmukhambetov and Koksal Salih Yıldız, regional director at Tiryaki Agro.
«Our region is well known as a major producer of grain and oilseed crops, including sunflower, rapeseed and flax. The implementation of this vegetable oil processing plant is fully aligned with our priorities for developing the processing industry. Furthermore, the project will create new jobs, increase processing capacity and enhance the region’s investment attractiveness,» the governor said.
This is not Tiryaki Agro’s first project in Kazakhstan. The Turkish investor is also building a $320 million agro-industrial complex in Astana. The project is expected to create approximately 500 jobs and will include two wheat and pea processing plants.
Once fully operational, the plant will be able to process 250,000 tons of wheat and 80,000 tons of peas per year, producing high-value-added products such as starch, gluten, lysine, glucose-fructose syrup, compound feed and pea protein isolate. To implement the project, the Turkish company has partnered with the Development Bank of Kazakhstan.
