Lukashenko: Legmash plant should continue focusing on everything it traditionally produced for exports

All the products that the Orsha Legmash Plant has traditionally produced for exports should be further manufactured, and production volumes should grow – as noted by President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko as he visited the enterprise today

From 2018 to 2023, the production volumes at Legmash Plant JSC increased almost eight times, and wages rose 4-fold. The profitability of sales of its products rose by 12 percent.

By now, the company has been largely redesigned to meet the needs of the military-industrial complex. At the same time, the Head of State sets a fundamental task not to forget traditional activities: in particular, production of goods for the oil and gas industry that are in demand in foreign markets or cast-iron pans and cauldrons that enjoy popularity among consumers.  

“We must do everything to ensure that it [the plant] retained this production. There are skills, a school and people. They know how to do it, they should do it,” the President noted.

Dmitry Pantus, the Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry, assured that this is the way the company will develop. The Head of State instructed the State Control Committee to take this aspect under the strictest control, “Everything that it [the plant] produced for exports should be further manufactured. Exports mean foreign currency. It has started organising the military-industrial production here, and it is a necessary point. This entails serious responsibility. It has used everything possible here to contribute to the military-industrial complex. As for exports, peaceful products should be further made, and their production must increase. Ruining exports is a crime.”

The President was also reported on the state of affairs at the enterprise and its prospects. There are plans to expand the range of products that have not been produced before, and the Head of State stressed, “It does not matter what we lacked in our production. We cannot all time focus on old technologies: serious products should be made.” 

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