Growth in Russian ceramic brick market

The biggest country in the world, with probably the most diverse geology, Russia is also a relative newcomer to some of the Western business practices and attitudes that its global counterparts take for granted. After the collapse of communism, Russia had no SME style businesses as we see them in the West - dynamic and aggressive developers of new markets and ideas that can move geographically and economically to fill voids in the marketplace.

The Russian market is well known for its rapid changes with local financial markets causing volatility in the construction market.
“As in many developing markets, the young construction companies in Russia are facing challenges in their financing,” says Adrian Wood, Metso’s vice president, sales support, crushing and screening equipment, who with Tommi Lehtonen, the division’s president, has been keeping a keen eye on the trends in the construction industry in Russia and other emerging countries including