It is necessary to give a new lease of life to companies of Mogilev Oblast, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he visited the Mogilevliftmash enterprise on 10 July, BelTA has learned.
Earlier, Aleksandr Lukashenko had given an instruction to consider building the country's second nitrogen complex and another pulp mill. The head of state was asked if it was possible to implement these projects at the local industry giant Mogilevkhimvolokno. According to the workers, the company has the necessary competencies and infrastructure.
“I would not want to oversaturate Mogilev with chemical facilities. Yet, if part of the above-mentioned production can be relocated to and developed at Mogilevkhimvolokno, we will go for it,” the president noted.
Aleksandr Lukashenko recalled that the Mogilevkhimvolokno upgrade program had been approved earlier. “It is necessary to re-equip the company and produce high value-added products. Roughly speaking, not just manufacture and sell film, but to make something out of this film,” he explained. “We really hope that the new team will bring this upgrade program to fruition and launch clean production.”
A new complex to manufacture nitrogen fertilizers was originally planned to be built in Vitebsk Oblast. But later it was decided that it would make more sense to build it in Grodno, as the city has the necessary conditions and competencies.
“I am not in favor of taking something out of somewhere and bringing it to Mogilev. There are many enterprises here. They need to be given a new lease of life. And if all people have jobs, why would we need an extra enterprise here? I hope that we have enough workers today. There was unemployment, but today we need more and more people, because there is demand for our products on the market,” the head of state emphasized.
