Jambyl Cement’s Mynaral packing plant, where  1.5Mt of cement was bagged in 2018. Source: Vicat.

The ‘Stans’ are five varied and vibrant nations - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - embarking on their fourth decade of independence. Here, Global Cement looks into this region where oil and ideology, technology and tradition and East and West meet and mix - with no small volume of cement.

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