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KHERSON PLANT TO PRESENT FIRST SKIF 280 SUPERIOR COMBINE MADE ON BASIS OF FINNISH SAMPO ROSENLEW AT AGRO 2017

5 May , 2017  

KYIV. May 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kherson machine building plant this year started producing Skif 280 Superior grain harvester, seeking to make 10 machines a month.
According to a posting on the website of Ukraine’s Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry, the new harvester created on the basis of Finnish Sampo Rosenlew SR 3085 Superior, will be presented at the Agro 2017 international exhibition to take place in Kyiv on June 7 through June 10.
The harvester has technical specification of foreign analogs, but its price will be smaller.
As reported, Sampo Rosenlew and Kharkiv Tractor Plant in 2015 announced the launch of a joint project to produce combines. They planned to make around 200 combines in 2016 and boost production to 500 units by 2018.
However, late 2015, the project was frozen under the initiative of Finland.
Kherson machine building plant in 2013 intended to organize joint production of combines with Belarus’ Gomselmash and then it