In Vitebsk, it is planned to create 19 enterprises and production facilities in 2010

January 26, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The Vitebsk City Executive Committee today approved a set of measures to fulfill the socio-economic development forecast parameters for the regional center for 2010, the Vitebsk City Executive Committee's Economy Department informed a BELTA correspondent. In the current year, the city's industrial complex is expected to increase industrial production by 24% compared to the same indicator in 2009, with a consumer goods production growth rate of 130%. To achieve this goal, the City Executive Committee has provided for both organizational measures related to monitoring the implementation of enterprise development business plans, and a set of measures aimed at technical re-equipment and modernization of production, development of new products, including import substitution, organization of new production facilities at existing enterprises and creation of new ones. For example, RUPP "Vityaz" will expand the production of digital DVD set-top boxes for receiving terrestrial and cable television in MPEG2/MPEG4 compression format, digital TV receivers, and liquid crystal display televisions. Open Joint Stock Company "Vitebskiye Kovry" intends to increase the production of "Shaggy" woven carpets made of polypropylene twisted heat-set frieze yarn to 20 thousand square meters per year. Communal Joint Stock Company "Trud-Vitebsk" intends to master the production of 18 types of disposable medical clothing and linen this year. In total, it is planned to create 19 new enterprises and production facilities in the city. The growth rate of investments in communal property organizations in 2010 will be 125%. Enterprises are expected to attract at least Br900 billion in investments. OJSC "Moloko" plans to allocate over Br8 billion for the purchase of a modern yogurt production line and a pasteurization-cooling unit. Technical re-equipment of the Vitebsk Meat Processing Plant will continue, with over Br10 billion allocated for it. The "Energokomplekt" enterprise intends to invest Br1.2 billion in mastering the production of high-voltage cable with a voltage of 110 kW. According to operational data as of January 23, the overall industrial production growth rate in the city was 102.1% compared to January 2009. -0-