Independent all-arounders
Precast plants in Russia manufacture not only precast parts all the time. Some facilities manufacture their own formwork tables, shuttering profiles, and the molds along with them. Others manufacture additional parts for their own production, such as insulation material, form liners, and fastening products. BFT editors recently saw good evidence of this situation during a journalistic tour.
What’s the reason here? One explanation: many of the large production facilities around metropolitan areas such as Moscow or St. Petersburg have evolved from the old state-owned collective combines that...
