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Quality put to the test ALUTECH
QUALITY PUT TO THE TEST
A 2020 award for the environmental friendliness of its sectional doors confirms ALUTECH’s position at the forefront of Europe’s aluminium building products industry.
In August 2020, the ALUTECH Group was awarded an Environmental Product Declaration for the sectional doors produced by its subsidiary ALUTECH Doors Systems. The declaration, which covers its garage, industrial and Panoramic door systems and is verified by IFT Rosenheim, the German Institute for testing and certification of building products, confirms that the company’s sectional doors have minimal impact on the environment during all life-cycle stages, including the manufacturing process, recycling and disposal at the end of their operational life.
ALUTECH is one of the largest manufacturers of roll-formed aluminium profiles in Europe. It also holds the leading position on the roller shutter systems and sectional doors market in Eastern Europe. Headquartered in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, the ALUTECH Group of companies today includes six manufacturing operations and 25 sales companies in the Czech Republic, Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine, Germany and Austria.
The Group’s facilities include a modern panel production line for sectional doors, roll-forming lines, an aluminium coil coating and cutting unit, aluminium extrusion lines, automated machines for high pressure casting of aluminium alloys, powder coating lines and the CIS’s largest complex for anodizing aluminium profiles. The quality management systems of all ALUTECH plants have been certified in compliance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001 by TUV CERT.
ALUTECH products are supplied to the countries of both Eastern and Western Europe, including the Czech Republic, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The company also exports to Asia, Africa and North America. In fact, ALUTECH systems have been installed at millions of sites in 65 countries around the world.
Sectional doors
The ALUTECH Group of companies is today the leading manufacturer of sectional doors in the CIS countries. Its current range of sectional doors includes garage doors, with a crossbar design that makes them suitable for installation in almost any type of garage. It also produces an extensive range of industrial sectional doors up to a size of 7x6m that are suitable for most kinds of production buildings.
Electric motors are available for garage doors and for industrial doors as well as remote control devices, optical sensors and photocells, control lights, signal lights etc.
All types of ALUTECH sectional doors are operationally safe regardless of whether they are driven electrically or manually. All systems comply with the European safety standards EN 12604 and EN 12453.
Roller shutters
Roller shutter systems are one of the most efficient ways to protect premises from break-in and burglary, hence their widespread use by banks, boutiques and shopping malls. Roller shutters also help in maintaining a comfortable in-house atmosphere protecting windows
from bright sun, strong wind and rain, noise, dust and strangers. In winter roller shutters help to preserve warmth in the house, while in the summer they keep the house cool.
The wide range of ALUTECH systems includes roller shutters for window and door openings, roller garage doors and rolling grills. They are suitable for installation in private houses and garages, stores, boutiques, banks, trade pavilions, cafes and restaurants, industrial shops or warehouses.
Profile systems
ALUTECH was the first company in Belarus to focus on the production of architectural and construction systems made of aluminium extruded profiles.
Today the use of aluminium profiles in construction includes facade systems, entry elements, office and interior partition walls and facades with structural glazing as well as translucent roofs and stained glass windows. Aluminium facade structures are also an integral part of modern architecture.
ALUTECH also offers multi-purpose automatic systems at various price levels and with various degrees of complexity. These systems are produced by leading manufacturers in the field of door automation including Nice (Italy) and Marantec (Germany). These systems offer instant gate and door control and are suitable for use in various climatic conditions.
Production sites
The ALUTECH Group’s production facilities today include three operations in Belarus, one in Ukraine and one in Siberia. ALUTECH Incorporated, based in Minsk, is a modern industrial enterprise producing and supplying a wide range of profiles, components and accessories, such as drives/motors and control systems for roller shutters. It has a production capacity of over 50 million metres of roll formed profiles per year.
The entire process flow represents a complete production cycle, from coating the source coils (painting and cutting of aluminium and steel lath, roll forming) to packaging of the finished products. The plant uses the most up-to-date automated production lines that enable quality control of the manufactured products at all stages of the production process.
Alutech Doors Systems, also based in Minsk, produces sectional doors and a wide range of panels and components and elements from aluminium alloys using die-casting technologies. It has a production capacity of 240,000 doors per year and an automated warehouse for sandwich panels with a capacity for 230,000 linear metres.
AluminTechno (Minsk) is one of the largest factories in Eastern Europe producing extruded aluminium profiles and performing powder coating and anodic treatment. It produces 45,000 tons of extruded profiles per year, more than 35,000 tons of powder coated profiles and more than 10,000 tons of anodised profiles per year.
Ukraine and Siberia
Alutech-K, based in Kiev, is a production and sales company representing ALUTECH in Ukraine. The company has at its disposal high-tech production lines for manufacture of sectional doors and assembly of roller shutter systems, as well as up-to-date warehouses for a wide range of Alutech products (aluminium profile systems, doors, roller shutter systems, automatics systems).
Alutech-Sibir LLC, the Group’s newest production facility in Novosibirsk, Siberia, is a modern manufacturing site specialized in the production of roller shutters, sectional doors and entrance gates. The company also supplies aluminium profiles, kitting and accessories, drives and control systems for doors and roller shutters. n
Stublina d.o.o.
One of the strategic partners of Alumin Techno is the company Stublina doo. Present on the market in over 30 countries worldwide and located in Serbia Stublina is a great example of how dedicated work and vision can turn a small company into a giant and one of the leaders in the production of hardware fittings for aluminum and PVC profiles. Covering 5ha, 3 production facilities with the most modern equipment and tools, and 350 employees. ALUMIN TECHNO, is a company with whom we have achieved a long-term and very successful cooperation, where our distribution network has gained new dimensions.
The 10-year-long collaboration with ALUTECH, starting in 2010, continues with the same seriousness and commitment as from the first day. With more than 2000 different items we provide to ALUETCH a large variety of products for their systems, while the number of delivered quantities confirms it, with over 1,200,000 pieces of fittings annually, 150.000 window handles, door handles, 250.000 hinges and sets for T&T tilt opening. We believe that big success requires big effort, perseverance and constant improvement through modernization, innovative approaches and constructive solutions.