Enefit Energy, subsidiary of Enefit, signed a contract with Amec Foster Wheeler to modify a Circulating Fluidized bed boiler so as to increase its capabilities to utilize retort gas for the generation of electricity and to reduce the environmental impacts of power production. “When oil is produced from oil shale, high-calorific gas is also generated,…
DTEK energy holding since early October has increased coal stocks at warehouses of thermal power plants (TPPs) by 173,000 tons, to 792,000 tons, DTEK Energo Generation Director Serhiy Kurylenko reported. Kurylenko said that at present DTEK’s TPPs burned 50,000 tons of coal a day on average. Around 65,000 tons of coal arrive every day to…
The owner and president of DCH Group Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, who holds a controlling stake in Kharkiv Tractor Plant, intends to buy 29% of shares in the plant belonging to Austrian investor Siegfried Wolf, DCH has said in a press release. “DCH Group of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky officially informs about the start of the process to acquire…
China plans to offer its direct investment for the construction of commercial dairy farms in Vitebsk region, Vitebsk region governor Nikolai Sherstnev reported after the ceremony to inaugurate the new meat-processing workshop at Glubokoye Meat Packing Plant. “We have agreed on the implementation of one big project. China plans to build two commercial dairy farms…
The Belarusian Industry Ministry and the Chinese company Zoomlion intend to implement a number of joint projects in the area of mechanical engineering. Belarusian Industry Minister Vitaly Vovk made the statement at a press conference on October 12, as he commented on results of the recent visit of the Belarusian delegation led by the Belarus…
Belarus hopes that the European Union will lift its textile import restrictions, Belarusian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Yevdochenko reported. “The European Union introduced quotas on Belarusian textiles some time ago. Today we are working with our EU partners to lift these non-tariff restrictions. We are close to success, and we hope that…
As of October 13, agricultural organizations in Belarus continued harvesting corn for grain and sugar beet, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food declared. In particular, agrarians harvested 377.6 thousand tons of corn throughout the areas of 47.3 thousand ha (26.7%), with the average yield of 7.99 ton/ha. Last year the grain production volumes totaled 174.4…