The initial investment for the launch of the paving slab production line will be 180, 000 rubles. Investments will be paid back within 1 month. The profitability of this business is 100%.
Paving slab production: Documentation
According to the law, no special licenses for the production of paving slabs are required; this product is not subject to mandatory certification. It is only necessary to register as an individual entrepreneur. But for those who want to document the quality of products, you can make a quality certificate. There are certification organizations that will check samples of your tiles according to GOST for frost resistance, strength, compression, water absorption, abrasion, oils. There is such an analysis in different laboratories from 3 to 10 thousand rubles.
Paving slab production: Premise
The location of future production does not matter much in this business. Production can be placed in any warehouse or industrial premises in the industrial zone or outside the city. The area of the production workshop should be at least 70 m2, and it should have a voltage of 380 V. It is also necessary to equip a drying chamber - a room with a temperature of 35-45, with a heated floor, without fans.
If you work only in the warmer months, it is not necessary to rent storage facilities. When working in the winter, you will have to rent a warm warehouse of about the same area. Rent will cost from 15 to 30 thousand rubles per month.
Paving slab production: Equipment
A set of equipment for the production of tiles includes: forming vibration tables, forming vibration tables, plastic molds, mineral additives to concrete, dyes. As a rule, equipment supplier companies also attach tile production technology to it (although in some companies, especially in Moscow, they can separately request from 30 to 70 thousand rubles for the technology).
The cost of a line producing 50 square meters. m tiles per shift is 100 thousand rubles. Raw materials for production are cement, sand, gravel. His entrepreneur buys himself. For a line producing up to 50 m2 of tiles, approximately 1.5 tons of cement and 3 tons of sand and gravel are needed.
Paving slabs production: Personnel
Three people are enough to service a workshop with a productivity of 50 m2 of tiles per day. They knead according to the same recipe, fill out forms, monitor pressing and drying. No special education is required. Salaries of workers - 12-20 thousand rubles per month.
Paving Slabs Production: Sales
Tile sales should begin immediately after production is established, namely according to samples. Samples can be obtained from the company - the supplier of the equipment. It is better for the company to immediately start producing tiles of various shapes in order to attract customers with an assortment. In addition to the tile itself, you can offer additional services for transportation, laying and design project development.
For a start-up company, it is not at all necessary to look for large customers, you can focus on small businesses and private owners who want to tile their yards.
Based on an article by Smirnova Anastasia published in the newspaper Business Petersburg
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