ANKARA
Uzbekistan is moving toward transforming its estimated $3 trillion in mineral wealth, including rare earth elements (REEs), into high-value-added products through a new industrial partnership modeled after Türkiye’s Organized Industrial Zone system.
Ankara-based industrial zone operator OSTIM recently signed a deal with the Uzbek Technological Metals Complex (TMK) to outline and develop plans for these industrial processing zones.
Infrastructure preparations have been completed for more than 100 hectares (247.1 acres) of land across three regions under the project, known as Future Metals Technoparks.
OSTIM Chair Orhan Aydin said the operator would connect Uzbek TMK with Türkiye’s high-tech manufacturing network, providing direct access to Turkish institutions that rely heavily on strategic materials.
The project in Uzbekistan builds on OSTIM’s track record in the Central Asian country, where it previously provided consulting, feasibility reports and legislative development for the technology industrial zone in the eastern city of Ohangaron.
The operator is also the primary implementer of the Uzbek-Turkish Organized Industrial Zone under construction in the Uzbek capital Tashkent.
The Tashkent facility has already attracted foreign capital and industrial expertise, securing direct investments from Turkish firms HEKTAS and EVYAP.
