The Krasny May factory glass museum is located in the village of Krasnomaysky, not far from Vyshny Volochok, Tver region. The museum was founded in 1968. Products are presented here late XIX- beginning of the 20th century. All exhibits amaze with their richness of color and different ways processing and decoration.

Particularly noteworthy are the multi-colored kerosene lamps with light shades (Bolotin's lamp). The plant itself has existed since 1859. It was founded as a chemical company by the Moscow titular councilor Samarin. But Samarin did not have enough funds to further development production and the plant was purchased by the Vyshnevolotsk merchant of the II guild Andrei Vasilyevich Bolotin. In 1873, the owners of the plant - the merchants of Bolotina - built the first furnace, which produced glassware: tableware, confectionery, lampshades. In the same year, an experienced glassmaker - Vasily Alekseevich Vekshin - came to the plant - the owner of the secret of preparing a charge for melting colored glass. And for the first time in Russia, they began to brew at the Bolotinsky plant colored glass with a variety of colors. In 1920, the plant was nationalized and it became state property. On May 1, 1923, a meeting of workers and employees of the plant was held, at which it was decided to rename the plant into the “Red May” plant. Since that time, the plant began to expand, and new glass melting furnaces began to be built. In the years Patriotic War(1942-1945) in large quantities The plant produced technical glass for the needs of the Navy and aviation; semaphore and traffic light lenses, lamp glass, and battery vessels were manufactured. In the 50-60s, cutting glass products with gold, enamel, chandelier, and silicate paints became widespread at the plant. Products made from two- or three-layer glass were also produced. But Krasnomaysk is especially famous for its sulfide glass, which is not without reason called the “Russian miracle” for its inexhaustible richness of color. And it is also called so for its exceptional property of changing color depending on the temperature and duration of processing, which gives the mass product a unique uniqueness. This material was mastered by the plant in 1959, “Red May” was, in essence, the only enterprise not only in our country, but throughout the world, where sulfide glass was established as an indispensable glass in the plant’s assortment. The museum's exposition is very rich - about 4,000 exhibits. In addition to samples of mass-produced products, the museum presents unique creative works made from rare and unusual species materials. It is worth mentioning the ruby ​​glass presented in the museum, from which the Kremlin stars are made. In addition, the plant produced a star installed in Buzludzha (Bulgaria). The museum is open to visitors on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; entry costs 30 rubles. In 2002, glass melting furnaces were stopped at the plant. Even with a planned cold repair of the furnace, draining the glass and starting the furnace next after the repair is a long and expensive process, and so, if you stop without hope for the future, there is almost no chance of the next start. But, apparently, no one was going to restore production. Furnaces with frozen glass were simply broken. Now the entire territory of the plant is partly ruined, partly is slowly deteriorating.

Just beyond Vyshny Volochok during the era of Brezhnev's stagnation, right on the side of the road, you could buy all kinds of glasses, vases and glasses, which during times of general shortages could not be found in a regular store. All this stuff was sold under the counter by workers of the Krasny May glass factory, located two kilometers to the left of the highway on the banks of the Shlina River.

The once largest plant was founded in 1859 by titular councilor Samarin. True, at that time it was an ordinary chemical plant producing lamp oil, vitriol, ammonia and vodka. Samarin did not have enough funds to develop production and then he sold the production to the Vyshnevolotsk merchant of the second guild, Alexander Vasilyevich Bolotin. It was he who built the first glass furnace here and lured to him the famous master Vasily Vekshin, who knew the secret of making a batch for melting colored glass. Having thus become the owner of, as they would now say, insider information, Bolotin began to produce very elegant little things - lamps, vases, decanters. At art and industrial exhibitions in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod they have received gold and silver medals more than once. Bolotin opened his own branded stores in both capitals, and exported some of his products to the East - to Persia and the Ottoman Empire.

In 1920, the plant was nationalized and renamed “Red May”. Before the war, it mainly produced industrial glass: traffic light lenses, battery vessels, lamp glass. In the summer of 1945, the plant received a government order to produce special three-layer ruby ​​glass for the Kremlin stars. The previous ones, made of Donetsk glass, installed in 1937, required replacement. The result of the work of Krasnomaysk masters can now be seen by everyone. To make just one Kremlin star they needed 32 tons of high-quality Lyubertsy sand, 3 tons of zinc muffle white, 16 tons of soda ash, 1.5 tons of boric acid and 1.5 tons of potassium nitrate.

Since the late 50s, “Red May” was the only plant in the world where unique sulfa glass was brewed. With the help of various additives, it could take on up to 18 color shades - from light yellow to almost black. In this case, the color of the glass changed depending on the temperature and processing time. The plant's products were truly unique. It was exported to Europe and America, where products made from sulfa glass were called the “Russian miracle.”

Now all these glass items can only be seen in the factory museum or in antique shops. They are expensive because the Krasny May plant is closed, the equipment has been sold, and the buildings are empty. Two or three masters, they say, still remain.

Parts were the city and the region. Now let's look at the two museums of Vyshny Volochok. This is a local history museum, introducing the past of the city, its unique canals and iconic people, and a real Glass Fairy Tale or Colored Dream - a glass museum of the former Red May plant, several times even producing ruby ​​glass for the stars of the Kremlin towers on government orders.

1. Glass production near Vyshny Volochok appeared in the second half of the 19th century, when a local merchant bought a chemical plant and based it on the production of tableware, lampshades and kerosene lamps

2. A little later, the production of colored glass appeared, when an experienced glassmaker came to the plant, secret knower technologies

3. The plant’s products received high awards at pre-revolutionary exhibitions

8. And the little animals, ahah, look what they are!

11. After the revolution, the plant was nationalized, renamed "Red May", expanded and modernized production. Lamp glass, window glass, dishes, lamps for the subway - all this was made here. High-quality color products, which, as in tsarist times, occupied high places at international exhibitions, were nicknamed the “Russian miracle”

12. In the 1940s and 1970s, the plant carried out probably the most important task in its history - a government order for the production of ruby ​​glass for the Kremlin stars. Here are his pieces

Having visited this museum, I was already dreaming of how I would get to the production site and make a report, but fate did not. In 2001, the Red May glass factory was closed. Let’s face it, a huge era has passed and a whole page has been torn out of the book on the history of our country, but the memory remains. Just for the sake of this museum, to visit here again, I would return to Vyshny in the summer on a Mosturflot cruise or in winter as part of bus tours, the so-called “winter cruises” of this company.
It would seem that there has been no plant for almost 17 years, but a residue from this fact still remains inside.

13. And this is already Museum of Local Lore Vyshny Volochok. To be honest, I don’t really like these, but I didn’t regret visiting Vyshnevolotsky. It is already more than 80 years old, but the exhibitions do not smell like a layer of museum dust and you don’t need to bring a pillow with you to sleep out of boredom. Not so long ago everything here was also reconstructed.

Local guides are true professionals in their field, enthusiasts, ready to talk for hours about every detail, about every exhibit as if it were about a person dear to them personally and an old friend. No memorized phrases from guidebooks, no “tell me and finish quickly.” So I highly recommend the museum to everyone!

14. In the Petrovsky Hall you can not only learn about the activities of the Tsar, who made the Vyshnevolotsk waterway truly navigable (thus connecting the Baltic and the Caspian Sea and opening up many new opportunities for the development of Russia with the help of Vyshnevolotsk), but also see cannons raised from the bottom of the canals , cannonballs, hooks - witnesses of that era

17. The Dutch who built canals for Peter in Vyshny Volochek, screwed up. They were used to working with the sea and did not take into account the peculiarities of our area. In the summer, lakes and rivers became shallow, canals became dehydrated, traffic along the canals stopped and famine set in in the cities.

The Novgorod merchant M.I. Serdyukov undertook to correct the situation and improve the waterway. He, a self-taught hydraulic engineer, devoted a third of a century to the water system of Vyshny Volochok. Locks, beyslots, the Tsninsky Canal, the reservoir - all these are the results of his labors

18. Model of the Tsninsky lock, built by Serdyukov

19. Plan of hydraulic structures in Vyshny Volochyok, presented by Serdyukov to Emperor Peter

20. And modern map.
After visiting the museum, I wanted to visit all the buildings in the summer, including those almost destroyed by time and man, to see everything in person and get to know in more detail the water artery that was once very important for Russia

21. Model of Vyshny Volochok from the time of Peter the Great. Now, if museums have models, that’s very cool)

22. Look how handsome he is!
Frigate "Pallada". Its first captain was Nakhimov. Subsequently, the frigate visited many voyages, including Japan. With the beginning Crimean War due to fear of capture by the British, it was sunk.
IN different years Vyshnevolotsk and Tver nobles served on it

23. The canals of Vyshny Volochok were the most important freight routes. Here is a model of a cargo barque, made according to a 19th century drawing. How do you like the fact that the barge lifted up to 130 tons of cargo? I didn't believe it at first)

In Vyshny, in connection with the transition from lifting to rafting, the vessels were re-equipped. The rudders and masts were removed, platforms were set up, on which stood people operating 4 huge oars - potes. A pilot and 10 workers were placed on each barge

24. Remember in the first part there was a chapel on the site of the 18th century Kazan Cathedral, where Catherine’s decree was read, granting Vyshny Volochok the status of a city? This is what this cathedral was like, blown up in the 1930s

One of the places that you should definitely visit when arriving in Vyshny Volochyok is the glass museum of the Krasny May factory. The same factory, whose products were known far beyond the borders of our country and where the ruby ​​stars were made, which to this day adorn the five towers of the Moscow Kremlin.

I already wrote about the factory museum about two years ago in the article “Red May: from ruby ​​to ruins.” The museum was then located in a dilapidated, unheated building with a leaking roof on the territory of the plant, the buildings of which by that time had been in ruins for more than ten years. A little more - and it seemed that the unique collection would disappear forever after the glass melting furnaces. Fortunately, this did not happen. In August of this year, the updated museum opened at the address: M. Magomaev Street (formerly Vagzhanova), 17.

The building where it is located, like the museum itself, also has a complicated history. They began to build it back in the 80s of the last century for a new automatic telephone exchange (automatic telephone exchange), but then abandoned it - in an era of change there was no time for the development of telecommunications. For more than 20 years, the concrete box was empty, being used as, excuse me, a latrine for the sellers of the nearby mini-market. This continued until the site on which the long-term construction stood was purchased. The building was brought to life; the Pyaterochka supermarket was located on the ground floor, and the glass museum was located on the second. The museum is not state-owned, it is a private collection of the owner of the building, Vladimir Koloshva.

The building where the museum is located

Decorative set "Big Holiday"

"Red May" When you hear these two words, the first thing that comes to mind is the five ruby ​​stars on the Spasskaya, Nikolskaya, Borovitskaya, Troitskaya and Vodovzvodnaya towers of the main Kremlin of Russia. On one of the museum’s stands you can see a fragment of the same four-layer glass from which the tops of the Kremlin towers are made. It's a pity - you can't pick it up to determine its mass. Stars with a ray span of 3 to 3.75 meters each weigh about a ton, so it is interesting how heavy a triangular piece with an area of ​​approximately 20-25 square centimeters will be.

On the right are fragments of four-layer glass for the Kremlin stars

In total, the hall displays more than four thousand exhibits - much more than was in the old building. The first thing that greets visitors is something without which there would be no stars, or even a simple cut glass - a glass furnace. More precisely, its layout and glassblower’s working tools. The museum guide can tell you in detail about the operating principle of the furnace and the temperature at which the glass mass is melted. Having familiarized ourselves with this, let’s move on directly to viewing the exhibition.

Napkin vases

In any museum, exhibits are usually located in chronological order their birth. Here and here in first three The shelves display a collection of products manufactured at the plant back in the 19th century, when it was not yet “Red May”, but the Klyuchinsky plant of the merchant and industrialist Bolotin. Crystal dishes, church utensils, kerosene lamps. “It was these lamps, topped with thin light lampshades, that were awarded a gold medal at the All-Russian Art and Industrial Exhibition in Moscow in 1882,” the Krasnomaisky Glazier newspaper wrote in 1988. These were the first shoots of the future glory of local glassmakers. Another unique item of that time that is sure to attract attention is a jug with six compartments inside, separated by partitions. Moreover, these departments are completely isolated from each other and do not communicate with each other. The surname of the master who made this decanter is known - Arefiev. After him, no one else was able to create anything like this.

Miracle decanter by master Arefiev

“Honored Artist of the RSFSR V.Ya. Shevchenko combined extraordinary talent, broad professional erudition and a desire for experiment and discovery. He knew how to give sulfide glass a unique light-plastic interpretation, and discovered in the material the ability for powerful, even elemental expressiveness.” . This is an information certificate about Viktor Shevchenko (1935 - 2011) - a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, who worked at the Red May plant as a senior artist since 1975, and before that at the Dyatkovo Crystal Factory. Decorative panels, lamps and other works by Shevchenko can be found in the Moscow Art Theater and the Central House of Artists. Also, his products were awarded first prize at the Quadriennale (an exhibition held once every four years - author's note) applied arts socialist countries in Erfurt (GDR) in 1974 and 1978. Indeed, is it possible to indifferently pass by such compositions of handmade (handmade, piece) work as “Emerald Surface”, “Tumbleweeds”, “Trees to Grow”, or “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”? A broken piece of one of the “helmets” of the Lay is the result of careless handling; the work was in this form in the old museum.

Collection of works by Viktor Shevchenko

"Tumbleweed"

On the left - “Trees to Grow” and “Emerald Surface”

"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"

“Konoplev’s works made of colored and sulfide glass are distinguished by intricate stucco decoration - a free cascade of sparkling flows as if the pliable glass has not yet cooled down. Decorative vases “Sea Surf”, “Waterfall”, “Birch Trees”, “Hot Snow” are marked by that special integrity of the decorative image characteristic of thickened glass, when the material, shape and color are fused by the skillful hand of the artist into an indissoluble unity.”. Sergei Konoplev is a hereditary glassmaker, his grandfather, about whom legends were made, worked for the Bolotins. Konoplyov himself started as a blower at a factory, and later, after graduating from the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial School (now the Moscow State Art and Industrial Academy named after S. G. Stroganov), he became an artist. Among the author’s other works with romantic titles are “ Golden autumn", "Escapes", "Russian patterns".

Collection of Sergei Konoplev

"Tidal bore"

"Twilight"

"Russian patterns"

"Gold autumn"

Sulfide (sulfide-zinc) glass, obtained by adding iron oxide and zinc sulfide to the glass mass, with which Shevchenko, Konoplev and other Vyshnevolotsk artists worked, along with crystal and ruby, was one of the calling cards of the plant. Not easy business card, “Red May” became perhaps the only enterprise in the world where sulfide glass was used as an indispensable attribute of the factory assortment. For the rich color scheme depending on the processing conditions, it was called the Russian miracle, which was confirmed by many years of practice. However, all these products are unique, exhibition items. No less interesting are the products that were produced en masse - decanters, tableware, lampshades, electric souvenirs stylized as Bolotino “kerosene stoves”.

The museum’s collection also includes gift items from “Red May”. More precisely, their smaller copies. For example, a copy of a crystal vase given to the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Gagarin. I think it’s not that difficult to guess what the vase is called. That's right, "Stars". Or decorative composition“Peace” (author - Lyudmila Kuchinskaya), made for the next congress of the CPSU. And here is a floor lamp made of openwork metal framed with crystal, reminiscent of a candlestick. Exactly the same, as the guide assures, only in larger sizes, was presented to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on his 70th birthday.

On the right - "Stars"

The glass factory "RED MAY" is located on the banks of the Shlina River. One of the largest in the country, it was founded in 1859 as a chemical enterprise by Moscow titular councilor Samarin.

HISTORY OF THE GLASS FACTORY “RED MAY”

Glass factory"RED MAY" is located on the banks of the Shlina River. One of the largest in the country, it was founded in 1859 as a chemical enterprise by Moscow titular councilor Samarin. Products such as vitriol, oil of vitriol, lamp oil, ammonia, strong vodka and other various acids were produced. But Samarin did not have enough funds for further development of production and the plant was purchased by the Vyshnevolotsk merchant of the II guild, Andrei Vasilyevich Bolotin. In 1873, the owners of the plant - the merchants of Bolotina - built the first furnace, which produced glassware: tableware, confectionery, lampshades. In the same year, an experienced glassmaker - Vasily Alekseevich Vekshin - came to the plant - the owner of the secret of preparing a charge for melting colored glass. And for the first time in Russia, the Bolotinsky plant began to produce colored glass with a variety of colors. Already in 1882 and 1886, the plant’s new products, “absolutely remarkable in their diversity and unexpected grace” (as assessed by the once famous glass scientist A.K. Krupsky), were awarded two gold and two silver medals All-Russian art and industrial exhibitions in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod for the rich color range and careful processing. In 1920, the plant was nationalized and it became state property. On May 1, 1923, a meeting of workers and employees of the plant was held, at which it was decided to rename the plant into the “RED MAY” plant. From that time on, the plant began to expand, and new glass melting furnaces began to be built.

During the Patriotic War (1942-1945), the plant produced large quantities of technical glass for the needs of the Navy and aviation; semaphore and traffic light lenses, lamp glass, and battery vessels were manufactured. The 40s were a very important period in the history of the plant, when the first government order for the production of ruby ​​glass for Kremlin stars was honorably fulfilled. In 1946, the task was completed successfully. In the same year, the plant was awarded the Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the People's Commissariat of Light Industry for eternal storage. During the war years, the factory team took first place 23 times in the All-Union Socialist Competition among light industry enterprises with the presentation of the Challenge Red Banner. The plant was awarded second place seven times.

In the 50-60s, cutting glass products with gold, enamel, chandelier, and silicate paints became widespread at the plant. Products made from two- or three-layer glass were also produced. But Krasnomaysk is especially famous for its sulfide glass, which is not without reason called the “Russian miracle” for its inexhaustible richness of color. And it is also called so for its exceptional property of changing color depending on the temperature and duration of processing, which gives the mass product a unique uniqueness. This material was mastered by the plant in 1959, “RED MAY” was, in essence, the only enterprise not only in our country, but throughout the world, where sulfide glass was established as an indispensable glass in the plant’s assortment.

The masters of “Red May” preserve and continue centuries-old tradition working with colored glass, fluent in the full range of material processing techniques. The production of colored glass has attracted the attention of many well-known glass artists, who perform their works conceived in color at Red May.

St. Petersburg artists worked at the plant: Honored Artist of the RSFSR B.A. Smirnov and D.N. Deemyashkevich, Muscovites L.A. Fomina, T.P. Sazhin, L.I. Savelyeva, V.A. Filatov, Honored Artists of the RSFSR G.A. Antonova, A.Ya. Stepanova, S.G. Ryazanova, Estonian E.O. Jõgi and artists from other republics.

The company produced vases, souvenirs, dishes, decorative works, lamps, architectural and construction glass. The basis of the factory assortment consists of new samples created in the art laboratory of the factory, where artists whose names are known in glass art worked: Honored Artists of the RSFSR A.M. Silko, S.M. Beskinskaya, V.Ya. Shevchenko, L.A. Kuchinskaya, artists S.A. Konoplev, V.G. Khrolov, A.I. Novikov, K.N. Litvin, E.Yu. Esikova.

New products of artists and mass production of the plant were demonstrated at all-Union and international exhibitions and fairs.

Thus, the history of the enterprise goes back more than 140 years.

DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

Glass factory "RED MAY", one of the oldest factories in the industry, was founded in 1859. The plant is a city-forming enterprise for a village with a population of 7,000 residents, most of whom worked at the plant. The company is known for producing ruby ​​stars for the Moscow Kremlin. The plant produced a wide range of products. It has an area of ​​24 hectares, a railway line, a gas pipeline, other necessary communications and infrastructure elements.

Over the past ten years, the plant has gone through difficult processes and in 2001 experienced a financial crisis. In 2002, the old enterprise was restructured and assets were prepared for investment projects. A new legal entity, LLC “Glass Factory “KRASNY MAY”, has been organized, which has the necessary production facilities and land plots on the right of ownership.

The following projects are currently being considered for implementation:

1. Organization of production of glass containers. Several options were considered:

o Organization of production of glass containers with a capacity of 250 million standard containers per year with the construction of a new compound workshop. The volume of investment is 25 million Euro.

o Organization of production of glass and exclusive containers and electrical glass using the blow-press method on the basis of 3-6-section glass-forming machines from Bottero (Italy). The volume of investments is 11 million Euros.

o A number of other options differing in power, capital investment and equipment placement.

2. Increasing the production of glass containers to 500 million standard containers per year with the construction of a new container shop. The volume of investment is 20 million Euros.

3. Production of architectural and construction glass (patterned, colored, reinforced) with a capacity of up to 200 thousand square meters per month. The volume of investments is 12.5 million Euros.

4. Production of electrical glass (shades, lamps). Investment volume – 1 million Euro.

5. Production of high-quality tableware, souvenirs and artistic products from plain and colored glass, crystal.

The choice of projects is mainly due to the historical orientation of the plant to produce this range of products. The validity of working with the packaging sector is confirmed by separate marketing studies.

The success of the projects is due to the favorable economic and geographical position of the RED MAY glass plant between the two main markets of the country - Moscow and St. Petersburg (the plant is located almost on the federal highway), the availability of production space, fixed assets, infrastructure and communications, as well as required production personnel.

The projects are fully provided with raw materials for production, with the main types of raw materials being quartz sand and dolomite. large quantities are available in deposits in Central Russia, and the plant receives sand directly from the Tver region. The explored reserves of natural raw materials for glass container production will be enough for another 100-200 years of industry operation. Employees of the RED MAY glass factory already have the necessary connections and experience working with suppliers of raw materials for glass production.

By June 2002, technical work was carried out to select equipment suppliers, potential designers and contractors for all types of work.

The depth of project development is at at different levels. So, for the first three projects, business plans are fully prepared, for the rest, enlarged economic calculations have been carried out. For container projects and the project for the production of architectural and construction glass, pre-design proposals and feasibility studies were received from the industry design institute GIPROSTEKLO (St. Petersburg), NPC Steklogaz. Negotiations were also held and potential suppliers and contractors were selected.

Negotiations have been held with potential consumers of the products on all projects; contracts for the supply of products in 2003-2004 have already been concluded for container projects.

The main issue for launching these projects remains the issue of financing. It can be solved taking into account the possibility of implementing projects both within one legal entity, as well as the separation of individual projects into separate legal entities.

TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS.

The first limitation is related to the capacity and condition of the existing compound (raw materials) workshop. With minor modernization, the existing workshop can produce up to 250-300 tons of charge (raw materials) per day. When considering the above projects comprehensively, it is necessary to take into account the possibility of supplying all production facilities with raw materials at the same time.

Using the existing compound workshop, we can talk about the operation of production with a total consumption of charge of 250-300 tons.

For large container production, it is necessary to build a new compound workshop, which is taken into account in the relevant investment project. The new compound workshop will be able to provide production volumes of 300-600 tons of charge per day, with the possibility of increasing its capacity with minor capital investments to 800-1000 tons per day. This creates the opportunity, given favorable market conditions, to increase production volumes, for example, packaging, by 3-4 times, by building a new production workshop on the existing plant territory. This option development was reviewed and linked to the territory by the GIPRISTEKLO Institute.

The second limitation concerns the simultaneous implementation of projects, since the most successful solution for some of them fits into the same production building.

For all other issues, the plant has sufficient infrastructure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS.

CONTAINER PROJECTS.

Today in Russia there is a favorable situation for investment in the production of food glass containers. The shortage of glass containers arose due to the lag in the pace of development of domestic glass container production from the growth rate of demand from Russian food industry enterprises, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.

The differences in the proposed projects boil down to differences in production volumes and the possibility of implementing the second project with significantly lower investments and without capital investments in the construction of new production buildings and structures, a new compound workshop.

At the first stage, according to the recommendations of independent experts and plant specialists, the most preferable project for implementation is to organize production with a capacity of 250 million standard containers per year. This option will allow us to create the maximum possible container production with existing resources with the ability to produce a wide range of products in the shortest possible time (12-14 months from the start of financing).

This project can be implemented in the building of workshop No. 5.

Full business plans of these projects are available for review and consideration.

PRODUCTION OF ARCHITECTURAL AND CONSTRUCTION GLASS.

At the moment, the production of colored patterned glass and reinforced glass in Russia is practically non-existent. These types of products enter the country's market from Belarus and European countries. In addition to the difference in the cost of energy, raw materials and labor, pricing is also affected by the cost of delivery.

The purpose of the implementation of this project is the creation of production for the production of products with a price-quality characteristic that exceeds all existing offers on the market.

Glass factory RED MAY produced this type products for 30 years. The last sales before stopping this production due to moral and physical wear and tear were carried out in the spring of 2002.

As part of the project, the plant will be able to produce glass of all required sizes with a width of up to 1800 mm and a thickness from 2 to 15 mm.

This project can be implemented in the building of workshop No. 5 or in the building of workshop No. 4.

For production, it is necessary to build a new glass melting furnace with the ability to melt colored glass and install a line based on a rolling machine. The German company RUREX was chosen to supply the rolling machine. The general contractor and designer is the German company HORN.

PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICAL GLASS.

The RED MAY glass factory produced up to 80% of electrical glass in the USSR. Last years the assortment consisted of milk-on-glass glass for industrial and domestic use.

As part of the new project, negotiations were held with the Turkish company Adachi on cooperation in the production and sale of lampshades using Turkish technology with a capacity of 500,000 - 1,000,000 pieces per month while maintaining the production of the plant’s usual range.

Thus, the project is supported by the sale of products and is of an import-substituting nature.

This production is planned to be fully organized in the existing building of the educational and production building (workshop No. 6). The production will consist of two glass melting furnaces of 10 and 2 tons, glass matting and glass decoration areas.

DIFFERENT TABLEWARE, ART GLASS AND SOUVENIRS.

This direction of production is the main historical one for the plant. The factory's glass museum clearly shows the capabilities and achievements of this production. Many artists' works are included in catalogs and stored in state museums countries.

At the first stage, within the framework of this project, it is planned to establish the production of tableware (glasses, stemware, salad bowls, candy bowls, vases) using a mechanized method based on a press, blow molding method, and centrifugal molding method.

The market strategy comes down to the production of accessible and cheap, and at the same time, practical and high-quality products for the least affluent and middle segments of consumers. The sales problem will be solved through widespread distribution and import substitution, in particular, Turkish goods.

Currently, this project is in the stage of development and selection of equipment for production, preparation of a business plan.

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