Moscow, April 4. The Aluminum Association considers it necessary to develop its own production of three-layer sandwich panels with aluminium lining in Russia. The meeting on this issue was initiated by the Association at the Moscow production of the ProfHolod company, a leader in the production of panels with PIR/PUR filler.
To date, the European panel market is estimated at 130 million square meters, 18 million square meters of which is made of aluminium with a volume of aluminium consumption of 65 thousand tonnes. In Russia, the panel market is 32 million square meters at the moment, while aluminium panels are not produced at all. "It is necessary to develop the production of aluminium sandwich panels at domestic enterprises and to bring the level of production of such products to 3.2 million square meters in the near future," Valentin Trishchenko, the Chairman of the Aluminum Association, believes it to be an achievable goal for the industry.
This production should be developed with a focus on facilities with low-, medium-and highly aggressive operating conditions, as well as on objects with special hygienic and sanitary requirements. Such panels will be requested for the construction of livestock and agricultural complexes, warehouses for storage of aggressive substances and materials, chemical and oil and gas industry facilities, refrigeration industrial warehouses, food industry facilities, pharmaceutical industry facilities, medical industry facilities and a number of other areas. However, the main advantages of aluminium panels will be longevity, low operating costs and low weight. The cost of sandwich panels with aluminium lining is half the cost of panels with stainless steel lining and only 15% higher than the cost of panels with galvanized steel sheet lining.
Following the results of executed work, a number of Russian manufacturers expressed their desire to produce aluminium panels. There are already prototype examples of this product now. Its certification is expected in the third quarter of 2017, and repetitive production and installation on pilot projects – by the end of this year.