Product
Metallurgical Silicon
Infrastructure and Description of the Area
The plant is located in the Oktyabrsky district of Karagandy region, and is a member of Saryarka SEZ. The geographic location favors its competitiveness in terms of raw materials and end products logistics, both road and rail transportation are possible – located near the national significance highway A-17 Kyzylorda-Pavlodar – the plant has haul roads, own dead-end siding, concrete platforms for receiving goods, indoor and outdoor storage facilities for raw materials and end products.
Brief Description
Tau-Ken Temir LLP is a manufacturer of technical silicon with an annual output of 23,000 tons. The production complex of the plant is represented by two ore-thermal furnaces with a total capacity of 30 MVA each, as well as unique equipment of the German manufacturer SMS SIEMAG, one of the leaders in the market of production of electric furnaces with a submerged arc. The raw material base of the enterprise is the quartz deposit Aktas, owned by Silicon mining LLP. The deposit is located in the Ulytau district of the Karaganda region, 130 km northwest of Zhezkazgan. Quartz of this deposit is characterized by high purity, which makes it the most attractive raw material for the smelting of technical silicon of the highest grades. The total quartz reserve at the deposit is more than 4 million tons, while the annual production volume is 72 thousand tons of vein quartz.
As part of the implementation of the Comprehensive Privatization Plan approved by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Rules for the transfer to a competitive environment of assets of the Joint–Stock company National Welfare Fund Samruk–Kazyna and organizations, more than fifty percent of the voting shares (participation interests) of which are directly or indirectly owned by JSC Samruk–Kazyna, In 2024, an open two-stage competition was held to sell from 51% to 100% of the share in the authorized capital of the limited liability partnership “Tau–Ken Temir“ and from 51% to 100% of the share in the authorized capital of the limited liability partnership “Silicon mining“.
Following the results of the competition, a consortium consisting of Metaleen Investments Holdings LLC and TSP Alüminyum Anonim Şirketi acquired a 55% stake in the authorized capital of Tau–Ken Temir LLP and Silicon mining LLP.