Belarus’ BelAZ heavy-duty truck manufacturer (Zhodino, Minsk region) has designed the MoAZ-65010 dump truck for subsurface mining. The compact dump truck with a 15-ton load capacity has been custom-made for Russia’s OAO Kombinat KMAruda. BelAZ will ship the new truck to the customer in early 2017 for acceptance tests. The truck is 2.1 meters wide…
The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash has sent the first batch of cotton harvesters to Cameroon, Igor Korotkevich, First Deputy Director of the company’s Regional Sales Department, reported. The harvesters will be delivered to Cameroon in roughly one month. “By that time our specialists will have arrived in Cameron in order to prepare the machines…
Belarus endorses the recommendation of the OECD in terms of upgrading SME capacity and has already developed specific measures to implement them, Belarus’ Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky said during the roundtable held as part of the OECD Eurasia Week 2016 in Paris. Presenting a set of measures to implement the proposals of the OECD experts,…
The Belarusian-Turkish business council will sit in Minsk in 2017. The matter was discussed at the meeting between Belarus’ Consul General in Istanbul Vladimir Mironovich and Chairman of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey Omer Cihad Vardan, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. The parties reached an agreement to…
A $2.5 million venture funding program – AID-Venture – has been launched in Belarus, Bel.biz Group reported. The consortium of partners consisting of several companies has won the tender for venture capital ecosystem development in Belarus. Aleinikov & Partners together with a group of companies Bel.biz, venture fund 500 Startups and international educational program for…
A wind farm worth around 3 million euro will be built in Grodno region near Zelva in the framework of an investment agreement signed between Grodno region administration and Zilant Ltd. A 5 mW wind farm will be built on a land plot of 1.7 ha. Belarus has chosen 22 suitable locations, where up to…
Belarus’ mineral fertilizer manufacturer Belaruskali (Soligorsk, Minsk region) says it has doubled the production of NPK fertilizers in 2016. Belaruskali’s NPK fertilizer facility increased output from 5-6 thousand tons a month in 2015 to 15,000 tons in 2016. Belaruskali managed to increase output after launching new blends of NPK fertilizers and expanding the geography of…