General Electric to make electric drives in Belarus

      The U.S. corporation General Electric intends to start making electric drives in Belarus, BelTA quotes representatives of Belarusian Autoworks BelAZ trademark as saying after a delegation of the American corporation led by the director general of GE Transportation Mining, a daughter enterprise of General Electric, visited the Belarusian company. Joint work on the project to localize and make GE electric drives at Belarusian enterprises was the purpose of the visit, BelAZ representatives noted. The source specified that the electric drives are intended for BelAZ rock haulers. For now BelAZ mainly relies on Siemens electric drives. BelAZ representatives also said that the talks focused on stepping up the joint efforts to promote BelAZ rock haulers powered by GE electric drives on promising CIS and non-CIS markets — Latin America, Africa, India, Indonesia.
     After getting familiar with the Belarusian enterprise the director general of GE Transportation Mining expressed hope for tighter cooperation and said it was quite feasible.