According to the committee, the cement production enterprises manufactured 5.287 million tonnes of cement in the reporting period.

Currently, largest cement producers of Uzbekistan are Kyzylkumcement (3.1 million tonnes), Ahangarancment (1.74 million tonnes) and Quvasaycement (920,000 tonnes).

As reported earlier, Ahangarancment manufactured 1.3 million tonnes of cement in January-September 2011.

Share of cement industry in total production volume construction industry in Uzbekistan makes up about 72%.

Within the programme on priorities of industry development in Uzbekistan for 2011-2015, it is planned to implement several project on re-equipping and modernization of cement industry of Uzbekistan.