– Contrary to appearances, the force that makes our products are sold is a traditional technology that allows for arbitrary shapes of bricks as ordered by the contractor. We can do a short series of fittings and bricks of different sizes and textures, min. Gothic monastery, garden and English – Felix says Trojanowski, the owner of a brickyard Trojanowscy with Splavy.
Advantages of manually produced brick increasingly appreciated by both architects and conservators. Therefore, this material is used both to get interesting color facades, fences, retaining walls, fireplaces, as well as for renovation work in historic buildings.
An opportunity for providing an outlet for Kraśnicka brick at the prevailing current crisis in the domestic construction industry, they are foreign contracts. In this connection, also Poland is the only country in Europe where brick is produced by hand, this material is becoming more and more taking on the West. For there the traditional brick factories belong to the past. Polish entrepreneurs so they started to export the material mainly to the UK and Germany.
– Poisk brick beginning to be appreciated outside the country. Foreign customers are, however, quite high demands on the shape, size and color, which must be uniform. That is why we asked for help the technologist, who developed a method of mixing carbon monoxide so as to get the right color for the type of product. Goods must be of high quality and properly packed for so intact reached the recipient. Although it is sometimes difficult, we try to meet the wishes of customers – explains Eng. Andrzej Rej.
Brick want to survive a difficult period. On the market there is fierce competition between traditional manufakturami and establishments that manufacture bricks using machines. In addition to Poland to watch football growing expansion of western companies that offer customers new building materials. According to the owners of the brick factory, but the western brick, despite the attractive appearance they do not meet many of the requirements, and their properties are much worse than those traditionally produced building materials. They believe that these products are overrated, but behind them the powerful capital. It is hard to compete with companies such small businesses.
– Classically built houses with two-layer walls, where the outer layer is a brick, this happens even ocipienie. As for the behavior of heat-transfer coefficient. In contrast, single-layer walls, made of materials that advertise western companies, but in practice, and so require warming. Do not get fooled by appearances – says Eng. Andrzej Rej.
The promotion brick Kraśnik can benefit the entire region of Lublin. If in our province is the largest such plants to distinguish themselves from the others. Manufacture and recourse to medieval tradition can become a force advertising, which downloads the attention of foreign partners.
FOT. JOANNA Biegalska