Andrey Krasnokutskiy, Almaty at night
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Andrey
Krasnokutskiy

Kyzylbai

People call me Kyzylbai — a nickname the city gave me, and I value it. I was born here and built my own factory here too.

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About me

I am forty. Half my life I have made things with my hands — first behind a counter, then on the shop floor. I still believe the most honest work is the kind you can touch.

I did not arrive in manufacturing through a neat presentation. I unloaded boxes, stood behind a counter, lost money and started over. Every machine in our workshop was bought with money earned, not money promised.

I want the things people use in Kazakhstan to be made in Kazakhstan. Not because it sounds good, but because then someone is accountable for them — and that someone lives in the next neighbourhood.

Andrey Krasnokutskiy
1986
born in Almaty,
still living here
12
years old at
my first job
2014
the year ATON+
was founded
10+
years of our own
manufacturing

Path

No polished legend. Just how it happened.

1998
First job at twelve
I sold discs at Serebryany Disk. Not out of romance — it was simply necessary. That is when I first understood a simple thing: money comes for a result someone else needs, not for effort.
2007
My own shop at twenty-one
I opened it on borrowed money — I had none of my own. For the first year I was the salesman, the loader and the accountant. I learned to count every tenge and to talk to people rather than to reports.
Later
A partnership that fell apart
I lost almost everything and started again, this time without illusions. I will not pretend I am grateful for it — it was hard. But after that I stopped building a business on verbal agreements.
2014
ATON+ appeared
We started with metal: one machine, a rented unit, three people. We were the first in Kazakhstan to produce computer cases in series — because everything was imported and there was nowhere to repair it.
Today
A workshop, a team and our own R&D
Designers, welders, painters, installers and programmers. Most of our craftsmen came with no metalwork experience — we trained them ourselves. That, more than the equipment, is what I am proud of.
ATON+ workshop

“Sometimes I get to the workshop before anyone else. Not because I distrust my people — I simply feel good there.”

What I believe

Answer personally

If something is done badly, it is not a “department” or a contractor at fault. Customers have my phone number, and that is the best quality control I know.

Make it here

Domestic manufacturing is not a slogan — it is jobs, taxes and a spare part that takes a day to arrive instead of six months.

Train people

There are almost no ready-made specialists on the market. We hire people who want to work and train them — it takes longer, but otherwise industry never appears in a country.

Look beyond the quarter

A playground stands for ten years. A computer case works for five. I am used to thinking in those terms, not in reporting periods.

What I build

Four divisions, several workshops and more than 5,000 m² of floor space — a full line from cutting the sheet to packing the finished product. One team behind all of it. Each division has its own page.

PC cases
01 · Metal

Cases and
computers

The first in the country to build cases in series. Our metal, our assemblies.

Interactive panels
02 · Screen

SMART
panels

For schools, universities and meeting rooms: we deliver, mount, configure and train.

Playgrounds
03 · City

Playgrounds and
public spaces

Courtyards, schools and parks: from sketch to installation by our own crew.

04 · Intelligence

MEZA — AI on
the shop floor

Our own development: an AI that runs the entire workshop cycle.

Andrey Krasnokutskiy
Why all this

I want our kids
to stay here

I do not like watching capable young people leave because “there is nothing here”. There is. It simply has to be built — workshop by workshop, courtyard by courtyard.

I do not promise quick change. I am good at long things: a factory that runs for ten years, and people who grow from apprentices into masters in that time.

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Almaty

Almaty is my home. A city that gives me the strength to build.

Newsroom

On the left, what is happening in the world: economics, the defence industry, markets. On the right, what is happening in our workshop.

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The daily record on Instagram
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In the feed

A daily record from the workshop and from the city — what Andrey posts on his Instagram.

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Stories last 24 hours, so they can only be watched inside Instagram itself.

Write to me
directly

I read everything myself. A production question, an idea for the city or just a conversation — write.

atonplus@yandex.ru
ProductionAlmaty, Suyunbai ave. 573/1
Instagram@atonpluss
CompanyATON+ LLP
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