Postavsky Dairy Plant Invests Br30 Billion in New Cheese Production Facility

December 31, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Postavy Dairy Plant will invest Br30 billion in the creation of new cheese production. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Sergey Shinelev, Deputy General Director of the Vitebsk Concern "Meat and Dairy Products". To create a new production facility for the output of hard cheeses, a separate workshop with a capacity of 20 tons per day will be built on a vacant site near the main enterprise. Currently, tender procedures are underway to select a supplier of the necessary technological equipment, a general designer, and a general contractor for construction. Construction of the new facility is planned to commence in the first half of 2011. The project implementation will allow the plant to increase its cheese output volume by more than ten times (currently, the enterprise's capacity allows for the production of 1-1.5 tons of cheese per day) and become the largest producer of this product in the Vitebsk region. In January-November, the plant produced products worth Br55 billion, or 103.1% compared to the same period last year. Profitability of sales is 4.9%. Export supplies during this period were made to Russia, Kazakhstan, the USA, Singapore, and Poland, with products worth $7.1 million exported, which corresponds to the level of the same period last year. The share of exports in the total sales volume was 33%. The energy saving indicator is minus 22.5% against a target of minus 12%. The enterprise specializes in the production of cheeses, whole milk products, and casein; it also produces ice cream and mayonnaise – a total of over 40 product names. The whole milk product group includes over 20 types. The number of employees is over 280 people. -0-