MINSK, 23 March (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko is on a visit to the Minsk Leather Production Association on 23 March, BelTA has learned.
The president will be briefed on the state and prospects of the country's leather industry and the development strategy of the Minsk Leather Production Association.
Aleksandr Lukashenko will familiarize himself with technological processes of producing leather goods, study samples of finished and semi-finished products, and talk with the company's staff.
There are four leather manufacturers in Belarus. In addition to the Minsk Leather Production Association, these are Bobruisk Tannery, the Grodno Leather Production Association and SKINTECH. Their aggregate production capacity is 493 million square decimeters of leather goods per year. These companies are capable of processing all leather raw materials produced in the country. In 2020, they manufactured 372.5 million square decimeters of leather goods in kind, including 181.3 million square decimeters of finished leather goods, and 191.2 million square decimeters of tanned semi-finished products.
The industry is facing some persistent issues, including the quality of raw hides.
The Minsk Leather Production Association is the largest and most technically advanced tannery in Belarus. It employs almost 500 people, the average monthly salary here is over Br1,000.
