"Sveza" in St. Petersburg creates a three-dimensional space

2025: Application of Additive Technologies

The plywood plant of the timber industry group Sveza"" St. Petersburg in the first in the company began to master. additive technologies Now the company manufactures not only master parts for the final product, but also independent finished products. Sveza announced this on February 12, 2025.

The Sveza timber industry group actively uses modern technologies to find new professional and industrial solutions. The use of additive technologies helps the company in the market to establish the process of total import substitution, introduce innovations and solve issues of improving security in the workplace.

The St. Petersburg Svezy plant has been actively using 3D printers since 2021. As of February 2025, the work has been established in two directions: printing parts that are templates (Rapid Patterns), and direct digital production of the finished product (Direct Digital Manufacturing). The Rapid Patterns method is used by employees of the mechanical repair department. They print on a 3D printer the plastic prototype of the part of the equipment necessary for replacement, and after a comprehensive run-in, they drain it from metal on a lathe. In the second direction, there is a maintenance and repair service to quickly replace worn-out parts of equipment or develop completely new ones.

For four years, our team has gained extensive experience not only in making parts according to existing templates, but also learned to independently create drawings and draw 3D projects. Some 3D components fully replace worn parts without compromising product quality. In the current conditions, when logistics has become more difficult and longer, and some suppliers have left the Russian market, our own production of parts allows us to minimize the time and avoid equipment downtime, "said Alexei Svirelkin, head of the maintenance and repair department for the production of plywood at the Sveza plant in St. Petersburg.

The St. Petersburg enterprise is continuously working to improve the safety of workplaces, and 3D printers help in this. So, on the industrial site, control panels, protective barriers, cases for electrical sensors, equipment blockers, information tags and much more are printed and used. This allows you to quickly eliminate potentially bottlenecks in production and reduce the cost of modernizing equipment.

The next stage in the development of the plant for the development of additive technologies is the adjustment of the 3D scanner and the introduction of artificial intelligence. This will significantly increase performance in product modeling and development. In addition, it will help reduce the impact on the environment by more accurately adjusting production to the characteristics of the future part.