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Construction and the Construction Products Industry:
LEMMINKÄINEN PAVES THE WAY
AT OMSK AIRPORT
Lemminkäinen has carried out several major contracts
in Russia. One of the most recent is the airport at Omsk in
Siberia, where last year it paved the airport with a mass
produced by the Russian main contractor. The company has earlier
experience of several renovation and paving jobs at airports
both in Finland and abroad. For example, the runway at Omsk
airport is 45 metres wide and 2.5 kilometres long. About 50,000
tonnes of mass were used. The hard mineral needed for producing
the asphalt was brought from the Ural mountains by rail.
The airport is important to Omsk and its surrounding region.
Planes travel through it on their way to the South, to Kazakhstan,
and also to Siberia.
Other big asphalt contracts for Lemminkäinen in Russia
in recent times include the paving of the test track for the
Lada car plant at Togliatti, and the big hydro-insulation
and paving contracts for bridges in which it was possible
to utilize the company’s own development of special products.
In 2002 asphalting is under way in St Petersburg, Moscow,
Kaluga, western Siberia and Tjumen. In total, the company
will be producing more than 300,000 tonnes of asphalt in Russia
in 2002.
Isoveri’s new glass wool factory
Lemminkäinen is also expanding Isoveri’s glass
wool factory at Jegorevsk in central Russia, 120 kilometres
from Moscow. The work will be completed in 2003.
The production line’s annual capacity in the first stage
will be 20,000 tonnes. Later a second production line will
be made, taking the overall capacity to 60,000 tonnes a year.
One of the special features of the glass wool factory is
the sample-taking fire-detection system. A sample of the air
is taken continuously from the rooms, and if amounts of exit
gases exceeding the pre-determined limits are noticed, the
system gives the alarm immediately.
Published
2003
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