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Recycling domestic waste is increasingly important for the future of Uzbek industry: the country produces more than 13 tonnes of domestic dry waste every single day – and just 14 per cent of this is currently recycled. Experts estimate that €22 million can be generated simply by extracting secondary raw materials and recycling rare earth metals. Recycling plastic and waste paper would be even more lucrative. Continue reading

The textile and clothing sector will be remaining one of Uzbekistan’s most important industries for foreign investment and cooperation in future. State-based modernisation programmes are supporting the growth in the domestic textile industry. The search for new technologies has led Schachzoda Egamberdiewa, the representative of the respective authority in Uzbekistan, to Germany. Continue reading

There is a new driving force behind Uzbekistan’s digital economy. Brand.uz, a young, up and coming IT company, has followed the international market’s lead and founded a start-up accelerator to mentor young tech talent. The next Twitter or Instagram might well emerge from Central Asia in the not too distant future if Yelena Seleznyova, MP alumna and Managing Director of the StartupFactory, has anything to do with it. Continue reading

In June 2016, 20 entrepreneurs from Uzbek SMEs completed four weeks of manager training on economic cooperation at the DMAN. Similar to their fellow citizens from the previous year, they were very interested in aspects of personnel management and thus also of company management. Continue reading

Already during the selection process, Uzbek executives from SMEs stressed how important it was to them to learn modern methods of personnel management in Germany. Continue reading

Future Energy is the theme of the Expo 2017 trade fair, which is to be held in the summer of 2017 in the Kazakh capital city of Astana. This is no coincidence, since renewable energy is a topic widely talked about in Central Asia. Continue reading

Energy efficiency is a highly topical subject in the countries of Central Asia. Thus, a workshop on this subject was right at the top of the wish list of Central Asian alumni of the BMWi training programme which took place in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Continue reading

With the right preparation and implementation, an industry-specific programme that not only prepares participants for business with Germany but also enables greater insights and opportunities for cooperation in their specialist fields is already a highlight for all involved overall. Continue reading

Companies are able to significantly reduce their costs with intelligent energy-saving measures. This not only helps secure their competitiveness, but also already prepares them for medium-term changes in the energy market, such as price increases due to the growing scarcity of resources or energy taxes, and also actively contributes to climate change mitigation. Continue reading

The company Fliegl built one of the most modern production plants for agricul-tural machinery in Mühldorf on the river Inn in Upper Bavaria. Josef Fliegel Senior continuously carries out research and develops new products; in 2014, he was awarded a silver medal by the German Agricultural Society (DLG e.V.). Continue reading