GOMEL, 24 November (BelTA) – The international festival Gomel Fest 2020 has brought together 1,800 participants from four countries, BelTA learned from the ideology, culture, and youth affairs department of the Gomel City Executive Committee. The five-day festival featured contestants from Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. The youngest participant was only two years old, the oldest were way past fifty. The competition was held online and offline. Many participants recorded their...

GOMEL, 17 November (BelTA) - The international industrial exhibition Metal-Expo 2020 in Moscow was a success for the public joint-stock company (OAO) BMZ, the Management Company of the holding company Belarusian Metallurgical Company (BMC). The company received several industry awards and reached agreements with Russian consumers for the supply of metal products in H1 2021, Aleksandr Olesik, the company's press secretary, told BelTA. The parties held a number of meetings and negotiations as...

GOMEL, 27 October (BelTA) – The 12th international karate competitions Gomel Open Cup 2020 will take place in Gomel, Belarus on 30-31 October, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Presidium of the youth public association Gomel Oblast Karate Federation Kirill Golovnya. The competitions will be held at the Gomel Oblast Olympic Athletics Center. “According to the preliminary data, athletes from all the Belarusian regions will compete for medals. It is expected that some 500 karate athletes...

GOMEL, 20 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian steel mill BMZ has made its 700,000th tonne of bronze-plated bead wire. The milestone batch was shipped to a customer in Portugal, the company’s Press Secretary Aleksandr Olesik told BelTA. Only BMZ’s steel wire shop No.1 makes bronze-plated bead wire. This is why it took over 20 years for the company to get past the 700,000 tonnes milestone. In this period the company mastered the production of about 20 types of bronze-plated bead wire with...

MINSK, 15 October (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent greetings to the personnel and veterans of OAO Gomselmash which marks the 90th anniversary, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. “Over the course of 90 years Gomselmash has achieved a lot. It was growing and developing together with the country, helped advance the production capacity of the agricultural industry and restore the national economy from the ashes of war, ensured the...

MINSK (BelTA) - Svetlogorsk Pulp and Board Mill will implement a new investment project to launch the production of paper packaging, which received a go-ahead during the government conference hosted by the head of state on 6 October to discuss the development of the woodworking industry, pulp and paper industry, head of the Bellesbumprom Concern Mikhail Kasko told reporters after the conference, BelTA has learned. The Svetlogorsk plant is planning to install a kraft paper bag making machine...

GOMEL, 28 September (BelTA) – Higher education and science institutions of Gomel Oblast are busy expanding cooperation with research centers and universities in Russia. Results of the work were mentioned by Gomel Oblast Governor Gennady Solovei during the panel session held as part of the 7th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia on 28 September to discuss education as the foundation of historical memory and further integration development of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, BelTA...

GOMEL (BelTA) – Promising projects in the area of road infrastructure, ecology, and food industry were discussed as the deputy chairmen of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Andrei Konyushko and Andrei Baranovsky met with a delegation of the representative office of the Slovenian company Riko (Riko, industrijski, gradbeni inzeniring in leasing, d.o.o.) in Belarus on 22 September, BelTA has learned. Zivorad Smiljkovic, head of the representative office in Belarus, noted that the Slovenian...

GOMEL, 15 September (BelTA) – The unitary enterprise BelStekloProm has upgraded a glass furnace of its own, BelTA has learned. The glass furnace can produce 260 tonnes of liquid glass per day. The upgrade will improve the quality of the products the company makes, will increase the output, and will reduce the consumption of natural gas (by up to 17%) and electricity. It will definitely have an effect on the enterprise’s profitability. The enterprise’s Director General Nadezhda Dubovets...

GOMEL, 8 September (BelTA) – The construction of a hydrogen production plant as part of the heavy oil hydrocracking complex in OAO Mozyr Oil Refinery is in the final stage, BelTA has learned. Startup operations are supposed to take place at the hydrogen production plant in late September. Construction and installation operations at a sulfur production plant are nearing completion as well. This plant is supposed to be commissioned together with an integrated hydrocracking unit. Off-plant...