# Alageum Electric to build high-power transformer plant in Kazakhstan

Alageum Electric is building a new plant in Kazakhstan to produce high-power transformers (110 kV and above), creating up to 220 jobs and expected to reduce transformer imports by 50-70%.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-02-06
- Where: Shymkent, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
- Value: $54.0M (17.5B KZT)
- Jobs: 220
- Starts operating: Q3 2018
- Status: under construction
- Products: high-power transformers (110 kV and above)
- Sectors: [Electrical Equipment](https://endata.com/sectors/electrical-equipment.md)

## Companies

- [Alageum Electric](https://endata.com/companies/22004.md)

## Sources

- [magnitogorsk.metallprofil.ru](https://magnitogorsk.metallprofil.ru/about/news/stroitelstvo-novogo-zavoda-alageum-electric-po-proizvodstvu-vysokomoshchnykh-transformatorov/), 2018-02-06: "Строительство нового завода позволит расширить мощности Alageum Electric по производству высокомощных (от 110 кВ и выше) трансформаторов и, таким образом, удовлетворить большую часть возрастающих потребностей казахстанского рынка в данной продукции."
- [astanatimes.com](https://astanatimes.com/2018/02/alageum-electric-expands-export-borders/), 2018-02-19: "We are already building a new plant (Asia Trafo) for the production of power transformers in Shymkent."

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