OREANDA-NEWS. August 03, 2010. Gomselmash has designed a new self-propelled corncob harvester. The machine will be tested in China in September-October.

The new machine that has a working title of KPS-4 (self-propelled corncob four-row harvester) will be assembled at Belarus-China joint venture in China’s Heilongjiang Province (administrative center Harbin). Two machine sets of the harvesters have already been delivered to China. A group of Belarusian specialists has left for China to monitor the assembling, setting-up and testing of harvesters.

According to Ivan Proturo, the mass production of corncob harvesters is a new and very promising area of operation of the joint venture. “This corn harvesting technology is very common in China, more common than the one used in Belarus. The Chinese market is huge, this is why the both sides are sincerely interested in the project,” he said.

A reminder, the joint venture was set up by Belarus’ Gomselmash and China’s Dong Jin Group. At first, the joint venture will assemble self-propelled forage harvesters KSK-600 Palesse FS60. In line with a business plan, 100 machines are to be assembled in 2010. Palesse FS60 is designed to harvest tall-stalked cultures (corn, sunflower), haymaking and other works.

The manufacturing corporation Gomselmash is a multi-business producer of machines designed to cultivate and harvest crops using contemporary agrarian technologies. The Gomselmash line-up includes machines for harvesting grain, forage crops, sugar beet, potato, as well as mowers and machines for complex soil cultivation.