MINSK, 28 September (BelTA) – The first of the two shaft boring roadheaders (SBR machines) has been delivered to the site of the Nezhinsky potash mining and processing factory in Lyuban District, Minsk Oblast, the IOOO Slavkaliy press service told BelTA.
Since an SBR machine is large and weighs about 400 tonnes, it was delivered part by part in 42 semi trucks. The SBR machine is being assembled now. Once assembled, it will have to pass a test check. This modification of tunneling machines is the world's first.
The second SBR machine is being prepared for delivery to Belarus at a factory of Herrenknecht Company in the German city of Schwanau. The second SBR machine will be delivered part by part in late October.
BelTA reported earlier that in September 2015 Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and the businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev placed a time capsule at the construction site to mark the beginning of the project to build the Nezhinsky potash mining and processing factory using the Starobinskoye potash salts deposit. It will be the second company in Belarus to mine potash ore and make potash fertilizers with the output capacity of up to 2 million tonnes of potassium chloride per annum. As part of the investment project one mining facility will be built in addition to a processing plant, a gas turbine power plant the enterprise will need, railway infrastructure, access roads, housing infrastructure, and other kinds. The construction of the Nezhinsky mining and processing factory began in 2016. IOOO Slavkaliy is in charge of implementing the project.
