Low Capacity Brick Factories

The article outlines the concept of construction of seasonal plants of small and medium capacity with proposals to complete them exclusively with domestic equipment and economic justification of profitability of such enterprises. It should be noted that, contrary to popular opinion, the idea of building small and medium capacity plants, including seasonal operation, has proven to be quite viable and reasonable for a number of southern and central regions of Russia and, in the future, for the new regions of Novorossiya, where agriculture is the main type of activity. This is due to climate, population density, building traditions and many other factors. In the foreign press, small factories are mentioned not only in terms of special products, but also as branches of large enterprises for the development of small deposits of unique clay raw materials, on the basis of which the production of facade building ceramics is organized.

N.G. GUROV¹, General Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
R.N. GUROV¹, Engineer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
G.I. STOROZHENKO², Doctor of Sciences (Engineering) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

¹ Southern Research Institute of Building Materials (105, build 1, Nansena Street, Rostov-on-Don, 344038, Russian Federation)
² Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SIBSTRIN) (113, Leningradskaya Street, Novosibirsk, 630008, Russian Federation)

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