Investment Projects

Construction materials’ production. Application of dry  greenfield technology. Process equipment supplier - FLSmidth (Denmark), a world-leading company. Annual capacity – up to 3,5 million t of concrete.

The project involves creation of a laboratory for cloning and reproduction of planting material and a factory for manufacturing of disposable tableware. Manufacturing will support import substitution. According to statistics, import of disposable tableware is currently valued at USD 3 billion per year. Our products will be twice as cheap and better in quality then analogues.

Type of project: new construction based on an existing property complex.

The competitive advantage of the project is in the use of advanced cellulose material - harvesting of Miscanthus giganteus that allows considerable reduction of product cost.

Area: 2,000-5,000 ha belonging to a hunting husbandry. The park territory should be fully identical to the natural habitat (forests, meadows, lakes, rivers, artificial hills, ponds). A part of the park territory is to be fenced. Various types of routes are to be established (hiking, riding, cycling).  

Animals: 35-40 species of large and medium-sized herbivores, including exotic ones (from 100s to 1,000s animals), as well as bears, large felines, and birds. There are to be hotels, guest houses, education and entertainment centers, ethnic villages, facilities for active recreation, contact zoos (domesticated and small wild animals) in the park. Park guests  will be able to enjoy sleighing (deer, dogs, horses).

A new unique technology for continuous non-autoclaved technical grade plaster production has been developed and a relevant patent has been obtained. The cost of production is similar to that of construction grade plaster.

The new technology will result in discontinuing older processes for technical and construction plaster production. Apart from that, high-strength construction and technical grade plaster will be able to replace concrete in certain applications.

Plaster has a number of important advantages as compared to concrete. For instance, power costs associated with plaster production are 4-5-fold lower as compared to similar costs for concreate production. Furthermore, plaster setting takes minutes, while concrete setting takes a day.

The application of inexpensive fast-setting plaster in construction will significantly change the industry.

A business concept for application of plaster in construction industry has been developed. Plaster is viewed as a main construction material for production of pre-fabricated large blocks.

The project provides for large-scale replication of production process both in Russia and abroad.

Modernization of production on the basis of the existing property complex. The project involves an increase in the range of products in the production of building materials (brick cladding, wall blocks)

The project provides for launching of  food pectin fiber production of sugar sand production scraps. In the course of sugar production from sugar beet sugar-free beet pectin fiber is generated as production waste.   The fiber is used as a raw material for production of pectin  (Е440 additive) and food fibers. There are no pectin-producing plants in Russia, thus all pectin and food fibers used in Russia are of foreign origin.  

 Production process in brief: Dry beet pulp (pectin fibers) is purchased at sugar plants (RUR 5-7/kg). Dirt is removed by water, fibers are whitened (whitening degree similar to wheat), dried, milled  (grinding fineness < 100 μm) and packed in valve bags. Cost of production – RUR 50/kg. Currently food  fibers are sold at RUR. 120-180/kg, depending on fiber quality. 
Fibers are used in all sectors of food industry, including production of milk, confectionery products, bread, meat uncooked food, juice, etc. Fiber content in finished products – up to 25%.  All food plants use fibers.   
Soy fiber (US$ 4/kg) is the main competitor. The only Russian plant producing food fibers is Uzlovaya Milk Plant (Tula Region). It has a capacity of 20 t per day.   

Competitive advantages as compared to soy fibers:
1) Moisture-retaining capacity of soy fiber is 5 (pectin fiber – 15).  
2) The cost of soy fiber – US$ 4/kg, pectin fiber – RUR 120/kg.  

Competitive advantages as compared Uzlovaya Milk Plant products: Uzlovaya Milk Plant  fiber whiteness – 75 units, Agrokomservis OOO fiber - 85 units. Whiteness is the second key quality parameter in terms of importance following moisture retaining capacity.   

Street lighting management in smart city.

Key idea: installation of a new device at street lighting sources, having the following functions:

1. At night time it is to respond to movements near the lighting source  in automated mode
2. It changes the lighting source mode of operation increasing/decreasing its brightness in automated mode.

Protection of power lines, transport and other facilities against ice and snow.
Ice and snow are identified in an automatic mode and removed by vibration generators.

Protection of people, including equipment operators against blinding by powerful lighting sources.  
The system is to increase awareness of drivers, and pilots through radio exchange between transportation means being in dangerously close proximity. 

Investments: US$1,000,000 (stage I – US$700,000, stage II – US$300,000). 

As a part of OP OOO "Sphera" there is a modern mechanical repair complex and shop of reinforcing production. The enterprise is equipped with the equipment allowing to let out products of large-panel housing construction and a wide range of products of the General reinforced concrete: hollow, road, base plates, piles, weighting agents for the gas pipeline and other reinforced concrete products and a metalwork. Specialization - production of products of large-panel housing construction and reinforced concrete products.

Arranging for joint productions of ArtFacade thermal panels, façade facing tiles, roofing slabs, and leave-in-place forms.

The purpose of the project is to create a network of facilities to produce ArtFacade products within the Eco System Project of TechnoNIKOL and ArtFacade Group.

ArtFacade creates production shops in 5 Russian regions where TechnoNIKOL plants producing XPS extrusion polystyrene foam are located, manufactures required equipment, fine-tunes the technology, and launches these facilities.

TechnoNIKOL provides aid and assistance in sale of the produced products using its own distribution network, and provides relevant technical support.

The total value of the project is RUB 100 mln, including the creation of 5 production shops and their full-scale development. To implement this project, it is required to manufacture a semi-automated line to produce 10 mm thick façade facing tiles with special inserts having a capacity of 8,000-10,000 m²/month for producing ArtFacade façade thermal systems.