GOMEL, 26 June (BelTA) – The Belarusian agricultural machinery manufacturer Gomselmash will ship a batch of completely knocked down kits worth over $1.5 million for assembling forage harvesters to China, the company’s press service told BelTA. The relevant contract was signed by representatives of OAO Gomselmash and the Belarusian-Chinese joint venture Chongqing Zongshen-Gomel Agricultural Machine Manufacture Company when a Belarusian delegation visited the city of Handan. The assembly...

GOMEL, 19 June (BelTA) – The Belarusian oil company Belorusneft has started introducing new digital systems to control oil extraction SKAD-3104-SKS in the Siberian asset of the company – OAO NK Yangpur, the Belarusian company’s press service told BelTA. The Siberian enterprise received 15 sets of the digital oil extraction control systems developed by Belorusneft’s engineering division BelNIPIneft. The product represents a new generation of hardware designed to control the operation...

GOMEL, 13 June (BelTA) – Belarusian specialists have drilled a new deep well within a record time – 3.5 months. It is unprecedented for the Ukrainian oil industry, the press service of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft told BelTA. The construction of well No.72 in the Semirenkovskoye gas condensate deposit began on 24 January. The well is 5.5km deep. The work was supposed to be done within 176 days. However, the well was ready within virtually 110 days – more than two months...

GOMEL, 5 June (BelTA) – Over a thousand local residents and tourists welcomed participants of the Flame of Peace torch relay of the 2nd European Games near the Ice Arena in Gomel, BelTA has learned. A welcoming address was delivered by Gomel Mayor Piotr Kirichenko. He wished the torch relay of the 2nd European Games a nice journey along the streets of Gomel. The torch was lit by the mayor jointly with Chairman of the Belarusian Mountaineering Federation Aleksandr Godlevsky, Belarus'...

GOMEL(BelTA) – The Belarus study center opened at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in China on 28 May, BelTA learned from the press service of the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. The agreement to set up the center was signed by rector of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University Sergei Khakhomov and rector of Nanjing University of Science and Technology Fu Mengyin during the visit of the Belarusian delegation to China. “Friendly partner relations between Belarus...

GOMEL (BelTA) – Nearly 160 investment projects will be presented during the 16th Gomel Economic Forum, which is due on 24 May, the press service of the Gomel Oblast administration told BelTA. Gomel Oblast’s economic and investment potential will be presented during the forum. Investors will be offered projects in such spheres as woodworking industry, recycling of secondary material resources, food production, civil engineering and construction materials, chemical industry, power...

GOMEL, 2 May (BelTA) – It is important to develop the social sphere in addition to the manufacturing sector in the course of implementing the “village of the future” concept. Head of the Belarus President Administration Natalya Kochanova pointed it out as she visited the agrotown of Michurinskaya in Gomel Oblast on 2 May, BelTA has learned. The agrotown is located in Gomel District close to the city of Gomel itself. It has the necessary infrastructure: a school, a community center, a...

GOMEL, 16 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian steel mill BMZ and Turkish companies signed framework agreements on supplying metal products worth over $14 million during a Belarusian-Turkish business forum in Ankara on 16 April. The agreements were signed by Director General of OAO BMZ – Managing Company of the Holding Company BMC Anatoly Savenok, BelTA has learned. In particular, BMZ intends to ship products of its steel wire division and the pipe division to Turkey this year. Turkey is a...

GOMEL(BelTA) – The economic effect from introducing cost-saving measures in the Belarusian steel mill BMZ totaled $118.6 million in 2018 or over 9% of the prime cost of the products the company makes. The figures were mentioned by the company’s Director General Anatoly Savenok at a performance review conference of the company’s trade union, BelTA has learned. According to the source, BMZ did quite well in 2018. The company managed to earn $1.5 billion, 26% up from 2017, with the...

MINSK, 26 March (BelTA) – The Belarusian manufacturer of agricultural machines Gomselmash has presented its products at one of Europe's largest expos of agricultural machines and equipment – Agrosalon 2019, which opened in the Slovak city of Nitra on 26 March, representatives of the Embassy of Belarus in Slovakia told BelTA. During the opening ceremony Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Slovakia Igor Leshchenya informed those present about the country's...