OREANDA-NEWS. May 14, 2010. President Sargsyan attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Russian Afina Palada company’s SMT factory for the production of modern medical equipment.

The factory will be producing disposable medical items. The enterprise will create 800 jobs, 400 of them – at the initial stage.

The factory will be equipped with state-of-art appliances. Fifty percent of the SMT production will be sold at the domestic market, the other fifty percent will be exported.

The factory is to present its first production in the end of the first quarter in 2011.