The French government has decided to allocate grant funds of USD 575,000 to the Fives Stein company to develop a feasibility study for the construction of a new plant in the Jizzakh region, following talks held in France between the delegation of Uzbekistan headed by the deputy khokim of the Jizzakh region Azim Akhmedkhadjayev and the French company representatives.
The project is planned to create facilities to produce architectural and automotive glass in the Jizzakh region. The plant will be designed to produce 600 tons of glass per day and provide more than 200 jobs, with a total investment of more than USD 100 million.
Following these talks, an agreement was also signed between the Jizzakh regional government and the Fives Stain company for further cooperation in this direction.
Fives Stein SA designs and constructs high technology furnaces and thermal equipment for steel and glass. It offers thermal equipment, including reheat furnaces, heat treatment furnaces, and steel strip processing lines to produce steel products that include furnaces for long and flat products, forging and heat treatment furnaces, hot-dip galvanizing lines, annealing lines, coil coating lines, combined galvanizing and painting lines, and process control systems, and thermal equipment and assemblies for the production of float, patterned, hollow, fiber, and special glasses.