The Belarusian producer of lifts OAO Mogilevliftmash exported 7,842 lifts in January-September, up by 26.6% YoY, Mogilevliftmash Director General Boris Kovalevsky reported.
Russia is the main target market for Mogilevliftmash, with over 70% of the exports sold there.
“Despite the tough competition that has existed in Russia for many years the Mogilev-based company remains a market leader. Every year our rating in Russia gets higher and higher. We export more and more lifts and lift equipment to various regions of Russia”, Kovalevsky stated.
Mogilevliftmash lifts are also sold to Afghanistan, Venezuela, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. The company has sold the first few lifts to Germany this year. The choice of products includes over 130 models. The Director General believes that it is necessary to develop the enterprise by starting the production of new kinds of merchandise. Several years ago Mogilevliftmash started making construction hoists, then lifts for people with disabilities and other mobility-challenged people. The company is about to start making escalators, which will be sold to business centers, railway and bus terminals, and airports. Another important investment project provides for starting the production of a new family of economy-class elevators, business-class elevators and construction hoists for high-rise buildings.
The Mogilevliftmash CEO said: “We also put efforts into modernizing the manufacturing equipment and technologies. We would not be able to survive the tough competition otherwise. In the last ten years the company acquired about 300 units of manufacturing equipment. In the period Mogilevliftmash increased its lift manufacturing capacity by over 50%”.
The Mogilev-based company OAO Mogilevliftmash is a leading manufacturer of lift equipment in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The company offers passenger lifts (225-1,275kg), freight lifts (100-6,300kg), mixed-type lifts, lifts for hospitals and custom-design lifts in addition to lift equipment and spare parts for repairing, replacing, and modernizing outmoded lifts. The company also makes consumer goods and equipment unrelated to lifts. The enterprise was established in 1966 and reincorporated as a public joint-stock company (OAO) in 2013. At present it employs about 4,500 people. (BelTA/Business World Magazine)