"Natige" brings quality. A new line has been introduced at the Karaganda Dairy Plant (Kazakhstanskaya Pravda)
"That time has come right now – and this is the positive side of any crisis, when new businesses and new enterprises are being created. Whoever is more efficient will be able to build their own business..." the Head of State supported the creative initiative of the country's entrepreneurs in July this year during a nationwide teleconference and stressed that the agricultural sector occupies a significant place in the industrial program of Kazakhstan.
This is confirmed by Karaganda Dairy Plant LLP, where a new production line was commissioned by the 20th anniversary of the country's Independence. This is one of the investment projects of KazAgroFinance JSC, which over the 11 years of its existence has invested 11 billion tenge in the development of the agro-industrial complex of the region, including more than 621 million tenge in the processing industry. In 2009, the foundation of the future workshop for new technology was laid on a vacant lot in Karaganda. A year later, the credit committee of KazAgroFinance JSC (KAF) approved financing for the purchase of refrigeration equipment and a dairy production line.
KAF's investments in the project worth more than 183 million tenge amounted to more than 69%. The rest was invested by the owner, who must repay the main debt to the budget within 8 years at 4% per annum. In creating a modern milk processing plant, Karaganda residents preferred the equipment of the well-known Swiss company Tetrapak. Foreign specialists carried out the installation and commissioning of the line.
The installation work was left behind, and the refrigeration equipment and the production line were completely transferred according to the acceptance certificate. Now, when a conveyor of multicolored packages is moving smoothly to the warehouse, and fermented milk products of all kinds are delivered to consumers in the region and to Astana, it can be argued that the first large dairy enterprise with cardinal modernization and high production capacity was born in the region, which is planned to be launched within five years.
The first thing that caught my eye when I got acquainted with the workshop was the ligature of shiny pipes around elegant, despite the volumes, tanks for storing and fermenting dairy products for 1,000 liters each. Bio kefir, sour cream, kefir, drinks "Snowball" and "Narine", milk, well-known to the townspeople under the trademark "Natizhe" ("Result"), are prepared in 18 tanks that cast silver, similar to giant samovars.
A closed loop for each name in strict accordance with the technology. The process of product birth begins with ... centralized tank washing, eliminating dependence on the human factor in the sanitary condition of large and small containers. The executive director of the KMK, Saule Zhankina, also started our tour with her. The factory works only with natural milk. It is delivered by milk trucks from farms in Shetsky, Abaysky, Osakarovsky districts. There are different volumes in different seasons. In summer, up to 45 tons of milk are processed per day, and in autumn up to 17 tons of milk.
A Swiss pasteurizer designed for 10 tons of milk per hour, a homogenizer that ensures a uniform consistency of the product, cream separators, impurity cleaners and a deaerator are another century, Nina Katkova, head of the laboratory, who has spent 35 years working in the dairy industry, and Olga Tomasevich, an experienced technologist, are not happy. They have seen different productions, but the new line for them is a model of perfect precision and purity.
The products of KMK LLP, especially Narine, which increases immunity and normalizes intestinal flora, a drink popular with Karaganda residents, were also loved by Astana residents, which is confirmed by meetings of representatives of the enterprise at various trade fairs. And since the investment project is included in the program for the creation of the Astana food belt, several tons are certainly sent daily from the assembly line of the Karaganda Dairy Plant to the capital, where competition between producers is acute in a special way. Of course, the product wins where two important indicators for the consumer converge – price and quality, which is proved by the experience of "Natige".
Natalia RYZHKOVA
