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World class engineering Belarus Agro-Industrial silo complex successfully completed by Zheng Chang Group, China
Zheng Chang Group, one of China’s leading equipment and turnkey providers to the global feed sector, has carried out one of its largest constructions ever with the completion of the Belarus Agro-Industrial Complex within a three-year period. Here, the company takes us through a brief stage-by-stage progress review based on times and completion points during the projects construction
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he Belarusian agro-industrial project - formerly known as the ‘2016-2012 Full Cycle High-tech Agro-industrial Complex’ - was to be implemented and constructed in two phases, over a total construction period of 36 months beginning in mid-2019. The project included new amino acid plants, high-tech balanced compound feed production plants, grain silos with advanced drying features, cogeneration power stations, and supporting infrastructure projects such as railways, highways, natural gas pipelines and power transmission lines. This colossal project was not only an impressive milestone in Zheng Chang Group’s construction history, but also serves as the largest and most advanced project on the ‘Belt and Road.’ The project plays a key role in improving the number of feed processing, breeding and storage amenities in Belarus.
First steps
A preliminary investigation was carried out between 2016-17. The Belarusian National Biological Group and CITIC Group
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chose Zheng Chang for their construction project after nearly two years of investigations and inspecting both domestic and foreign feed equipment, storage equipment and complete system service providers. Zheng Chang offered many competitive features which meant that they were a perfect fit for the job: Engineering and design: - Using three-dimensional digital designs, precise planning to be carried out for every step of the production process. Attention to detail was evident from the layout of the whole plant, through to process design, installation, electrical control, production technology and training Equipment - The equipment provided by Zheng Chang greatly helps improve feed quality and production efficiency Steel silos - Zheng Chang’s steel silos offer strong corrosion resistance, a very small carbon footprint, as well as being both beautiful and durable
The signing ceremony
Mr Hao Bo, Chairman of Zheng Chang, successfully signed a contract with CITIC Construction in December 2018 to begin production of the feed production line as part of the Belarusian agro-industrial complex project.