Technopark for Belarusian mechanical engineering products in Mongolia

There are plans to set up a technopark for Belarusian mechanical engineering products in Mongolia. The matter was discussed at the meeting of Belarusian Industry Minister Dmitry Katerinich and Mongolian Industry and Agriculture Minister Khaltmaa Battulga in Minsk on 10 April, BelTA learned from Sergei Shalai, press secretary of the Belarusian Industry Ministry.

The technopark will enable service and maintenance of the Belarusian agricultural machines sold to Mongolia. The sides plan to sign an investment contract. It will be signed by the Mongolian ministry on the one side and Belarusian agricultural mechanical engineering companies on the other side. Minsk Tractor Works, Gomselmash, Bobruiskagromash, and Lidselmash have expressed their interest in the project. In turn, the Mongolian side will find companies ready to work with the technopark.

Khaltmaa Battulga remarked that Belarus tractors are well-known in Mongolia. They were used in the 1950s to develop virgin lands. At present Mongolia buys tractors from several foreign companies, including Chinese ones. However, Mongolian customers are not satisfied with the quality of these machines and are considering the possibility of cooperating with Belarus for the sake of setting up the technopark and enabling all the services. Apart from that, Mongolia is interested in buying small-capacity tractors for farmers. The possibility of implementing other Belarusian-Mongolian projects is under consideration.

At present OAO BelAZ is the largest Belarusian supplier of products to Mongolia. Last year the company shipped 34 mine dump trucks to Mongolia. BelAZ plans to set up a center to sell and service dump trucks together with a Mongolian company in Ulan Bator by September 2013.

In 2011-2012 Minsk Tractor Works sold $1.5 million worth of tractors to Mongolia. In 2012 Mogilevliftmash shipped 27 elevators worth $361,000 to Mongolia. ZAO Atlant has contracted to deliver 1,500 refrigerators and freezers in 2013.

The Mongolian guests remarked that MAZ buses suit their climate and invited the holding company BelavtoMAZ to take part in tenders for the delivery of passenger automobiles.

In 2012 enterprises accountable to the Industry Ministry shipped $24 million worth of merchandise to Mongolia. In January-February 2013 the shipments reached $15.3 million, 25% up from January-February 2012. The main Belarusian exports to Mongolia include BelAZ mining vehicles and spare parts, Atlant refrigerators, iron castings made by Minsk Plant of Heating Equipment, Mogilevliftmash elevators, transformers made by Minsk Electrotechnical Plant named after V.I. Kozlov, tractors made by Bobruisk Plant of Tractor Parts and Units and by Minsk Tractor Works, equipment for processing poultry meat, nuts, vegetables made by Grodno-based OAO Torgmash, potato cultivation machines made by the holding company Lidselmash, balers and tedder rakes made by Bobruiskagromash.