Ulyanovsk, Russia-The wood-plastic composites pilot production plant in Ulyanovsk, Russia will produce pellets containing hard plastics designed for the production of furniture components and other composite wood products. Higher strength, elasticity and moisture resistance, UV stability and corrosion resistance: packaging, construction and furniture components, and elements of building templates

GS Group Investment and Industrial Holding Company launched a wood-plastic composite (WPC) pilot production plant-GS Composite in Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation. This plant is the first in Russia to apply the unique technology of adding hard plastic to produce wood-plastic pellets. The flagship products of GS Composite are pelletized wood-plastic composite materials and finished products made by extrusion and injection. The output of WPC pellets is 500 kg/h; the pilot production capacity can reach 2,150 tons of finished products per year. The total investment in the project is about 200 million rubles. Wood-plastic composites contain polymers, usually soft plastics (polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride) and wood fillers. The GS Composite plant will be the first plant in Russia to apply technology to produce a composite compound containing a large amount of hard plastic-polyethylene terephthalate (PET). WPC pellets using hard plastics are designed to produce finished products with higher strength, elasticity and moisture resistance, UV stability and corrosion resistance: packaging, building and furniture components, and elements of building templates. The innovative production technology was developed in the internal research and technology laboratory of the GS Group of the AN Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (IPCE RAS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. GS Composite will use sawdust from a local woodworking company as its wood raw material. In the future, it plans to recycle waste from the Sudoma sawmill, which is part of the Dedovichi production facility complex developed by GS Group in the Pskov region for further processing of wood. , Russia. The plant will also use recyclable materials from PET to make plastics on the production line. Today, the GS Composite production area includes two fully automated production sites with an area of ​​1,150 and 1,050 square meters respectively. Designed and equipped in accordance with international standards. According to the test results of the unique method of PET modified wood-plastic pellet production, GS Group will decide to start a large-scale strategic project-the full-cycle production of wood-plastic composite materials. After the implementation of the project, the overall output of WPC pellets will increase to 20,000 tons/year. GS Group is one of Russia's leading private diversified investment and industrial holding companies. The business is based on the use of in-house high technology to manufacture high value-added products. The holding company's decision to enter the wood-plastic market is related to the consistently implemented business diversification strategy and the search for new promising industries. According to experts, the annual output of the Russian wood-plastic composite material market is about 20,000 tons; more than 40% of the products are imported. In addition, the market is growing at an annual rate of 8-9%. Therefore, by 2020, the annual consumption of wood plastic in Russia will exceed 30,000 tons. In view of the potential of the project, GS Composite products will be able to satisfy a large part of the domestic WPC market, almost completely eliminating the industry’s dependence on imports. GS Group is an international investment and industrial holding company that uses its high-tech operations in telecommunications and innovation. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia. The main activities are: microelectronics development and production, electronic development and full-cycle production, software product design and integration, nanomaterials research and development and production, venture project investment, innovation cluster Technopolis GS development, wood deep processing, media content production and management, full service advertise.  

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Bill's background includes more than 10 years of experience in printing manufacturing management, followed by more than 30 years of industrial manufacturing business reports in the forest products industry, including printing and packaging magazines of American Printing Company (thematic editor) and Graphic Arts Monthly (editor); and WoodworkingNetwork .com's secondary wood manufacturing.

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In addition to his job as a reporter, Bill also supports efforts to expand and improve educational opportunities in the manufacturing industry, including 10 years in the Printing and Graphics Scholarship Foundation; six years in WoodLinks in the United States; and currently serving on the Board of Education of the Woodworking Professional League. He also supports the Greater Western Township Training Cooperative Woodworking Program, which has trained more than 950 adults in industrial wood manufacturing occupations. 

Bill is a volunteer at the Foinse Research Station, a biological field station that straddles the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. It is one of more than 200 members of the biological field station organization.

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