METAL GOODS PLANT

When Klimovichi became district center in 1924, a power station, a saw-mill and a mill were built in the city. The former two were commissioned in 1926, while the latter started working a year later.

All these enterprises formed an artel (a workmen's association). In 1928 the association also received the bath-house, hotels and all mills in the district. The bath-house and hotels were soon transferred to town communal organization, while mills were transferred to collective farms.

In 1934 a joiner's workshop was commissioned at the association. Before Second World War the association had "four mills, locksmith's, blacksmith's and joiner's workshops, and a power station which generated power for the town and the hospital".

The reconstruction of enterprises destroyed during the war began right after it ended. Several workmen's associations merged to form a district industrial complex. As of December 1944, "three mills have been renovated. Blacksmith's and joiner's workshops and a brick plant were working. The latter received new equipment in 1945, a locksmith's workshop for ten workers and a cooper's shop were organised. The industrial complex employed 93 people and fulfilled the yearly target at 169%".

In the 50-s a steam turbo set (1000 kilowatt) and a diesel power set (300 kilowatt) were installed to supply the town with electric energy.
In 1953 the complex opened a fur shop and a spinning shop.

In 1956 the complex starts making red bricks, furniture, mattresses and repairing footwear.
In 1958 the complex launches metal working and makes children's sledges, nails, bread baking moulds.

In 1965 the complex makes 100 KDK-2 baby carriages, more than 8 thousand school desks, 60 thousand sledges, 1,397 concrete well rings, 3,327 ferro-concrete polls, grinds 688 tons of grain and saws 1,551 cubic m of timber.
At present the plant specialises in making baby carriages and children's sledges.

KLIMOVICHI DAIRY FACTORY

A small butter mill worked in Klimovichi prior to the second World War. It was to be transferred to a bigger building at the former market square, but the project was not implemented because of the war.
A temporary butter mill in a wooden building was commissioned in 1945. It turned out butter and other dairy foodstuffs. In 1947 the plant was transferred to a brick building built in 1905. In 1948 the plant was fully equipped and worked till 1970.

In 1968 the plant had 70 employees. Throughout the year it processed 146,540 centners of milk and made 5,576 centners of butter, 4.84 centners of cheese, 10,222.8 centners of whole milk, 294.6 centners of ice cream, 1,673.3 centners of sour milk foodstuffs, 1,492.1 centners of milk powder, alongside with casein, diet cheese and cottage cheese.

A new butter and milk powder factory was commissioned in 1970 near the village of Khoten. It could process 50 tons of milk per shift at the Czech equipment. Foodstuffs were sold locally, butter and low-fat milk were sold all over the country.

In 1971-1980 Klimovichi butter and milk plant was a chief enterprise with affiliates in Khotimsk and Kostiukovichi.

After reconstruction and re-equipment the plant's capacities reached 200 tons of milk per 24 hours. At present the plant employs 121 people. Its major produce is butter, non-fat milk powder, sour cream, cream, vitamin milk, various kinds of cottage cheese, kefir, diet cheese.

РУП "KLIMOVICHI DISTILLERY"

The company turns out vodka, liqueurs, rectified alcohol, wines, confectionery, polyethylene packaging. Address: 312600, Klimovichi, 10, Naberezhnaya str. Tel.: 56-530 Director: Viacheslav Romashkevich.
The plant was founded on the basis of a distillery belonging to landlord Kaminski. The building of the plant was constructed by Germans in 1858. The Germans owned the plant alongside with the landlord till 1914, afterwards it was owned by the latter.

Before October revolution the plant received raw alcohol from Klimovichi district. Rectified alcohol was shipped to Cherikov, where vodka was made.

At the end of the 20-s a fruit and wine workshop was opened at the company.

It turned out apple sauce for Leningrad confectionery, jams and fruit wine. There was also a secret shop which dried potatoes for the Red Army.

In 1941 the equipment of the workshop was evacuated to Nizhni Tagil. After the war the plant was not reconstructed.

In 1937 the plant started assembling conveyers for bottling and labelling produce, but all operations were performed by hand.

There were four conveyers at the plant till 1941 serviced by 4 crews. The best was Daria Mikheyeva's crew, that became first at the Union-wide contest. The town had one vodka shop under the plant.

During the occupation years the plant was destroyed. The most expensive equipment was evacuated to the rear. While retreating the Nazis took the rectifying device and blew up everything else. The very building of the plant remained undamaged.

The reconstruction lasted from 1944 till 1950, but the plant started making vodka in 1944 already. The produce was sold in barrels.

In 1948 the plant started making bottled vodka.

In 1950 the plant was fully rebuilt. It comprised the rectifying workshop, the bottling shop, the bottle washing shop, the liqueurs shop, and bottling equipment.

In 1956 bottle washing was mechanised. In 1960 new automatic bottling lines (6,000 bottles per hour) were installed.

Five automatic bottling lines were fully equipped in 1967-1969, further on they were modernised.

In 1948-1958 the plant had a rectifying device which worked in shifts. Later on it was exchanged with a permanent action device from German Goltsern-Grimma company with a capacity of 780 dkl per 24 hours.

The plant turned out vodka, liqueurs, sweet alcoholic beverages. In 1959 the plant turned out a batch of Soviet Rum, in 1963 - Soviet Whisky.

In 1960 a wine shop with a capacity of 8 thousand dkl was organised instead of a liqueurs shop. In 1984 the workshop turned out a record of 1,410 decaliters.

In the 70-s the plant's produce in china decanters and souvenir bottles was very popular.

A new rectification building, an artesian well, a pump station and a three-storey administrative building were commissioned in 1980.

The company is seriously concerned with the wellbeing of its employees. 137 apartments have been built for them.

In 1987 the plant started making Rubinovy non-alcoholic cocktail. A confectionery workshop was opened which makes "Eastern sweets" (350 tons per year).

BAKERY COMPLEX

Project documents for building a bakery complex was adopted in 1982, construction started in 1983. On June 28, 1988 the first milling complex with a capacity of 500 tons per 24 hours and an elevator with a capacity of 27 thousand tons were launched. The second complex was commissioned in December 1989. It comprises the second elevator, a DSP-34 grain dryer, a grain conveyer, a laboratory. The third complex includes a fodder plant with a capacity of 420 tons per 24 hours.

The bakery complex makes flour, semolina, fodder. The produce is sold in Belarus and abroad. At present the company employs 544 people.