VITEBSK, 25 January (BelTA) – Public utilities of Ulyanovsk Oblast (Russian Federation) were on a visit in Lepel District to study the experience of housing and utilities companies, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Pshonka, head of the department of housing and utilities of the Lepel District Executive Committee. Russian colleagues were interested in the operation of heating system for multi-family houses, the boiler houses fired by local fuels, management of apartment blocks, tariffs for the...

ORSHA, 17 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian company Orsha Linen Mill opened a representative office in Warsaw, Poland in January 2012, the company’s Director General Vladimir Nesterenko told media on 17 January. The company’s distribution chain includes six shops in Belarus and several representative offices abroad. In late 2011 the company opened a representative office in Ivanovo, Russian Federation. According to the source, the company is working hard to reduce the finished goods...

MINSK, 16 January (BelTA) – Dubrovno District (Vitebsk Oblast) and Dnepropetrovsk District (Ukraine) signed an agreement on cooperation in the social, economic and cultural sectors, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry. The document was signed during a visit of the Belarusian delegation led by Chairman of the Dubrovno regional executive committee Anatoly Lukashov to Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. The Belarusian delegation paid a visit to a number of agricultural companies...

VITEBSK, 13 January (BelTA) – In 2011 the Free Economic Zone Vitebsk (FEZ Vitebsk) registered 27 residents, BelTA learnt from FEZ Vitebsk. Among new residents are eight foreign companies, three joint ventures and 16 firms with the Belarusian capital. The total amount of investment is $407.3 million. Investment projects envisage over 1,800 new jobs. The majority of companies plan to export more than 70% of their products. The products of Natrix, Energokomplekt and Polimerkonstruktsya are...

VITEBSK, 10 January (BelTA) – Glubokoye Milk Cannery is set to explore new sales markets in 2012, BelTA learnt from the company. In H1 2012 the company has plans to ship a pilot lot of canned milk to the United States. The enterprise will deliver 21 tonnes of condensed milk to New York. The products are meant for immigrants from the former Soviet republics. The agreement on trial shipment of products has already been reached with an American partner; the contract will be signed in the...

VITEBSK, 9 January (BelTA) – Shares of the Belarusian open joint-stock company Orsha Aircraft Overhaul Plant have been sold to strategic investors, namely the Belarusian company Innovations and Investment Systems and the Ukrainian company Motor Sich. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed the relevant ordinance on equity carve-out on 30 December 2011, BelTA learned from Vladimir Troitsky, Director of OAO Orsha Aircraft Overhaul Plant. The government owns 99.2% of the shares in...