Individual enterprise "Sabur Timur Tashevler" (STT) has increased the variety and volume of production of building materials made from local raw materials,

The enterprise, which has been engaged in production for more than two decades, is located in the Koytendag etrap of the Lebap velayat. The main raw material for these products is local gypsum. The company produces various types of products, such as reinforced concrete slabs, glue, building gypsum, tile adhesive, industrial salt, lime, dry building mixes, drywall.

Glue for tiles is packaged in containers of 20 kg, and primer for painting - in containers of 30 kg. The entire production system is automated and controlled by an operator. The company employs about 120 specialists. The plant is designed to produce 50,000 tons of dry building mixes with a capacity of 2 million square meters per year. STT exports its products to Tajikistan, Russia and Uzbekistan.

It should be noted that the need to create modern enterprises specializing in the processing of the richest natural resources, expanding the range of building materials that are not inferior in their characteristics to foreign counterparts is one of the urgent tasks in the context of the industrial development vector and increasing the export potential of the national economy of Turkmenistan.

It is important to note that the southeastern region of Turkmenistan has unique aboveground and underground raw materials resources. In the process of geological surveys in the bowels of the Magdanly-Garlyk region in the Koytendag etrap of the Lebap velayat, the presence of more than 30 types of minerals and other minerals was confirmed. In the Koytendag etrap, in the east of the country, almost all the necessary raw materials for the production of cement - limestone, clay, gypsum, quartz sand - are mined here.

The largest deposits of rock and potash salt, gypsum, anhydrides, as well as celestine used in the electronic industry are concentrated in this region of Turkmenistan. The bowels of the mountainous region contain germanium, cerium, tantalum, rubidium and other rare earth metals.