Modernization to Expand Belerus P&P Export Potential, Especially Specialty Paperboards

 

According to a report by The Belarusian News Network, Minsk, Belarus, the Belarusian timber, woodworking, and pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom intends to export new products that modernized enterprises can now make to more than 30 countries, BelTA learned from Bellesbumprom CEO Yuri Nazarov two weeks ago.

The Bellesbumprom head remarked that the investment projects by the pulp and paper industry in 2015 will allow manufacturing of sulfated bleached pulp, pure-cellulose pasteboard with one-sided coating, triple-layer "cardboard" with double-sided coating (used by printing, medical, and food industry enterprises), and base paper for decorative facing materials.

Thanks to what the group termed as successful "modernization" in multiple sectors of manufacturing and production, Bellesbumprom enterprises can now make a larger selection of forest-based products for consumers to choose from and create more products for additional industrial and commercial applications. 

"With these new products, Bellesbumprom enterprises will be able to reach new target markets and export more," noted the Bellesbumprom head. Promising markets include Latin America, Asia, and Arab countries, where active construction operations are in progress.

According to Yuri Nazarov, Bellesbumprom enterprises are ready to offer an entire lineup of innovative kinds of products, including new insulating fiberboards. The Mozyr-based woodworking factory has been upgraded to make these fiberboards. "This kind of merchandise is unparalleled in Belarus as well as CIS and Baltic states," said a local industry source. 

The manufacturing facility reportedly uses state-of-the-art European equipment that can make insulating wooden fiberboards with excellent environmental parameters for a wide choice of applications in civil engineering and industrial engineering. Construction companies are expected to become the main consumers of the product. The company has already shipped the first few batches of the merchandise to retail in Belarus.

OAO Mostovdrev, OAO Gomeldrev, and OAO Vitebskdrev are busy mastering the production of laminated floor pavement. Total output is expected to reach 15 million sq. meters by 2017, by their estimates.

The report states pulp and paper industry enterprises in the country are in unison focusing on mastering the production of new kinds of merchandise that has not been seen there, or for that matter, in many global markets as of yet.  As part of the modernization of its paper production line, the Dobrush-based paper mill Geroy Truda has also mastered the production of top liner (pasteboard used to make packaging with white coating) and the Vlieseline-type paper used as the basic material for making premium-quality wallpapers.

Bellesbumprom unites major timber, woodworking, pulp and paper enterprises of Belarus. The group comprises 45 enterprises and holding companies of various types of ownership. These enterprises export their merchandise to 44 countries.