The secret of the longevity of a pensioner from Cherven, the innovations of the cement plant in Kostyukovichi - the announcement of the newspapers of the holding "Belarus Today" on September 30

In the newspapers of the publishing house “Belarus Today”, the reader can always find informative and useful information, interesting interviews and analytics. In the traditional review, sb.by journalists collected the most interesting materials that will appear on the pages of the SB publications. Belarus Today, "Republic" on Wednesday, September 30.

Easy walk, all on the positive... Recites Pushkin, talks about his intense youth and good-natured jokes - they say, not every day he is lucky to find his kilometers in the company of beautiful girls.

What's his recipe for happy longevity? The man confesses:

- Daily traffic, clean air and a lively interest in the life of the country and people. Walking the health trail in the woods is my daily itinerary. I've been here since seven in the morning in any weather. A light breakfast and a walk. Every day I walk 10 thousand steps — so the doctor ordered, giving a hard ultimatum: stop walking, do not come to me. What's the air like? This coniferous forest is a sin to live next to it and not to eat from it health. After a morning walk in the woods, I return home for a swimsuit. Why does an 83-year-old man have so much energy? Perhaps the best thing parents can do for their child in life is to enroll him in the sports section. I was born during the war, seven months old than I had ever been ill. He got into the freestyle wrestling section and trained so hard and burned with the desire to win that he got into the BSSR national team. Sports career is long gone, but it was then that a healthy lifestyle became one of the important elements of my value system. Iron discipline, giving up alcohol and other bad habits, aspiration, concentration - all this helps me in life, both when I was running a school in Cherven, and when I was building my own business. We dream of only one thing: to keep up to 100 years of clear mind and activity. Talked with active pensioner Natalia Ostapchuk. Economy, ecology and import substitution - what tasks are the investment projects of the cement plant in Kostyukovichi solving?

Two major investment projects that will have a comprehensive impact on the economy of the enterprise, the environmental situation in the area and the level of import dependence of the industry are being implemented by OJSC Belarusian Cement Plant. We are talking about the transition of one of the production lines to mechanical transport and the introduction of RDF fuel technology. The cost of production will decrease, and the competitiveness of the plant will increase.

As the general director of the enterprise Evgeny Voloshchik noted, the first project concerns the transition to mechanical transport instead of pneumatic transport: Pneumatic transport has outlived its usefulness. Its use is inefficient due to the constant operation of energy-intensive equipment - for example, the compressor on our first line, launched in 1996, consumes too much electricity. Mechanical transport has already proved its effectiveness in a number of enterprises. The transition to it and the commissioning of new equipment are planned for early 2027, which will significantly reduce the cost of cement production. The second project is bigger. Its implementation took a long time - its development began in 2018. The project involves the use of RDF fuel, which is produced from recycled municipal solid waste, cleared of secondary material resources. The introduction of the technology at BCZ is scheduled for the first half of 2027. Currently, we replace imported raw materials with local peat, and since 2008 we have been using worn tires as an alternative fuel on the first production line. In the future, we intend to actively use RDF fuel. At the initial stage, this will compensate about 20 percent of imported coal, and in the future this share will become even higher. For the cement plant in Kostyukovichi, this step will solve not only the economic problem (such fuel is four times cheaper), but also an important environmental problem. The technology, which has been widely used in the world since the 1970s, will reduce landfills without risk to the atmosphere.

Due to what the plant holds the leadership and what the implementation of current investment projects will give, Lyubov Solovyov learned.