About Kursk Trade

The end of the 1990s. Start up

  1. Opening of the company’s first manufacturing plant of thermal insulating boards under the PENOPLEX® brand. The production site located in the city of Kirishi, Leningrad region.

 

the 2000s. Intensive development: production growth, differentiation of products range and sales territory

  1. Launching of two new production lines at the plant in Kirishi. Automation of the entire technological process of manufacturing of PENOPLEX® XPS boards starting from supplying raw materials to the final packaging of commercial products.
  2. Entry into service of the installation for the synthesis of general-purpose polystyrene under the STYROVIT® brand with a capacity of 50 thousand tones / year.
  3. The further development of production in Kirishi. Launch of two new production lines to produce XPS thermal insulation. The capacity level of PENOPLEX® boards has been reached to 500 thousand m³ / year.

 

the 2005–2007. Placing into operation of the new plants for manufacturing boards in Perm, and then in Novosibirsk and Taganrog. Launch of a new line at the production site in Kirishi.

  1. The waterproofing production made of polymer membrane under the PLASTFOIL® brand has been launched in Kirishi.
  2. Opening of the first plant outside Russian Federation, with a capacity of 350 thousand m3 / year in the city of Kapshagay, Almaty region, Republic of Kazakhstan.

 

the 2010s. Further intensive development

  1. The start of the production of decorative and finishing materials made of polystyrene under the brand PLINTEX®. The production is organized at a company’s plant in Kazakhstan.
  2. Placing into operation of the new plants for the production of PENOPLEX® boards in Khabarovsk, Cheremkhovo (Irkutsk region), Novomoskovsk (Tula region).
  3. Launching of a new production site in the city of Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod region.

 

the 2015-2016. Production growth, expanding export sales.

Launching plant in Novomoskovsk, the fourth in the world production line with a capacity of 550,000 cubic meters of effective thermal insulation per year. Thus, the production site in Novomoskovsk has become the largest XPS plant in Europe with a total production capacity of 1 million cubic meters per year.

Cooperation with the leading DIY retail chains in Lithuania, Georgia, Estonia began.