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The Reshenie company anticipates that St Petersburg's market of reinforced concrete structures will grow 13% in 2014. This is attributed to the growth of prefab home construction. The market of large-panel construction (including production and assembly of reinforced concrete structures) is worth RUB 25 billion (€535.62 million)/year and the market of reinforced concrete structures is worth RUB 7.50 billion (€160.68 million). There are about 30-40 large producers of reinforced concrete in the city, ac

May 28, 2014 Read time: 1 min

The Reshenie company anticipates that St Petersburg's market of reinforced concrete structures will grow 13% in 2014.

This is attributed to the growth of prefab home construction. The market of large-panel construction (including production and assembly of reinforced concrete structures) is worth RUB 25 billion (€535.62 million)/year and the market of reinforced concrete structures is worth RUB 7.50 billion (€160.68 million).

There are about 30-40 large producers of reinforced concrete in the city, accounting for 80-85% of the market, collectively.

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