Orsha meat-canning plant invested Br1.4 billion in production development in the first half of the year.

July 28, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Orsha Meat Canning Plant OJSC invested Br1.4 billion in production development in the first half of the year, the enterprise informed a BELTA correspondent. The funds were directed towards the purchase of equipment for the baby food, sausage, canning, slaughtering and other production departments. For example, an air conditioning system for the raw materials section has been installed in the canning department. An outdated emulsifier was replaced in the baby food department. New high-performance Austrian-made equipment for homogenizing meat puree will allow expanding the range of baby food. In the near future, a more extensive modernization is planned in this department, which will double the capacity. Currently, it is designed to produce 5 tubes of puree per shift. In addition, the enterprise is actively preparing for the dismantling of the emergency part of the main production building, which is planned to be carried out in August-September. The production facilities located here have already been relocated to other sites. In January-June, the enterprise produced products worth Br61.1 billion, which is 15.7% more compared to the same period last year. Labor productivity increased by 15.3%. The energy saving indicator was minus 12.7%. Exports in the first half of the year increased more than twofold to $4.1 million. Shipments were mainly to Russia, as well as to Ukraine and, for the first time, to Azerbaijan. The enterprise was founded in 1930 and joint-stock companyed in 1997. It specializes in the production of meat, meat-vegetable and fish-vegetable canned food for baby food, the production of sausage products, and large-jar meat and meat-vegetable canned food. The nominal number of employees is over a thousand people. -0-