Structural element plant (ZSK) Sandwich Panel
ZSK-Sandwich Panel, a plant to produce up to 2.5 million square metres of sandwich panels a year (when operating three shifts), was built on the initiative of the regional administration, the administration of the Lipetsk municipal district, and Promizdeliya Company.
Construction began in 2006, and the opening ceremony took place on August 9, 2007.
ZSK-Sandwich Panel is a new generation plant. It specialises in manufacturing three-layer wall and roof sandwich panels and uses equipment developed and produced by Italy's Robor S.R.L., a world leader in continuous panel manufacture.
The plant is equipped with a line capable of turning out products of any profile at a rate of 8 metres a minute. The line is fully automated and computerised and guarantees the stability of the product. Technical parameters are automatically monitored.
The technology used in the production process makes it possible to produce panels for buildings 6 metres to 90 metres wide, with one or several spans, optional numbers of storeys and without crane equipment or with cranes lifting up to 50 tonnes.
Aggregate panels find application in industry, agriculture and civil engineering.
They primarily serve as wall and roof panels. The panels are also used as internal partitions in production facilities, warehouses and shopping malls; they are ideal for enclosing commercial refrigerator storage and production facilities. Recently, sandwich panels have found wide use in making mobile buildings and collapsible modular containers.
The experience of industrial and civil construction over the past thirty years has shown that three-layer sandwich panels with effective insulation are very promising, because they ensure:
- rapid assembly and upgrade;
- low construction costs;
- energy savings in building maintenance.
An advantage of the production line installed at the plant is that it can use several types of insulating materials. Recently, a trial batch of sandwich panels incorporating a new non-flammable insulation material (foam isocyanurate) was produced and sent for certification.
The project cost 300 million roubles, of which 170 million was invested by Promizdeliye, and the rest by the founders of the company.
Output in December 2007 through November 2008 totaled 200,000 square metres. Earnings in the first nine months of 2008 were six million roubles, with 1.5 million roubles contributed to the budgets at all levels. The average wage was 15,700 roubles.
