OREANDA-NEWS. January 25, 2011. Belarus’ Forestry Ministry plans to invest 26 billion Belarusian rubles to build 20 timber pellet and briquet plants in 2011–2015, Forestry Minister Mikhail Amelyanovich said at a news conference.

The plants are to be built near existing timber processing complexes and use production waste as raw materials, Amelyanovich said.

Belarus also plans to set up a timber joint venture with Poland’s Paged in the Vitebsk Region in 2011, Amelyanovich said. Investments in the first stage of the project are expected to amount to 2.5 million euros.