PO Barrikada to Sponsor ICCX 2007 Congres

From December 5 to December 7, 2007 St. Petersburg will be hosting ICCX 2007, a congress of International Concrete Conference & Exhibition (ICCX).

The keenness of the world construction community on the congress is emphasized by the fact that the event is to be held in St. Petersburg for a third time, and the number of its participants keeps growing from year to year. If in 2005 the ICCX Congress was attended by 450 delegates, this year at least 600 to 700 specialists are to get together in St. Petersburg. A large number of them are expected to come from Russia and Near Abroad with industrial decision makers also coming from the USA, Germany, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Italy and other countries.

The presentations of all of the participants focus on the production trends and applications of concrete and reinforced concrete products. Given the fact that concrete and its products are widely used in all areas of construction, ICCX Congress events may attract both the manufacturers and consumers of the popular building material. In particular, the Congress will discuss the applications of high-strength and super-strength concrete, the delegates will have a chance to learn about the experience in manufacturing architectural faзades using reinforced concrete and the methods for tackling production automation tasks.

The growing height of buildings erected in St. Petersburg gives rise to a particular interest in such issues to be addressed by the Congress as designing, manufacturing and constructing reinforced concrete buildings having more than 30 stories.

The leading manufacturers of equipment for concrete and concrete items production will display their achievements in the exhibition to be held in the framework of the ICCX Congress including Pedershaab, Nordimpianti, MBK, BFS Casagrande, TopWerk, Hess, EBAWE/Progress, Kobra, Echo, Masa, Elematic…

The ICCX 2007 Conference is organized by the International Concrete Production journal distributed in 120 countries. The general sponsor of the event is OJSC PO Barrikada so ICCX 2007 delegates will benefit from familiarizing themselves with German technology-based manufacture of well components. In addition, the last conference day features a city sightseeing tour including visits to advanced industrial companies in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region to give the congress participants a chance to eyewitness the operation of existing reinforced concrete plants. 

For reference

Journals Ad-media Verlag GmbH BetonWerk International, Concrete Plant International, Planta de Hormigon Internacional, Calcestruzzo & Prefabricazione Internacional and International Concrete Review are published in German, English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Russian and French. The aforesaid publications are the leading trade journals distributed in 120 countries worldwide.

OJSC PO Barrikada is a reinforced concrete products company. Founded in 1907 by Andrei B. Ellers, the company got its current name in 1922. In 2002, PO Barrikada joined LSR Group.

Barrikada has 6 production facilities including four sites in St. Petersburg, one in the Leningrad Region, and one facility in Moscow. The company supplies its products to housing, industrial and road and public service construction projects. Its product mix includes approximately 4,000 items. Barrikada’s reinforced concrete products are used to construct residential and industrial building, commercial properties (shopping and entertainment centres, hypermarkets, warehousing terminals etc.), for road construction and maintenance, and for installation of engineering networks and facilities.

Apart from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Barrikada supplies its products to Pskov, Novgorod, Rostov-on-the-Don, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Extreme North areas and a number of other regions in Russia.

From January 2006, Barrikada brand products are marketed in Moscow as Moscow-based company, OJSC ZhBI-6 joined LSR Group.

OJSC LSR Group is a vertically integrated diversified company founded in 1993. Its core business areas are building materials, construction and real estate development. The Group includes enterprises for aggregates extraction and processing, building materials manufacturing and transportation, and housing construction – from mass market large-panel housing to elite residential property built after designs made by leading domestic and foreign architects.

LSR Group has companies and offices in St. Petersburg, Moscow, a number of cities in Leningrad Oblast, in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine and Germany. LSR Group employs over 15,000 people.