LSR Group commemorates its 20th anniversary by improving streets in St. Petersburg

To commemorate its twentieth anniversary, LSR Group improved pedestrian areas near the new building of Boris Eifman Dance Academy and near the “Tekhnologichesky Institut” metro station in St. Petersburg. The sidewalks in the city were first paved with clinker brick of Russian manufacture.

LSR Group is the first and only large-scale producer of clinker brick in Russia. In June, 2013, an advanced line for industrial manufacturing of clinker ceramic items of various profiles with annual production capacity up to 25 million bricks was started in Nikolskoye, Leningrad region. Before that, all the paving and facing clinker brick was imported from Europe.

Merits of paving clinker brick are its high strength and durability. Abrasive strength of clinker pavement is 40 times higher than with all the other traditional paving materials. A distinctive feature of clinker brick is its high frost resistance – this material withstands up to 300 cycles of alternate freezing and defrosting, depending on the type. This is particularly relevant in the changeable weather conditions of North-West Russia.

Clinker brick is distinguished with a wide variety of natural colours which maintain their brightness for decades, and thus, it may be used for finishing building facades apart of paving sidewalks and roads. A new production line of paving and facing clinker bricks of different formats, colours and textures, figured bricks and original ceramic elements of the LSR Group brick yard in Leningrad region will provide the Russian market with affordable and reliable construction materials of the European quality standard.

Sergey Begoulev, Managing Director of LSR. Bricks and Aerated Concrete - North-West, comments:
“The Dance Academy is a significant object for Saint-Petersburg, as well as the “Tekhnologichesky Institut” metro station attended by thousands of the city residents and visitors daily. The clinker bricks that we have used for improvement of territory near these objects are several times as durable as all the other paving materials. This will be the quality and reliability benchmark of the road paving in St. Petersburg, and the bright and intense colours of the clinker brick will enrich the city palette.”


Notes to Editors:
OJSC LSR Group is a diversified construction company operating in a number of complementary market segments.  The company was founded in 1993. Its core business areas are production of building materials, panel construction and real estate development. The company unites business units for extraction and processing of aggregates, production and transportation of building materials, construction upon projects of leading Russian and foreign architects – from mass-market to elite residential properties. LSR Group's main operations are located in St. Petersburg, Leningrad region, Moscow, Moscow region, Yekaterinburg and Ural region. As of 31 December 2012 (according to Cushman & Wakefield Russia), the net sellable area of the projects in LSR Group’s real estate portfolio is equal to 8.7m m2 with the market value of RUB 120bn. In 2012, the sales revenue of LSR Group amounted to RUB 61,122m (IFRS) LSR Group is a public company, with its GDRs traded on the London Stock Exchange and its ordinary shares traded on MICEX-RTS.

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