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...

GOMEL(BelTA) – The Belarusian harvester manufacturing company Gomselmash feels support of the state and is busy increasing its output, BelTA has learned. The company's management admitted that there had been complicated periods in the history of the company's development. “We've always felt support of the country's leadership. The head of state did not fail to pay attention to our situation in the complicated 1990s or the early 2000s. The matters of debt restructuring and more active...

GOMEL (BelTA) – The Belarusian steel mill BMZ is busy increasing the workload of the divisions that make fabricated metal products. The company intends to make and ship to customers about 30,000 tonnes of metal cord and various kinds of wire in August, BelTA has learned. The projected output is nearly one third above the figure registered in May 2020 when the global steel market demonstrated a massive decrease in demand due to the coronavirus crisis. BMZ's wire manufacturing divisions, in...

GOMEL(BelTA) – Drilling crews of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft built four wellbores in July, the company's press service told BelTA. The Svetlogorsk drilling department did the work. All the wells but one are over 3km deep. The exception is 2,880m deep. Going as deep as 3,118m below the surface, wellbore No.362 was built in the Rechitsa area. Built in the Marmovichskoye field deposit, wellbore No.155 is 3,480m deep. Wellbore No.9 was built in the Leteshinskoye field. It is...