On April 29, 2021, participants of the Ceramic Materials Manufacturers Association, manufacturers of ceramic bricks and stone, gathered at the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow to discuss a number of issues. The meeting was held with the possibility of remote access for the CMMA members from the regions of the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East.

Congratulations on joining the CMMA were received by several participants at once, including the Vinzilinsky Plant of Ceramic Wall Materials (VPCWM, Tyumen region) and Novomoskovskogneupor represented by its management USSK company.

During the meeting, the Ceramic Materials Manufacturers Association and the Directorate of the Expocenter signed an agreement on continuing cooperation to enhance the strategic partnership, which will promote the development of the ‘brick’ exposition within the framework of the RosBuild exhibition.

The participants of the meeting discussed the problems of statistical accounting and analytics based on it as well as the issues of technical regulation. They also worked out practical solutions for a number of standards and a single set of rules. The meeting was attended by representatives of industrial science: Research Institute of Building Constructions (TSNIISK) named after V.A. Koucherenko and the VNIISTROM Scientific Center of Ceramics.

Albert Popov, Director of CMMA, told about the state support measures planned in the near future when using Russian raw materials. Yulia Pikovskaya, Head of the Marketing and International Economic Relations Department of LLC Sympreal, emphasized the possibility of working together to create a new product line of bricks and stone. Sympreal is a new name of Novoorsk Ceramics, the well-known supplier of raw materials for our enterprises, which continues working on new batch compositions within the rebranding strategy.

At the end of the meeting, its participants exchanged opinions on a number of other issues, including those related to regional restrictions for manufacturers of wall ceramics from other regions, prospects for revising GOST 530, and problems of auto transportation.