OREANDA-NEWS. Austria's STATEC BINDER GmbH will supply an automatic facility for packing salt tablets into PP and PE bags for Belarus' OAO Mozyrsol (Gomel Region), a Mozyrsol representative told.

The total value of the contract is €870,000.

At the moment, OAO Mozyrsol is implementing a production upgrade programme, with as much as Br70 billion (USD 7.322 million) invested in 2013.

As previously reported, OAO Mozyrsol is implementing a project to increase salt output by 33.3% to 480,000 tonnes per year. The company has already purchased five sets of automated packing equipment and three pelletizers.

Established in 1982, OAO Mozyrsol is a major producer of salt in Belarus.