Uzbekistan is planning to increase the volume of production of construction glass by 1.3 times to 13 million square meters a year in 2011-2015.

Zerkalo XXI newspaper reported that currently Uzbekistan develops large investment in organization of production of architecture-construction glass in Navoi region.

The Uzbek side is searching for potential foreign investor. The capacity of the enterprise will be 200 tonnes of fluid glass a day. The preliminary cost of the project is estimated at US$50 million. New enterprise will be launched in the middle of 2015.

The newspaper said Uzbekistan is planning to implement three more small projects on organization of production of various glasses and glass products in Tashkent region.

Their total cost makes up US$60 million and total capacity will make up 250,000 square meters of construction glasses and 10,000 units of glass products, the paper added.

According to the State Statistics Committee, production of construction glasses in Uzbekistan made up 12.599 million square meters in 2010. The growth rate made up 22.7% year-on-year.

Largest and oldest enterprise of glass industry in Uzbekistan is Kvartz, OJSC (Quvasoy, Ferghana region). Share of the enterprise on the Uzbek market made up over 54% in 2010, according to estimates of Uzstroymaterialy.