Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno has started producing antimicrobial polyester threads, head of the company’s marketing department Tatiana Gorina told BelTA. The new product uses Sanitized additive made by Austrian Clariant company to deliver an antibacterial effect for many bacteria. The product is compliant with Ecotex-100 standard, which defines safety norms: content of certain chemicals (textile auxiliaries, coupling agents), dye durability under certain conditions, pH factor of water extract...

The Mozyr Oil Refinery has installed reactors of the future diesel hydrotreater, BelTA learnt from the company. The plant launched the installation in April 2008. The equipment from Russia, Ukraine, the EU included four large-capacity reactors of 256 and 160 tonnes. The construction works are planned to be completed in H1 2009. The project completion is scheduled for 2010. The capacity of the hydrotreater will total three million tonnes per year and help the company to produce the whole...

Around 10 hectares of vineyards will be laid out in the Gomel oblast in 2009, BelTA learnt from Ludmila Vabischevich, the deputy director general of the Gomel oblast association of fruits and vegetables producers. The new vineyards are expected to be laid out in the agricultural company Vostok (Gomel region). A team of Belarusian scientists are expected to monitor the process of grape cultivation in the company. They will also train local agrarians to cultivate this kind of plant. The...

Belorusneft Company will launch the production of biofuel in 2009, Valentin Babok, the head of the agriculture and foodstuffs committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee, told a press c0onference on September 4. According to him, the biofuel will be produced in the agricultural company Osobino which is one of Belorusneft’s subdivisions. The company will launch the plant which will produce 30 thousand tonnes of rape oil a year. Then, this oil will be mixed with diesel fuel. The...

On October 1-5, Gomel will host the international figure skating tournament Grand Prix among Juniors Golden Lynx-2008. The event will be held in the Ice Palace of the city under the auspices of the International Skating Union (ISU) and the Belarus National Olympic Committee. Attending the competition will be over 130 sportsmen aged under 20 years old from 41 countries of Europe, America, Asia, Australia and Africa. The program of the competition includes single skating (men and women), pair...

In line with the business plan, in September-December the Gomselmash Production Association will make 500 grain harvesters which will be exported to Russia and Ukraine, BelTA learnt from the sales department of the company. Under the contract with the Technotorg Company, a Gomselamsh official dealer, 300 harvesters Palesie GS12 and GS812 will be delivered to Ukraine. Another 100 Belarusian harvesters will be assembled jointly with Ukraine's Kherson and Belaya Tserkov machinery construction...

Gomel is gearing for the 19th spartakiada of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus (FTUB) which will be held in the town on September 18-21, Vladimir Makarenko, the director of the FTUB oblast sports club, told BelTA. According to him, this is the third time that Gomel will be hosting the spartakiada. This year the spartakiada will feature 26 teams – winners of the industry-wide spartakiadas organised by the national committees. More than 1,000 amateur athletes will compete in...

On September 1 - the first day of the new school year, some 14.9 thousand children (600 children more as against last year) came to the schools of the Gomel oblast. All in all, 160 thousand students came to the schools of the oblast, BelTA learnt from head of the education department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Marina Bondar. According to her, some 1360 young professors – graduates of pedagogical universities and colleges of the country have started their working career....

The stages of the election campaign in the Gomel oblast – the formation of district and precinct commissions, registration of candidates to the deputies - were held in full compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, Ivan Kotlobai, a coordinator in the Gomel oblast from the CIS observation mission, told reporters on August 29. “In a private talk the OCSE observers – and these are representatives from Russia, the Netherlands, Austria - also confirmed that there were no...

Gomel companies “8 Marta”, “Spartak” and others decided to take part in the charity project “Belarusian Red Cross to Children of Ossetia”, BelTA learnt in the Gomel regional organization of the Red Cross Society of Belarus. In the near future, the companies will hand over its products: knitted goods, sweets and other things to the Ossetian children who will come to Belarus. According to the Gomel regional organization of the Red Cross Society of Belarus, on August 15 all the...