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Press Release
April 2009

Official opening of the OAO "Kirovo-Tschepezky Kirpitschny Zavod" brick factory

[April 2009] The opening of the modern facing brickwork OAO "Kirovo-Tschepezky Kirpitschny Zavod", took place in Kirovo-Tschepezk, the second largest town in the Kirow area, on December 18, 2008, in the presence of the highest dignitaries in the area.

The senior politicians of the Kirowskaja area, the outgoing Governor Mr. Nikolai Ivanowitsch Schaklein and the newly sworn in Governor Nikita Jurjewitsch Belych used this state occasion for a first combined appearance in public, much to the delight of the investors and the invited guests from home and abroad.

On this special day, the General Manager of the OOO "SOJUZ" Mr. Sergej Leonidovic Zykov and the Area Sales Manager of KELLER HCW GmbH Mr. Torsten Bärtels had the great honour to cut through the "ribbon" and thereby sealing the opening act with both Governors.

After the official speeches by the Governors, the area government, the investors, the bank and the representatives of all companies significantly involved in this project, the complete brick factory was blessed by the ecclesiastical dignitary.

The OAO "Kirovo-Tschepezky Kirpitschny Zavod" company opened the brick factory at the same location where the first brick factory was built at the beginning of the last century.
This so far first state-of-the-art brick factory – for Russian standards – has been built in a record time and within the original contract time schedule.
The brick factory will, with its own local raw materials, provide the area itself and the bordering regions with 42.3 million NF-units of high quality aesthetic ceramic bricks per year.

From today on production will be effected according to the motto of the OAO "Kirovo-Tschepezky company Kirpitschny Zavod": «We shape the best component from something which was once been created by nature.»

In the highly automated plant, besides first-class facing bricks, it also possible to manufacture heat-insulating blocks of a good quality according to GOST 530-2008 and EN 771-1.

During the construction phase a 12,000 m² large factory hall in a modern design and with optimum utilities as well as the most modern heating and ventilation technology was built. It was equipped with the most innovative technology «Made in Germany».

An innovative and flexible chamber dryer and an ultra-modern energy-saving tunnel kiln with a temporary reduction device (flashing) are in the centre of the production line.
A user and maintenance-friendly production line on the Greenfield site could be projected with creative material flow concepts, intelligently combined material preparation and shaping, individually conceived automation, tailor-made machine solutions and robot technology for the feeding and handover as well as the handling between the chamber dryer and tunnel kiln.

With the realization of the brick factory using the latest technology, many new and interesting jobs have been provided for the people in the town and bordering regions. The training of the specialists took place in Germany and in the brick factory.

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