The Sursk Technical Felt Factory – a leading Russian manufacturer of technical fabrics – is a regular participant of the "INTERFABRIC" exhibition, where it presents innovative products and top samples of its production each season. The company's priorities include promptly responding to market demands and developing new product lines, which is particularly vital given the current external economic conditions that have disrupted established cooperative ties and highlighted the need to replace imported goods with domestically produced alternatives. For instance, the company has developed a Russian counterpart to imported aerating fabrics for cement plants. Previously, this market was dominated by materials from European and Chinese companies.
– “Last year, we received a grant from the Innovation Promotion Fund, which allowed us to purchase equipment for producing aerating fabrics," says Alexander Alexandrovich Mukhratov, General Director of the Trading House "SKTS”. These fabrics, previously not manufactured in Russia, are used in pneumatic systems for transporting and storing bulk materials in granular and powdered forms. They are intended for use in air slides, pneumatic loading and unloading systems, storage silos, and transport vehicles such as trucks, railcars, ships, and containers. The material has been tested and is now successfully used at Russian enterprises."
According to Alexander Alexandrovich, participating in the "INTERFABRIC" exhibition provides an opportunity to analyze the market and identify its needs. "New product ideas are born at the exhibition, as feedback from consumers is extremely important," Mukhratov asserts.
Background Information
The Sursk Technical Felt Factory has operated on the foundation of the historic and largest felt factory "Krasny Oktyabr" in the city of Sursk, Penza Region, since 2009. Today, the enterprise ensures a full production cycle of finished goods, quality control, and the development of custom materials. The products are manufactured using both Russian and advanced high-tech foreign equipment.
The main consumers of the factory's products are industrial enterprises in industries such as asbestos cement, metallurgy, chemicals, construction, papermaking, cardboard manufacturing, leatherworking, rubber product production, tire manufacturing, food processing, service sectors, and soft furniture manufacturing. The company's supply geography spans from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, including countries in both near and far abroad.
To produce asbestos cement products and equip sheet-forming machines for asbestos cement production, the factory produces special needle-punched felts, manufactured as continuous looped fabric and delivered as individual items. The factory's products are also widely used in paper and cardboard production. Multi-layered cotton felts are used for drying and pressing sections of papermaking machines and as conveyor belts in the felt industry. For tire manufacturers, the factory produces materials used in the construction of carcasses, breakers, bead wires, and ply layers, as well as interlayers.
