Navoiazot: China’s Eximbank has agreed to provide the Government of Uzbekistan with a $300m loan for the construction of a new PVC production plant at its Navoiazot chemical complex. The plant, which will have an annual production capacity 100,000 tonnes of PVC, 75,000 tonnes of caustic soda and 300,000 tonnes of methanol will be constructed by another Chinese concern, CAMC Engineering, on a turnkey basis AKIPress.