Tajikistan's chemical industry is relatively young, but has significant development potential. Thus, the country has a strong base of raw materials for the development of the chemical industry, mainly a wide range of minerals, electricity and water resources.
The country already has a large-scale production of chlorine and nitrogen fertilizers.
Domestic companies produce the following products:
- Rubber products,
- Respirators, linoleum,
- Plastic pipes and containers,
- Medication,
- Paints and varnishes,
- Silicate paints,
- Liquid bottle,
- Household chemicals,
- Caustic soda,
- Technical strontium salt,
- Reactive strontium salts (more than 10 types),
- Reactive salts of bismuth, barium, strontium,
- Industrial explosives.
Chemical products are mainly used in metallurgy, construction and light industry. Currently, a cryolite plant with an annual design capacity of 30,000 tons is being built in Yovon. It is based on local raw materials. This enterprise is being built on the basis of modern technologies and in the future will fully meet the annual needs of the State Unitary Enterprise "Tajik Aluminum Company" with aluminum fluoride and cryolite.
In the future, it is planned to build sulfuric acid plants with a production capacity of 100,000 tons. and superphosphate 150,000 tons. per year. Also production of sodium cyanide, baking soda, caustic soda, chloromethane and its products, detergents, chemicals, processing of coal and oil, nitric acid, nitrate, potassium chloride, ammophos, processing of metal concentrates, non-ferrous and precious metals is considered, element of boron and sulfur on the basis of existing capacities of chemical enterprises of the republic.