In late April, Anatoly Chekmenev visited the Republic of Belarus as part of a business trip

4 May 2023

The first planned meeting was visiting the company «Granit» Group in Mikashevichi. Republican unitary production enterprise «Granit» (GRUP «Granit») is the largest enterprise in Europe for the production and processing of dense rocks, is in state ownership and is subordinate to the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus. The history of the deposit began in 1963 when the Southern Belarusian Expedition discovered large reserves of building stone and gave them the name Mikashevich Ledge. The building stone deposit «Mikashevichi» is 500 m west of Mikashevichi, Luninetsky District, Brest Oblast. Detailed exploration of the field «Mikashevichi» was first carried out in 1963. The field is shaped like a rectangle with a total area of about 377 hectares. «Mikashevichi» construction stone deposit has been developed by the «Mikashevichi» quarry since 1973. Currently, the «Mikashevichi» quarry is the largest open mine in Central Europe. The quarry stretched 2,760 m from west to east and 1,770 m from north to south, consisting of 4 open and 11 mining concessions. The depth of the quarry is 150 m, 20 m below the level of the Baltic Sea.

Anatoly Nikolayevich held talks with the General Director of the Granit Group, Eduard Gavrilkovich, who was at the observation platform of the quarry and visited the enterprise museum.

The history of the relationship between the company «Granit» and «Rudgormash» began in 2016 with the supply of drilling machines. Further, within 3 years, there were more deliveries, and more than 10 SBW machines were delivered.

These working machines we saw with our own eyes in the quarry and, without criticism, operators. The tender for the purchase of the drilling rig by the «Granite» company is underway.
The second planned meeting was with the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Director General Nabeshko Sergey Vladimirovich.

The talks touched on cross-border activities in the direction of industry and the exchange of information on the exhibition's thematic events for 2023.  Also, at the moment, the requests of the companies that are members of the Industry Committee of the CCI with Belarus are being formed. We talked about the upcoming conference, «Association of subsoil users of Chernozemya», which will be held in Voronezh on May 25-26.

The final meeting was negotiations with the company «Remeza» of Rogachev. This company is a supplier of compressor systems for our drilling rigs.

JSC «Remeza» - Belarusian enterprise Repair-Mechanical Plant. It was founded in 1989 as a machine-building production.

The enterprise's main objective is to produce reliable compressor equipment in the middle-price segment.

At present REMEZA compressor equipment (main production of JSC «Remeza») is a well-established piece of equipment supplied to 30 countries of the world.

Anatoly Nikolayevich held talks with Ukolov Anton Alexandrovich, director of CJSC «Remeza» on the terms and terms of delivery.

In general, the trip was productive and, timely, several agreements were reached that will positively affect the enterprise's activities.