Construction with Slate – Quick Solution to the Country’s Housing Problems

General information about the state of the chrysotile cement industry in Russia and in the world since the beginning of the XX century and changes in recent decades is presented. The most intensive development of the industry is noted in Russia and the countries of the former USSR due to the largest reserves of chrysotile asbestos in these territories. The physical and technical properties of chrysotile cement products, due to which they have many advantages both in terms of operational reliability and economic attractiveness, are given. The high potential of chrysotile-cement materials in construction is justified. It is shown that the frame technology of SOVBI can provide a significant increase in demand for flat chrysotile cement sheets.

S.M. NEYMAN¹, Candidate of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
S.E. PUNENKOV², Candidate of Sciences (Engineering), Chief Technologist (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..r)

¹ NO «Hrizotilovaja Associacija» (35, build 1, Usacheva Street, 1, Moscow, 119048, Russian Federation)
² PJSC “Uralasbest” (66, Uralskaya Street, Asbest, 624260, Russian Federation)

1. Guide to terrophazerite coating. Moscow: Printing house of the Moscow Council of Workers and Red Army Deputies. 1918.
2. Komarov Ju.T. 100th anniversary of the Bryansk asbestos-cement plant. Stroitel’nye Materialy [Construction Materials]. 2008. No. 9, pp. 34–35. (In Russian).
3. Zadiraka G.N. Roofless ventilated roofs “Ural” using chrysotile cement sheets. Stroitel’nye Materialy [Construction Materials]. 2008. No. 9, pp. 16–17. (In Russian).
4. Punenkov S.E., Kozlov Ju.S., Punenkov N.S. Dynamics and prospects for the development of the chrysotile-asbestos industry. Gorno-metallurgicheskaja promyshlennost’. 2023. No. 9–10, pp. 48–55. (In Russian).
5. Zhukov A.D., Nejman S.M., Radnaeva S.Zh. Operational durability of chrysotile-cement pipes. Vestnik MGSU. 2013. No. 3, pp. 127–134. (In Russian).
6. Nejman S.M., Popov K.N., Mezhov A.G. Study of the properties of chrysotile-cement roofing sheets of various service life. Stroitel’nye Materialy [Construction Materials]. 2011. No. 5, pp. 86–88. (In Russian).
7. Nejman S.M., Vezencev A.I., Kashanskij S.V. O bezopasnosti asbestocementnyh materialov i izdelij [On the safety of asbestos-cement materials and products]. Moscow: RIF «Strojmaterialy». 2006.
8. Elovskaja L.T., Shkarednaja S.A. Asbestos: myths and reality. Promyshlennye vedomosti. 2007. No. 5–6, p. 5. (In Russian).
9. Valjukov Е.A., Volchek I.Z. Proizvodstvo asbestocementnyh izdelij metodom jekstruzii [Production of asbestos-cement products by extrusion]. Moscow: Stroyizdat. 1975. 113 p.
10. Zhusupov K.K., Agubaev T.M., Punenkov S.E. Fiction and reality about chrysotile asbestos. Gorno-geologicheskij zhurnal. 2006. No. 6, pp. 13–16.
11. Ivanov V.V., Kochelaev V.A. Antiasbestovaja kampanija: prichiny i sledstvija [Anti-asbestos campaign: causes and consequences]. Asbest: NO «Hrizotilovaya associaciya», 2006. 39 p.
12. Razzokov S., Umarov T., Khakberdyev U., Neiman S. A new way of painting slate sheets on a sheet-forming machine. Research and engineering center “Uzstroy-materialLITI” LLC. (In Russian).
13. Patent SU747843A1. Smes’ dlya izgotovleniya listovyh oblicovochnyh dekorativnyh izdeliy [Mixture for the production of sheet facing decorative products]. Kolesnikov B.I., Komarov V.A., Nejman S.M. Declared 06.04.78. Published 15.07.80.
14. Lukin E.G., Rygaev D.V., Metelica R.V., Nejman S.M., Sobolev L.V. Silicate paint for chrysotile cement products made of domestic raw materials. Stroitel’nye Materialy [Construction Materials]. 2016. No. 7, pp. 49–57. (In Russian).