How does the battery factory in Beloozersk. Reporting Valeria Tsapkova
The first impression of the plant – what is he small compared to the informational noise that was raised around it.
Involuntarily recalled BEMZ: beloozerskiy the whole plant would fit inside one of the shops. On the second floor, in the Director's office, full of peple — just arrived from Brest, there are representatives of the local press and even the head of the local Executive Committee, in anticipation of the arrival of the television drinking tea and stare at the wall. One large map of Europe, with notes in English and stuck flags. One of them in Istanbul.
— Sergey Stepanovich, what do you have with Turkey? — be careful not to have suspected the scouting of commercial confidentiality, I asked the Director of the enterprise Sergey Ohrimchuk.
Is there anything we do not sell, there is a similar trade — openly, but somewhat evasively, he says. Then admitted in conversation periodically to the plant guests arrive to explore and experience.
When approached TV crews, journalists launched a demo video on the screen and scrolled the slides depicting the history of the company. Actually, it is on the site of the plant, but note the date in the memory, when he started working — 2013. Therefore, before industrial accumulators with the purpose of smelting lead in Belarus no one did. And where are the old batteries in that time?
Yes, lead before the people passed. You can imagine how in ancient times occursLa "quiet hunt" for his prey: the battle axe to hit a plastic box, to dig three pounds of plates, and six pounds of lead paste with the electrolyte in the ditch... the fact that the lead of this paste can only be extracted industrially. It may seem a paradox, but the construction of the plant in Belaazyorsk for disposal of batteries contributed to the purification of our Belarusian expanse of lead compounds.
Mask up and to the shops
"Please cameras not to take with them, — said the Director. — Photos of what is in the shops, we will provide you with".
Journalists have worried as, if you have nothing to hide, why not give a shoot? Some cringed.
The first thing that showed — room, through which the shop workers fall. It is small, wash basins and instructions on the walls. On one of the walls of the so-called "lockers" where workers put their personal belongings. Counted about 50 cells with the names. So little? The Director later reported that directly in production in one shift working five people and only four shifts per day. The total number of employees at the plant — over a hundred people.
In the shops really deserted, remembered again the Brest Electromechanical long time — that's where life flourished. Now somehow it seems that it was one of the factors that killed the plant: more people than needed for production. And the "trailer" came another thought: investors are now demanding to create jobs, and what ;those industries where a lot of people don't need?
It was an interesting workshop, where do the old batteries. The conveyor belt one by one tighten them in a large aggregate to crushing. First sailed in the depth of a standard battery to the car, and then he heard a crunch of steel jaws. Then crawled over large, with a truck. And again, the crunch...
Next was a workshop, where in a rotary kiln occurs smelting of lead bullion. Then showed the shop refining and more — shop casting. And the shop sending the consumer — ready racks of lead plates. I tried to lift one.
The most interesting feature seemed room for meetings: all the walls were hung with plastic tablet with working figures, plans, tasks — here's where to get a camera! It is clear why outsiders are banned to take pictures. But a few minutes of being in the hall, I realized something.
— So you put the lead on export? — said the Director of the plant.
Yes.
Formal statistics
After returning to Brest on the website of Belstat. Good luck — just posted the statistics of exports and imports for 2016-2017, six digits code of foreign economic activity, at the beginning of the week they were not on the website.
Find code 7801 is "unwrought lead," sold 10 tons at $ 24 million, mostly in Poland and the UK. Just the same as the annual lead production enterprise.
Along the way, look that there is generally svintsovym batteries. As expected, last year's imports, compared with the year 2016, increased. Code 850710 — "lead-acid accumulators used for starting piston engines" imported 1 million units at $ 50 million. Largest supplier of Poland. However, someone in Belarus tries well, and exports, nearly 600 thousand sold, mostly in Russia.
Remember, the Director said that the price of lead is dictated by a metal exchange. Looked and there and there, in London? It turned out that the lead becomes more expensive for the second year in a row. Almost 2.5 thousand dollars per ton. And then I decided to count other people's incomes. The car market in Brest battery can be bought for 120 rubles, $ 60. According to customs statistics, from Poland they imported for $ 45. Ten pounds of lead and other materials pulled about 25-30 dollars. The rest of the price — work.
If judged from the point of view of economic interests of the state, would be more profitable this not lead to take out, and turn in the final product. Statistics are in the public domain — count in the amount of tens of millions of dollars of foreign exchange earnings annually.
Two days earlier the popular website "Habrahabr" was caught saying Elon musk: "what made the rocket? Of aerospace aluminum alloys, titanium, copper and carbon fiber. Then I asked what the cost of those materials on the commodity market was that the cost of materials accounts for about two percent of the typical cost of the rocket".
Elon Musk us, of course, is not a decree, but his words make you think about what raw materials would be wasteful to leave the country, OBRabode it to the final product — that will make the country stronger.
Where it goes waste?
After the tour Director answered the journalists ' questions.
— Where do you keep waste of the first and second class?
We accumulate them up to the permitted level and sent to the companies that have licences for their disposal, and pay money for every ton shipped. The first class is the remnants of the electrolyte, the second we have. Third — lead ash, we signed the contract on processing of fly ash lead with "Compromstroy".
Explain that this enterprise in the Vitebsk region, which for many years engaged in processing of wastes from electroplating and other metals.
— Tell us how a lack of aspiration?
In order to explain how the clean air, Sergey Ohrimchuk took the marker and started drawing on a large sheet scheme:
— First, we are having a pre-Paleokastro, then paleological, and after a fabric bag filter. Aspiration system made by the French and German firms. Startup and operation of the rotary furnace are impossible without the work of scrubbers, that is, the inclusion of the aspiration system is programmed automatically.
To the question, there are expensive treatment facilities, the Director said that about 30 percent of the cost of all the equipment. About the salary at the company he said that the average — more than a thousand rubles, wanting to get enough. When asked when Belarus will lead less to export, and batteries import less, Sergey Ogremon said: "When you build a factory full cycle."
Valery HOE