# ALBELA production in Kirishi: plant, capacity, quality control

> How ALBELA manufactures: own solid surface sheet casting, 8,000 items per month of design capacity, three CNC machines, laboratories, incoming inspection and final QC.

URL: https://albela.ru/en/production/

P R O D U C T I O N
“First we cast the stone. Only then do we make things out of it.”
[ Material ](https://albela.ru/en/material/)
## Own manufacturing · Kirishi
# ALBELA production — our own sheet, our own machines, our own quality control 
ALBELA does not resell finished pieces and does not assemble them from bought-in sheet. The stone is cast on our own site in Kirishi, and the same site cuts, thermoforms, bonds and polishes that sheet into a finished basin, countertop, bathtub or mirror. Below: the floor space, the capacity, the equipment and how every piece is checked. 
## In figures
## Site and capacity
8,000+
items per month · design capacity
100,000 m²
of sheet per year · cast in house
17,000 m²
buildings on site
7,500 m²
main workshop
3
CNC machines for sheet machining
3 + 2
laboratories and test benches
under 2%
reject rate
90%
of waste goes back into production
Where these figures come from. Floor space, capacity and equipment are design and nameplate data for the site. The reject rate and the share of waste returned to production come from internal manufacturing records; a summary is available on request. The 8,000 items per month is design capacity, not current output — catalogue lead times do not follow from it, see below. 
## Route of a piece
## From stone to object
Most ALBELA pieces start as sheet cast in house: it is heated, formed, bonded and worked back into a monolith. Bathtubs and selected models are cast in a mould. Both routes run on the same site. 
01
Sheet casting: PMMA resin, ATH filler, vacuum degassing, tunnel curing
02
Cutting and milling on three CNC machines — geometry held within fractions of a millimetre
03
Thermoforming: under heat the sheet takes the bowl, the radius, the curved edge
04
Seamless bonding with an adhesive based on the same resin — the joint stays invisible
05
Sanding and polishing: the joint is levelled, the surface taken to its final finish
06
Final inspection, marking and packing
Sheet handling on the line is done by vacuum manipulators and machining by CNC equipment. There are no industrial robots on site: forming, bonding and finishing remain the work of a craftsman, and that work is what decides how the joint turns out. 
## Lead times
## Why a piece takes 20–35 days
Site capacity and the lead time of one order are different things. Every piece is made to its own dimensions, cut-outs, finish and lighting, so it joins a queue and follows its own machining route. The lead time is set by the queue and by custom dimensions, not by line capacity. 
  * Countertop basins, countertops, care products — in stock.
  * Made-to-order items — 20 working days.
  * Trade batches from 10 units — from 20 working days, [terms for furniture makers](https://albela.ru/en/partners/).

## Material
## We cast the stone ourselves
The sheet ALBELA pieces are made from is cast on this same site. The material has its own industrial brand — LISTACRYL — under which it is supplied to furniture makers and fabricators.
That is a market test in itself: the material in your bathroom is bought by plants that depend on batch-to-batch consistency.
[How the sheet casting line works — listacryl.com](https://listacryl.com/)
The binder is pure PMMA acrylic resin with no styrene; the filler is aluminium trihydrate ATH. Pigment runs through the full thickness, so wear does not change the shade and a scratch is sanded out in place.
[Composition and properties](https://albela.ru/en/material/) · [why styrene-free](https://albela.ru/en/styrene-in-solid-surface/)
## Quality control
## Two checkpoints and three laboratories
  * Incoming inspection. Resin and filler are checked before they enter the mix: the raw batch decides the strength and colour of the whole slab.
  * Final inspection. Each finished piece is checked for geometry, joint quality and surface before packing.
  * Laboratories and test benches. Three laboratories and two test benches on site: formulations, heat resistance, strength, structural uniformity.
  * Reject rate under 2% by internal records. A piece that fails inspection goes back into production, not to a customer.

Documents. Certificate of conformity, fire safety certificate (G2 · V2 · D2 · T2), ISO 9001 quality management certificate and test reports — [in the Documents section](https://albela.ru/en/documents/). Machine-readable version — [certificates.json](https://albela.ru/certificates.json). 
## People and waste
## Who makes it, and what is left over
#### The team
The material is run by staff chemical technologists: formulation, sheet casting, laboratory. The pieces are made by engineers and shop-floor craftsmen; machine operators are trained on site, on the equipment they will work on. The team is stable, with no turnover on the shop floor.
#### Waste
Offcuts, milling swarf and pieces that fail inspection do not go to landfill: about 90% of waste returns to production. Acrylic solid surface allows this — the material is uniform through its whole mass.
### Want to see the material in person? We will send samples
[Get in touch](https://albela.ru/en/contacts/)