Belarus May Become Center of Nonwovens Production in Eastern Europe

摘要

Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, may become one of the centers of nonwovens production in the European continent, due to recently announced plans of Svetlogorsk Himvolokno, the country's state-owned nonwovens monopoly, to invest up to $500 million in a significant expansion of nonwovens production in the country during the next several years. In recent years the development of the nonwovens industry has become one of the priorities for the Belarus government, while implementation of the majority of projects in the industry is personally controlled by Belarus' president Alexander Lukashenko.