Rockwool Alabuga completes plant construction in Alabuga

Thermal insulating products will be manufactured here.

Rockwool Alabuga has completed the construction of one of the biggest mineral wool product plants in Europe in the Alabuga special economic zone, the zone’s press service has said. The start of production is scheduled for March 2012.

The plant’s first stone was laid in the summer of 2008 but the crisis altered the agenda, postponing the launch time to several years later. The investment and capacity estimates changed as well. The launch-time anticipated capacity is 110 htousand tonnes of products a year.

The plant is to manufacture thermal insulators from rock wool, to warm roofs, facades, floors and spans, as well as fireproof and soundproof slabs.

The plant is Rockwool’s third Russia-based production facility that is expected to create over 200 jobs.