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Gomselmash, Chinese Dong Jin Group to assemble forage harvesters jointly

GOMEL, 25 September (BelTA) – Gomselmash and Chinese corporation Dong Jin Group will set up a joint company to assemble forage harvesters Palesse FS60. The relative agreement is supposed be signed during a visit of the Chinese delegation to Gomel at the end of this week, BelTA learnt in Gomselmash. The joint company will be placed in the Heilongjiang province. The work of the company will be organized taking into consideration the work of the joint assembly productions in Russia and Kazakhstan. The Belarusian side will provide the supplies of machine sets and the Chinese side will assemble forage harvesters and prepare them for sale. In the beginning, the joint company will assemble around 100 forage harvesters a year. According to specialists, the Belarusian forage harvesters assembled in China may be included in the list of the up-to-date farm machinery which is subsidized by the Chinese Central Government and the regional governments. Moreover, the joint production will allow both the sides to reduce expenses for customs fees and forage harvester’s production cost in general. Palesse FS60 is designed to harvest tall-stalked cultures (corn, sunflower), haymaking and other works. The work of PalesseFS60 in agricultural companies of the Central, North-West, Ural, Volga and Siberian Federal Areas of Russia shows that Gomselmash’s forage harvester can operate in any harvesting conditions. The manufacturing corporation Gomselmash is a multi-business producer of machines designed to cultivate and harvest crops using contemporary agrarian technologies. The Gomselmash line-up includes machines for harvesting grain, forage crops, sugar beet, potato, as well as mowers and machines for complex soil cultivation. The company’s designing, manufacturing and maintenance practices are certified for compliance with the international quality management system ISO 9001-2001. The corporation was set up in 1978 at premises of the Gomselmash enterprise that was founded in 1930. At present the company employs 17,000 people.

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