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Kazakhstan INDUSTRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | By 2002, about $800 million had been invested in the renamed Ispat Karmet, and output had risen from2.1 million tons of rolled steel in 1995 to 3.63 million tons in 2001 (still nearly 40% below pre-independence levels). |
 | | Most of Kazakhstan's manufacturing, refining and metallurgy plants are concentrated in the north and northeast, in Semey, Petropavl, and Aktobe. |
 | | In south-central Kazakhstan, Shymkent is an important center for chemicals, light manufactures, metallurgy, and food processing; Almaty is important for light industry, machine building, and food processing. |
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