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1910: Mr. M. Zaklind, the owner of the sawmill in Rechitsa, sold it together with the railroad branch to the landowners, brothers Boris and Vladimir Rick. After the purchase of the sawmill brothers Rick sold their estate Rusaki, and pledged their manor and the sawmill in Soltanovo village with the Russian - Asian Bank and for the gained money they began to construct a nail making plant. The equipment for it -nail making and wire drawing machines - was purchased in Germany. The specialists were invited to construct a new plant, to install the equipment and to operate this equipment. At the same time with the plant construction the living apartments were built for the invited workers as well.
1912, May: the construction of the plant's building was finished, the equipment for wire drawing and nails production was installed. 40 persons were employed at the plant totally, who manufactured up to 30 poods of nails per twenty-four-hours period.
End of 1912: The productivity of the plant came to 40 poods of nails per twenty-four-hours period.
1913: The productivity of the plant achieved 100 poods of nails per twenty-four-hours period.
1914: the Ministry of Defense granted credits to the brothers Rick and new machines for barbed wire production were installed, which was used for obstacles. The plant quickly started the production and delivery of such wire to the front. During the years of the war brothers Rick became rich.
1916: Brothers Rick purchased in the USA the new equipment for the wood screws making shop: head trimming machines, thread rolling machines and presses for manufacture of the wood screw blanks. The suppliers of the equipment were German companies "Kuck" and "Kaiser".
1917: A new two-storied building of the wood screws making shop was built, in which the new equipment was installed. During the Great October socialist revolution the plant was nationalized. One of the brothers Rick stayed to work at the plant as the head engineer. During the years of the civil war and occupation the enterprise was destroyed very much.
1920: the restoration of the plant began and the plant was put into operation in a very short period of time. The enterprise was first renamed to "Proletarskiy" and then to "International" Rechitsa wire and nails making plant.
1935: Based on the Resolution of the Soviet of People's Commissars of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of June, 25, 1935 the plant was restored: the major repairs of the equipment and the replacement of the outdated equipment were carried out; money facilities were granted for the purpose of construction of the block of flats for workers' families. As a result the small production developed into the state enterprise. The capacity of the plant increased and the output of the production was increased as well.
1939: 40000 poods of nails were manufactured. The commodity wire and wood screws were delivered to the consumers as well. The production of the consumer goods was developed.
1943: After Rechitsa had been freed, the restoration of the plant began. During six months of the first after-war year 1000 tons of nails and 100 tons of wood screws were produced by the plant for the country needs.
1959: the plant started the production of fasteners and calibrated chains. In the same year based on the Resolution of the Soviet of People's Commissars of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic "International" Rechitsa wire and nails making plant was renamed to "Rechitskiy metizniy zavod". On November, 12, 1965 the plant was transferred to the Ministry of ferrous metallurgy of the USSR, directly subordinated to "Soyuzmetiz".
1961: Decisive year for the plant. "Rechitskiy metizniy zavod" purchased high-productive cold heading semiautomatic presses. In the following years the plant went through radical reconstruction. New shops were put into operation; tool making shop was expanded; new buildings of the plant's administration, house of culture, plant's canteen were built; the construction of the living apartments was carried out.
End of the 90th: in connection with the entering the world market by the plant, the additional modernization was performed, the equipment of such European producers as "Wafios", "Bilwinco", "Hilgeland" was purchased, new technologies were mastered.
2002: Quality management system for Design and Manufacture of the hardware products as per STB ISO 9001-2001 was put into operation. Delivery program includes more than 85 kinds of nails as per GOST and DIN standards of the diameters 1.2 - 6.0 mm, length 14 - 310 mm; wire of different diameters - low carbon steel wire, wire for reinforcement of reinforced concrete structures, steel welding wire; wood screws of the diameter 2.5 - 6.0 mm, length 10 - 90 mm; screws M3 - M10 with length of 8-70 mm; bolts as per standards and special bolts M6 - M16 with the length 72 - 720 mm; standard and special hexagon nuts M4-M16; standard and special rivets of the diameter 2.5 - 16 mm, length 6 - 100 mm; special axles of the diameter 3 - 10 mm. New technologies for heat treatment of nails made of steel 70, which is produced by BMZ. The packaging of the annealed wire is made in skeins of 5 - 50 kg, the packaging of the products is performed into cardboard tare of 1-5 kg by means of the automatic equipment produced by "Bilwinco" (Denmark), "Altrimex" (Netherlands); the processes of nails polishing and nails rolling by means of flat dies and roller-segment is made with forming of the nails' shank of ring and screw type, the production of nails with the diameter of 7-10 mm and length of up to 310 mm.
2004: Modern Italian nail making machines for the production of calibrated machine nails suitable for welding into coils of 300 - 1000 pieces, which are used with special automated pneumatic nailers, capable to drive in 8-9 nails/second.
2005: Fasteners making machines of Taiwanese manufacture, capable to produce fasteners as per EN standard, were put into operation.
2006: Republican unitary enterprise "Rechitsa metizny plant" became a member of the Production Union "Byelorussian Steel Works". The Division of Foreign economic relations and Sales was created, which combined the Department of Foreign economic relations and Sales and Marketing Department.At present 2100 people are employed at the plant. The production of twisted wire, nails manufactured of twisted wire, self tapping screws as per STB ISO 7049-7051 was organized as well. The main sales markets are European countries and CIS.
In 2006-2007 one European bank makes an investment for the amount of 5 million Euro in Rechitsa metizny plant for the purpose of modernization of fasteners' production for manufacture of high-strength fasteners, wood screws, and screws. |
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