Mechanical engineering of Kazakhstan Mechanical engineering is the basic backbone branch of the economy of any industrialized state. By producing all kinds of production equipment (machines, machine tools, mechanisms, devices and assemblies, including cars), as well as consumer goods for the population, this industry ensures the technological sustainability of key sectors of the economy - energy, mining and metallurgical and agro-industrial complexes, construction and transport industries .
At the same time, mechanical engineering is a complex differentiated industry that combines 42 sub-sectors, including metalworking.
All over the world, mechanical engineering is recognized as one of the industries that generate the greatest technological "complexity" of the economy; the provision of the economy with high-quality human capital largely depends on the stable functioning and intensive development of mechanical engineering.
In addition, mechanical engineering has a high multiplier effect on related industries (service, sales, logistics, insurance, banking, marketing), creates demand for highly productive services, being one of the most innovative industries, contributes to the complexity of manufactured products, a steady increase in export earnings , and as a result, replenishment of the state budget, technological progress and a general increase in the quality of life of the population.
Kazakhstan's mechanical engineering covers 10 types of economic activity, including the production of steel and finished metal products, metal casting, the production of computers, electronic and optical products, the production of electrical equipment; production of machinery and equipment not included in other categories; auto and other vehicles, repair and installation of machinery and equipment.
During the years of industrialization in Kazakhstan, the production of new types of engineering products has been organized: passenger and freight cars, locomotives, railway wheels, turnouts, transformers, cable and wire products, batteries, production of spare parts for machinery and equipment for mining, oil and gas enterprises mechanical engineering mastered such products as shut-off valves, gas filtering equipment, pumping equipment, etc.
Oil and gas, electrical engineering, railway, mining and metallurgical, agricultural and motor vehicle engineering are developing dynamically.
For example, Kazakh enterprises have already mastered 5 out of 10 thousand components of spare parts and equipment used in the production of railway transport. In the automotive industry, a real transfer of modern technologies and competencies is taking place, the latest production and technological processes are being introduced, a new generation of highly qualified personnel is being brought up, and the localization of production is deepening.
In total, today in the machine-building industry of Kazakhstan there are more than 3 thousand operating enterprises, which employ 62 thousand workers.
The total contribution of the machine-building complex to the industrial production of the country increased by 2.2 times (from 3.1% in 2010 to 6.8% in 2020), the manufacturing industry - by 1.4 times (from 9.8% to 13. 9% respectively).
Even at the end of the crisis year of 2020, the volume of production of engineering products amounted to 1.8 trillion tenge, IFO - 16.3%.
The volume of production in the engineering industry for the period January-April 2021 amounted to 648.2 billion tenge, the industrial production index increased by 20.6% compared to the same period last year.
The Union of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan, in connection with the dissemination of materials on the Internet and messengers regarding the development of mechanical engineering in Kazakhstan, containing unfounded and inconsistent data with the aim of manipulating public opinion, reports the following.
The profile state body for the development of domestic engineering is the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The statistical data operated by the state bodies of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan are official and constitute the position of the state on the development of engineering in the country.
The Union of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan calls to trust only official sources of information.