Vitebskdrev has started supplying products to Great Britain

June 28, Minsk / Tatyana Chumakova - BELTA /. Vitebskdrev OJSC has started supplying its products to Great Britain, the enterprise informed a BELTA correspondent. Pellets, the production of which was mastered at the enterprise this year, are being shipped. Pellets worth 50 thousand euros have already been supplied to Great Britain, and it is planned to ship another 180 thousand euros worth by the end of the current year. In July-August, the Vitebsk enterprise will supply a trial batch of sawn timber to the British company MC Wood LLP. The company will resell Belarusian products at its discretion, possibly to other countries, the OJSC reported. In the future, the Vitebsk enterprise expects to master the markets of Scandinavian countries with pellets. In addition, Vitebskdrev made a trial shipment of wood-fiber boards to Denmark this year. It is planned to send sawn timber worth 30 thousand euros to the Danish company Scanova A/S by the end of summer. OJSC's products are currently sold in more than 20 countries. Thus, some of the most important sales markets are Lithuania, Poland, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and the Netherlands. Vitebskdrev is assisted in searching for new foreign sales markets by the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange, the OJSC noted. In January-May of this year, Vitebskdrev increased its product exports by more than 2 times compared to the same period in 2009, to $3 million. Based on the results of five months, supplies to the Netherlands increased by more than 2 times to almost $500 thousand, by 2 times to $200 thousand to Lithuania, and from $13 thousand to $600 thousand to Poland. The enterprise reported that this year Vitebskdrev plans to start producing laminated chipboards. The enterprise was founded in 1926. Vitebskdrev OJSC is one of the largest woodworking companies in Belarus. It produces window and door units, chipboard and wood-fiber boards, planed moldings, and has an effective quality management system that meets the requirements of ISO 9000. Production capacities allow processing up to 1.2 thousand cubic meters of wood raw materials per day. The enterprise is part of the Bellesbumprom concern. -0-