GOMEL, June 3 (BelTA) – The Gomel fat factory has launched regular supplies of toilet and household soap to the USA, BelTA learnt from Alexander Orlov, chief of the company’s marketing department. The deliveries are serviced by a commercial firm based in New York. The first consignment was shipped at the end of 2008. This year the company has dispatched two 30-tonne consignments and is preparing the third one. Although the deliveries are not big, it is still beneficial for the company to...

MINSK, June 1 (BelTA) – Gomselmash will present a joint Belarusian-Kazakh combine harvester K3C-740 Esil at the BelarusEXPO 2009 national exhibition of the Republic of Belarus in Kazakhstan that will be held in Astana on June 3-6, BelTA learnt from Gomselmash. Upon the agreement between Gomselmash and Agromashholding-Kazakhstan, the assembly production is carried out at the Kostanay diesel plant. This machinery did well during harvesting and was praised by Kazakh farmers. This year the...

GOMEL, May 25 (BelTA) — Gomel oblast governor Alexander Yakobson has signed an order to allocate budget funding for buying a highly effective liquid chromatograph. The equipment will enable the oblast vet lab to carry out an extensive express analysis of animal products, including examination to verify the presence of antibiotics, BelTA learnt from Viktor Kurpatov, Head of the Veterinary Office of the Gomel Oblast Committee for Agriculture and Food. Highly effective liquid chromatography...

GOMEL, May 25 (BelTA) – Gomel oblast’s first anaerobic digestion plant has been put into operation in the one of the region’s biggest poultry farms. The plant produces 330kWt of electrical energy and 450 kW of heat energy per hour, BelTA learnt from Yury Kolesnikov, the chief of the energy and fuel department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. The plant will produce 2.6 million kW of electrical energy and 4.2 million gigacaories of heat energy a year. This will satisfy 50% of...

GOMEL, May 21 (BelTA) – Investment agreements at the amount of $250 million were signed at the Gomel Economic Forum on May 21. The investment projects will be implemented in the Gomel oblast with the participation of foreign investors. According to the signed agreements, Russian and Ukrainian businesses are going to invest in production of passenger railway cars in Gomel, production of electric energy from solid domestic wastes in the Zhitkovichi region, development of the hotel business...

GOMEL, May 21 (BelTA) – Azarab Industries Company from Iran is ready to start building a cement plant in the Gomel oblast, Azarab Ind Co project manager in Belarus Ahmad Mahdi Soltani told reporters at the Gomel Economic Forum on May 21. The Belarusian and Iranian sides had been working on this investment project for three years already. It will be implemented once the relevant decree is signed by the President of Belarus. According to the project manager, it may be done within several...

GOMEL, May 21 (BelTA) – The Gomel Economic Forum will open in Gomel on May 21. It is expected that it will become the biggest one for the previous years, BelTA learnt from Elvira Karnitskaya, head of the economy department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. Attending the forum will be 260 representatives from 22 countries including representatives from 12 Russian and 5 Ukrainian regions. The Polish delegation will be one of the most representative at the forum. For instance, the...

GOMEL, May 21 (BelTA) – The 10th international exhibition and fair Spring 2009 opened in Gomel on May 21. Companies of six countries are taking part in the forum. Attending the forum are more than 200 companies from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, BelTA learnt from Alexei Shelegeda, deputy chairman of the Gomel oblast branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The exhibition will occupy 3,200 square metres. The exhibition area will include four...

GOMEL, May 18 (BelTA) – In Q1 this year, the Gomel oblast invested Br14.8 billion in modernization of the process industry, or up 74.3% as against the same period of 2008. Meat and dairy manufacturers of the region invested more than Br9.3 billion of their own funds, BelTA learnt from Svetlana Zubkova, head of the process industry department of the agriculture and food committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. In January-March 2009, the Kalinkovichi Dairy Plant, the Gomel-based...

MINSK, May 13 (BelTA) – More than 10 excursion programmes timed to the Great Patriotic War have been developed in the Gomel oblast, BelTA learnt from Romualda Milashevskaya, director of Gomelobltourist Company. Every excursion programme is dedicated to one or another significant event of the Great Patriotic War. One of the trip “Hero’s Bank” runs via the settlement of Loev. It tells about the courage of the Soviet soldiers who conducted a forced crossing of the Dnepr River in...