Polymer paints for crushed stone. Business in the production of colored crushed stone

Making colored crushed stone is not difficult. It is necessary to purchase ordinary crushed stone with a diameter of 10-30 mm and paint it in the desired color acrylic paint. Read on to learn how to set up such production and earn a good income.

Why do you need such a product?

Despite this ease of manufacture, colored crushed stone is in demand in a number of areas that include landscaping. These primarily include:

• organization of design and microclimate in a terrarium or aquarium;
• improvement of urban areas;
• landscape design in various areas;
• arrangement of cemetery plots and tombs.

It appears that the goods will mainly be sold in wholesale quantities. For example, for landscape design tens of tons of such material will be required. Even for the tomb, about a ton is also needed.

The target audience

Your business plan should not only calculate in detail the production of colored stone, but also its distribution channels. To do this, you need to decide on the target audience. The main buyers of such goods are:

• pet salons and pet stores that purchase it for retail sale for terrariums, aquariums and furnishings for other animals;
• pet owners for the same needs;
• organizations providing funeral services;
• landscape design companies;
• public utilities and landscaping services for creating lawns and flower beds;
• private individuals to develop their own plots.

Enterprise registration

For your business to operate legally, you need to register it. Which organizational and legal form to choose depends on what production volumes your company expects to produce. For small volumes, it is enough to register an individual entrepreneur. This procedure takes about five days and will require payment of a state fee of 800 rubles. In addition, in future activities it will be easier for you to maintain company records.

If you are planning volume production and plan to receive large orders, it is worth registering entity. As a rule, they settle on a form of organization such as an LLC. True, in this case you must have an authorized capital of at least 10 thousand rubles.

When choosing a taxation system, it is recommended, if possible, to choose a simplified system, which involves paying 15% of profits. When registering, you must indicate your desire to work using this system or switch to it within three days after receiving registration documents.

Production technology

For production, crushed stone of medium fraction is required. Moreover, to facilitate production, it is necessary to purchase raw materials of a specific fraction - then there is no need to sort it. As a rule, one purchase batch is about 14 tons and is delivered by a standard KAMAZ.

If heterogeneous raw materials were purchased, it must be sifted and crushed stone of the required fraction must be selected. For this they use special equipment– vibrating screen. Production begins with washing and drying the raw materials, since paint does not adhere well to a dirty and wet surface.

The raw materials ready for painting are loaded into a special hopper, from where they are fed with a shovel into a concrete mixer. It is filled with raw materials a little more than half. Then paint of the desired pigmentation is poured into it and the concrete mixer is turned on for no more than 15 minutes. After this, the painted stone is unloaded to dry.

This stage takes place on a special vibrating screen with a capacity of approximately 700 kg. The sieve must have a tray installed to drain excess paint from the crushed stone. Using a vibrating screen will help color the stone evenly and keep it clean. After drying, the crushed stone is loaded into a special bunker, where it is stored until the next stage. Production is completed by packaging the material into bags with a capacity of 5, 10, 15 or 20 kg. As a rule, this is done by hand, as well as sewing bags with a hand machine.

Equipment for the production of

The launch of production requires a small amount of equipment. The business plan includes the purchase of the following basic equipment:

• bag sewing machine;
• bunker for painted crushed stone;
• vibrating sieve for drying;
• concrete mixer for painting,
• bunker for raw materials.

Usually, for painting, they take a concrete mixer with a volume of 0.7 cubic meters and fill it with crushed stone up to 0.5 cubic meters. During a shift, it can paint two tons of crushed stone, but it will have to be loaded three times. As a rule, smaller volume concrete mixers are not used, since this is not cost-effective. Then you have to run it twice as much per shift, which increases electricity consumption and labor costs.

In total, approximately 960 thousand rubles will be spent on equipment that produces up to 13 tons per shift.

Additional tool

In addition to basic equipment, the business plan should provide for the purchase of additional equipment. You will need four shovels. One is intended for loading raw materials into the bunker, the other is for transferring from the bunker to the concrete mixer, the third is from the concrete mixer to the vibrating sieve, and the fourth is for unloading from the sieve into the storage bin finished products. Each shovel costs an average of 340 rubles.

For a concrete mixer of the specified volume, the business plan will require the purchase of about 310 kg of paint per day. On average, a kilogram of such paint costs 110 rubles. That is, a month will require a little more than 34 thousand rubles for paint.

The finished product is packaged in bags. Such a container for 20 kg costs approximately 4.5 rubles. unit. You will need at least 2.2 thousand pieces per month, that is, almost 10 thousand rubles must be allocated for their purchase.

Total additional tool will require about 1360 rubles, and for Consumables– 44 thousand rubles. for a month of work.

Staff

Business also has the advantage that finding staff to work with is quite easy. You can hire two workers for one shift. At the same time, their qualifications do not matter - the work is simple and does not require special knowledge. Therefore, you can select employees for production in the shortest possible time.

Financial side of the project

To summarize all of the above, we can say that a business at the start will require a little more than a million rubles, namely:

• 873 thousand rubles. for tools, equipment;
• 100 thousand rubles. for the purchase of raw materials;
• 50 thousand rubles. for opening and registration.

As for revenue, it can be calculated based on a production of 2 tons per shift with 22 shifts per month. Accordingly, up to 44 tons of products can be produced in a month. Colored crushed stone is sold for 12 thousand rubles. per ton subject to wholesale purchase, that is, revenue will be 528 thousand rubles.

The cost of 44 tons of crushed stone will be 110 thousand rubles. In this case, you need to deduct 200 thousand rubles. for wages and other expenses. The total remains 218 thousand rubles. net profit. That is, the business will pay for itself in about six months if you sell at least 20 tons of finished products per month.

Crushed stone is one of the most commonly used materials in construction. It is usually used as a filler for cement concrete and asphalt concrete mixtures, in the production of reinforced concrete structures and as one of them covering the construction of highways.

In the last couple of decades there have been the new kind specially prepared building crushed stone, which performs a decorative rather than a construction function.

- This specially painted natural stone (granite, marble) of small fraction. After painting, the surface of the crushed stone becomes smooth. The coloring matter does not lose its properties due to changes in temperature, humidity, sunlight and other influences.

Other names for colored (painted) crushed stone are painted pebbles, colored gravel, decorative painted stone. It is usually sold in bags. Used in landscape design, interior decoration, aquarium decoration, etc.

Price of colored crushed stone

Let's consider the feasibility of producing colored crushed stone from the point of view of commercial benefits. The cost of one ton of ordinary crushed stone is 2,000 rubles, and the cost of a bag of colored crushed stone is 300 rubles, i.e. you can earn decent money only by packaging.

The cost of colored crushed stone is much higher, so its production will be profitable.

How to make (make) colored crushed stone

Ordinary granite (marble) crushed stone is painted with special dyes, dried, packaged and sent to trade or to the consumer. A package of painted crushed stone usually holds 20-25 kg.

How to paint decorative crushed stone

Manufacturers of such crushed stone unanimously declare that acrylic dye is best suited for coloring. However, in the absence of one, several options for using other dyes can be proposed.

Let's start with necessary equipment and tools for painting crushed stone.

Equipment for the production of colored crushed stone, tools and materials

So, to make colored crushed stone you will need:

• Crushed stone - 2-3 tons;
• Paint – 100 kg;
• Installation or room for drying material with good ventilation;
• Vibrating screen VG-1 or its analogues – 1 unit. (from 89,000 rub.);
• Concrete mixer (bunker for painting) – 1 unit. (from 8,000 rub.)

If there are problems with financing, then at first you can do without the noise. In this case, you will have to sift the crushed stone manually using outer-size mesh. You can also not purchase a drying chamber yet, but dry the crushed stone directly in the open air.

Thus, the only equipment you need is a concrete mixer.

Already from the set of equipment it is clear that this production belongs to.

You can get by with spending no more than 100 thousand rubles to fully complete production.

If this is not possible, it is enough to buy a concrete mixer, sieves for sifting, paint and crushed stone itself.

Technology for the production of colored crushed stone

Name and sequence of technological processes for the production of colored crushed stone:

1.​ Sorting crushed stone to separate debris and separate fractions

Using a screen or mesh, crushed stone is sorted into fractions required size. As a rule, crushed stone larger than 10 mm is used, since it is more convenient to paint. Sorting is also necessary to remove contaminants from crushed stone.

2.​ Loading crushed stone into the concrete mixer hopper and adding paint

Paint of the required color is added in a volume of 20% of the volume of loaded crushed stone.

3.​ Mixing crushed stone with paint

Mix for 40-60 minutes to completely cover the material with a film.

4.​ Unloading crushed stone from a concrete mixer

The crushed stone should be removed through the mesh above the receiving hopper so that excess paint flows into the hopper and is used for the next painting.

5.​ Drying painted crushed stone

For large production volumes it is advisable to use drying chamber. If on initial stage There is no such chamber, then you can dry it in the open air.

6.​ Packing of painted crushed stone

Registration of activities

For small production best shape business registration will be IP – individual entrepreneur. The registration procedure is simple and does not require large expenses.

It is better to choose a tax system simplified tax system(simplified taxation system) with a tax of 15% of profit. To register on this system, you must submit an application for transfer from common system taxation on the simplified tax system.

Profitability of production of colored crushed stone

Material consumption for the production of 1 ton of colored crushed stone:

• Crushed granite (marble). The cost of 1 ton of crushed stone is 2,000 rubles.
• Water-based paint with a consumption of 20 kg per ton of crushed stone. The cost of paint is 200 rubles/kg. To produce 1 ton of crushed stone you need to buy paints for 4,000 rubles.

Total: the cost of producing 1 ton of colored crushed stone is 6,000 rubles.

The retail price of colored crushed stone is 22,500 rubles per ton. The profit per ton will be 16,500 rubles.

Remained unaccounted for wage, taxes, advertising and transport costs, packaging costs, rent, etc. However, from the above figures it is clear that the net profit will be at least 50% of the investment. For a low-cost business this is a very good indicator.

As in any production, the main thing for - ensure constant sales of products produced. Even before starting the production of colored crushed stone, you should conduct marketing research on the use and need for your products.

Research should be carried out among companies involved in landscape design, interior design, etc. Some of the products can be sold to construction supermarkets, shops, markets, etc. Packing crushed stone in paper or plastic bags of 20-25 kg is convenient for transfer to retail.

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Colored crushed stone and decorative chips are used in landscape design and in creating a favorable microclimate in terrariums and aquariums. The production of colored crushed stone and chips is quite profitable, since the unpainted version - the raw material - is much cheaper than the final version.

The raw materials used are marble crushed stone, granite or marble chips, or gravel or sand.

• private individuals using building stone for landscaping adjacent areas;
• municipal organizations and city landscaping services for the design of lawns and flower beds;
• companies performing specific landscape creation work;
• organizations of funeral services performing arrangement of cemetery plots;
• pet owners who purchase colored crushed stone and chips to provide a natural microclimate for aquariums and terrariums;
• pet store owners to create a spectacular environment.

Manufacturing technology

Crushed stone of a fraction from 10 to 30 mm is suitable as a raw material, and can be used to add color different paint, as well as various binders. The principle of manufacturing products does not involve any complex operations, as a result of which we obtain a product that is quite in demand in modern construction material for creating landscape design - multi-colored stone.

Process video:

1) It is planned to purchase specially selected raw materials, medium-fraction stones, in the range from 10 to 30 mm. When purchasing crushed stone of a specific fraction, there is no need for additional sorting. The material is stored in a bunker, from where it is shipped for painting as needed. Shovels are used for batch loading. Storing crushed stone without cover is not recommended, as the pores of the stone become clogged, and the quality of painting suffers as a result. To apply paint, it is necessary to ensure a dry and clean surface of the material. Based on the volume of transportation, which is most often carried out by KAMAZ, a one-time delivery of cargo equates to a volume of about 14 tons (10 m3).

2) The delivered crushed stone or crumbs are placed in a painting hopper, the function of which can be performed by a concrete mixer. If the standard volume of a concrete mixer is 0.7 cubic meters, and it is not filled to the brim, but slightly above half, then the crushed stone occupies approximately 0.5 cubic meters. Paint is added to the material in one container. To get 2 tons of finished material during a shift, the concrete mixer must work three cycles. Reducing the volume of raw materials loaded into a concrete mixer is impractical: the profitability of production will decrease, since obtaining the same volume of finished product will require a greater number of cycles of operation of the concrete mixer. In practice it looks like in the following way: 0.2 cubes need to be run 6 times to get a result of 2 tons (in in this case a cube of crushed stone/crumbs is 1.41 t).

4) Next, if, for example, granite chips are used, then they are sifted through a vibrating sieve. It is ideal to use a sieve with a tray. After dyeing, each pebble should have a uniform color and be clean. If we compare regular and painted crushed stone, then the difference looks like this: a ton of dyed colored - 22-24 thousand rubles, and a ton of undyed - 1000 rubles. Of course, the buyer will carefully analyze the quality of the product, so it is unjustified to be careless in drying technology.

5) Ready colored crushed stone or decorative crumbs stored using for this purpose the same bunker as for storing raw materials. On storing expensive products without packaging and protective coating there is no question. It is packaged dry and clean.

6) Tara. Traditional packaging is bags designed for loads from 5 to 20 kg. The packaging process is carried out manually and with the use of an auxiliary tool (shovel). Filled bags are healed using a bag sewing mechanism.

Equipment for the production of

The production of multi-colored crushed stone does not require large investments if ready-made raw materials are used.

Equipment includes:

• bunker No. 1 (for raw materials);
• concrete mixer (for painting);
• vibrating sieve (for sifting);
• bunker No. 2 (for finished products);
• device for sewing bags.

Equipment is selected taking into account maximum productivity and lowest cost.

Two bunkers for bulk building materials with a capacity of 10 m3 will cost 300,000 rubles; concrete mixer domestic production– 200,000 rubles; vibrating sieve – 40,000 rubles; bag sewing device (preferably made in Belgium) – 40,000 rubles.

The above set of equipment for the production of colored crushed stone is designed to produce products in a volume of 10 m3 per shift. Based on the capacity of a concrete mixer, for example, the Prof-BS700 brand, which produces 0.7 m3 of product in a quarter of an hour, and the drying time for each batch, which is about 5 minutes, it will not be possible to obtain more.

Additional equipment and consumables

To paint stone, you need a dye and at least two shovels intended for loading raw materials into a concrete mixer, from it into a vibrating sieve, and then into the finished product bunker. If the cost of a shovel is about 300 rubles, four shovels will cost 1,200 rubles.

Since the paint and binding materials may be different, the prices for them are different. Most likely, you will have to experiment with dyes in your search best option for your business producing colored decorative stones.

Painted crushed stone or crumbs are packed in 20 kg bags. Thus, about 2,000 bags will be required per month, costing 9,000 rubles per month.

The popularity of colored crushed stone as a finishing and decorative material is constantly growing. The secret is simple - decorative crushed stone is ideal for creating your own unique design for your home and park landscape.

With multi-colored crushed stone you can decorate the bottom of the aquarium, decorate the walls in an original and bright way, or create original garden paths and alleys.

Entrepreneurs like, first of all, the simplicity of the technology for producing colored crushed stone. You can understand the production process in a couple of days.

The cost of purchasing the necessary equipment does not exceed one hundred thousand rubles and will pay off quite quickly. Business profitability starts from 50% and reaches 100% or more.

In addition to small start-up costs, the advantage of this business is that two workers are enough to organize work in one shift. Moreover, the work of painting crushed stone does not require special production skills, therefore, it will not be difficult to find workers.

Organization of production of decorative colored crushed stone

To launch a mini-workshop for the production of decorative crushed stone, you need to purchase the following equipment:

1. Vibrating screen(industrial vibrating sieves for sorting bulk materials into different fractions), sifts crushed stone into fractions required sizes. We recommend purchasing a screen with a capacity of 20 cubic meters per hour or more. The cost of such equipment is from 90 thousand rubles. Of course, you can immediately purchase sifted crushed stone, but it costs much more, so the vibrating screen will pay for itself quickly.
2. Concrete mixer, is not used for its intended purpose, but as a paint hopper. By pouring crushed stone and pouring paint, you can evenly paint the stone in the chosen color. It is advisable to purchase your own concrete mixer for each color - this will speed up your production and expand the range of finished products. The cost of the cheapest concrete mixer is from 8 thousand rubles.
3. Drying chamber (hopper)— designed to speed up the drying of colored crushed stone. Cost from 100 thousand rubles.

You can reduce your start-up costs a little more and avoid buying a vibrating screen and a drying hopper. So, crushed stone is supposed to be sorted manually without rattling, sifting it through meshes different sizes, attracting low-wage workers. And already painted crushed stone can be dried simply in the open air, but the waiting time for the finished product will increase. True, you can’t do without a concrete mixer.

The production of decorative crushed stone takes place in several stages

The production concept is simple and does not require any high-tech devices or devices.

• If necessary, sifting and sorting of crushed stone to obtain different fractions;
• Loading crushed stone into a concrete mixer for painting;
• Painting crushed stone by mixing it in a concrete mixer;
• Removing painted crushed stone from the bunker;
• Drying of painted crushed stone;

The most common size of crushed stone after sifting is about 1-2 cm (10-20 mm). This is neither too large nor a small fraction. It is more convenient to paint such crushed stone than fine crushed stone. By the way, when sorting crushed stone, not only the finer fraction is eliminated, but also earthen dust along with garbage and other impurities. Some entrepreneurs complement manufacturing process washing the stone to remove dust and other minor contaminants.

Attention! The crushed stone should be dry, this will make the color brighter and more saturated. Drying crushed stone can be done directly in a concrete mixer; to do this, just load the crushed stone, turn on the concrete mixer and install gas burner, directed inside the bunker. 20-30 minutes of operation of the structure will allow the crushed stone to dry completely.

After sorting, the crushed stone is poured into a concrete mixer, paint is poured with the crushed stone a certain color calculated - 20% of the total mass of crushed stone.

To avoid waste of paint, the painted crushed stone is unloaded onto metal mesh and let it sit. Excess paint, drained and collected in this simple way, can be used to paint the next portion of crushed stone. You can alternate, while the finished batch is being tracked on the grid, crushed stone with a new batch of paint is loaded into the concrete mixer. You will paint the next batch of crushed stone with the paint that has already drained, adding a little new paint.

The last stage is drying the finished crushed stone. For small production volumes, the finished, painted crushed stone is dried in the street air. With increasing production volumes, it is better to use a special drying chamber or drying bins. True, you will have to pay a tidy sum for such equipment.

Registration of activities for the production of colored crushed stone

To make a business legal, you need to register an individual entrepreneur or create an LLC. For small businesses, it is better to open an individual entrepreneur, the registration of which is extremely simple and does not require large payments.

As for the tax system, you need to choose the “simplified tax system” (USN - simplified taxation system).
Under the simplified tax system, an entrepreneur pays only 15% tax on the profit of his enterprise. To register an individual entrepreneur using a simplified procedure, you need to write an application to the Federal Tax Service of Russia within three days from the date of opening the individual entrepreneur.

Some OKVED codes suitable for the production of decorative crushed stone

• 26.70 — Cutting, processing and finishing of decorative and building stone
• 36.63 — Production of other products not included in other groups
• 37.20 — Processing of non-metallic waste and scrap
• 26.82 — Production of other non-metallic mineral products not included in other groups

Income and expenses of your business on colored crushed stone

Let's calculate approximate cost and the profit of such a business. To make one ton of decorative crushed stone you need:

1. Water-based paint for exterior use, it is better to take acrylic or silicone. This paint dries quickly, does not fade, does not crack, and is not afraid of frost and humidity. The cost of paint is approximately 1 kg - 10-20 rubles;
2. Marble or granite crushed stone (costs from 2000 rubles/ton, for unsifted);

In total, the total cost for a ton of colored crushed stone is 6,000 rubles.

The average price of decorative crushed stone is 22-23 thousand rubles per ton. So, the income from one ton of non-ferrous products is about 17,000 rubles. Profitability - up to 200%! You can increase profits if you hang and package finished products in small containers, which will be sold by the kilogram for small household needs. This way you can increase profitability up to 400%, although the issue of sales will arise (more on that below), and it will be much more difficult to find retail buyers than wholesale ones.

When engaging in such a business, it is worth optimizing all stages. Otherwise, expenses for transport, wages for workers, taxes, etc. can “gobble up” up to 40% of the profit. But still, even the profit will be around 50%, a very good indicator for a business with starting capital less than 100 thousand rubles.

Sales of finished products

The first condition for the success of any business is, of course, marketing, that is, sales. We need high-quality, selling advertising for the product. At first, if you are planning mass production, these are billboards and banners along suburban roads.

For smaller production, when you sell colored crushed stone in small containers(packed in small bags of 20-30 kilograms), then it’s a good idea to distribute trial samples of products to construction markets and negotiate with sellers on generous percentages on sales (remember that a profit of 50% is also an excellent indicator of this business). Such sales work better than any advertising.

It is best to launch a trial series of sales in early spring, when the arrangement of summer cottages and suburban houses is in full swing. By creating a customer flow during spring sales, you can count on constant customer demand throughout the season. In the off-season, you can organize marketing campaigns - collecting pre-orders from everyone, with free storage of finished products until the start of the season. In this way, you will load your production and free it from seasonality, and you will be able to load your warehouses with raw material for the whole season, since in winter bulk construction material costs much less than in the construction season.

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