A newly launched Uzbek-Tajik joint venture in Uzbekistan’s Fergana region demonstrates how emerging markets are transforming global supply chains and international investment—a development of increasing significance for U.S. industries and policymakers. With the U.S. elevating trade and investment in Central Asia, projects like this offer new sources of critical industrial materials while deepening economic ties across borders.

The new facility, named Osiyo Kabellari, is being established by Uzbek businesswoman Fatima Imomova and Tajik investor Shukhradzhan Ashurmatov as an entirely private greenfield venture. The plant, located in the Dangara district on a one-hectare site, is financed exclusively through $10 million in direct foreign investment, without public sector ownership or funding. Osiyo Kabellari is a purpose-built company formed specifically for this initiative, reflecting the region’s shift towards private-sector-led, cross-border industrial cooperation.

Set to begin operations by year’s end, the plant will boast an annual output capacity of 15,000 tons of copper wire and 1,700 tons of aluminum wire—products critical for infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing supply chains. Alongside production, the project is forecast to generate about 100 permanent jobs. Exports will be an important part of Osiyo Kabellari’s model, with the plant aiming to send up to $1 million of its wire products to neighboring CIS countries, especially Kyrgyzstan, in its first phase.

This joint venture reflects both countries’ broader goals: strengthening economic integration, expanding private sector opportunities, and diversifying the region’s export mix. For international observers—including the U.S.—such investments signal the potential for Central Asia to play a larger role as a reliable manufacturing and supply hub in the ever-evolving landscape of global trade and production.

Per Diplomatic Watch, Uzbekistan is one of the fastest-growing, most reform-minded economies in Central Asia, actively opening to foreign investment and global markets. U.S. trade with Uzbekistan is rising, with American investment in sectors like manufacturing, infrastructure, and energy reaching over $600 million in 2024—and growing connections between American and Uzbek companies.