France and Kazakhstan have been implementing 10 joint projects with a total value of $1.1 billion, creating 2,000 new jobs. Six of these projects, worth $900 million, are already complete, according to Yersaiyn Nagaspayev, Kazakhstan’s minister of industry and construction, who spoke at the Kazakhstan-France business forum in Astana.
Counting already implemented projects, the minister mentioned Alstom’s locomotive production facility in Astana ($392 million); Schneider Electric’s pressure sensor production in the Atyrau region ($6.3 million); Vicat’s cement plant in the Zhambyl region ($467 million); Air Liquide’s compressed air and nitrogen facility in the Atyrau region ($16 million); Saint-Gobain’s building materials...