| Location: | Kostanay |
| Sector: | Industrial |
| Total cost: | $ 2.5 bln |
| Chinese partner: | Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. |
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| Construction start: | 2018 |
| Putting into commission: | n/a |
Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. founded in 1997, focuses on the development and practice of industrialized technology for biomanufacturing. The projects that have achieved large-scale industrialization include long-chain dibasic acids, bio-based pentane diamine, and bio-based polyamides. Cathay Bio has two working production bases and an R&D center located in China. The R&D center is located in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. Its industrialization development platform covers research in professional fields such as molecular biology, fermentation process engineering, and polymer materials. In recent years, Cathay has successfully developed the DN5 via bio-manufacturing and produced downstream bio-based polyamide with extraordinary performance benefits.
China-based company Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd intends to build a plant for the production of nylon by processing wheat and maize in Kazakhstan's Kostanay region. The firm has developed a unique technology for producing green nylon from non-food wheat and corn. The project is unique because it uses the newest innovative technology for obtaining nylon through deep processing of wheat and maize. The owner of this technology is Cathay Industrial Biotech Ltd. There are only two such plants in the world and both are in China.
The planned capacity of the plant is 500,000 tons per year, and the processing volume is 2.5 million tons of wheat and maize per year. The products will be used for the production of plastics, adhesives, flavors, lubricants and powder coatings. [1]