As Christmas toys manufactured in Krasnoyarsk Bashny.Net

In the Krasnoyarsk plant of Christmas toys "Biryusinka" begins busy season - New Year is approaching, and accordingly, the demand for the products of the factory. On "Biryusinka" toys make it practically hand - blown, burn, paint. Quality jewelry factory, founded in 1942, and are happy in the Kremlin - for many years the country's main Christmas tree decorated with toys is Biryusinsk.

Factory "Biryusinka" appeared in Krasnoyarsk in 1942. At the present time - is one of the leading companies in the industry, which produce a soft-stuffed toys, costumes for kids and adults, toys from PVC plastisol, glass Christmas decorations and toys packaging for Christmas gifts.

The factory was established on the basis of the Kombinat Stalin District in 1942 and originally known as "child's play", then the "Siberian toy." In 1989 the factory became a closed joint-stock company "Krasnoyarsk firm Biryusinka." Beyond the Urals is the only factory fir-tree toys.

But let's digress from the story and see how making glass Christmas toys Russian
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Glass Christmas toys are made by hand in the factory. This is a very time-consuming and hard work, but at the same time extremely exciting. Even the creation of unpretentious Christmas balls or figures need to invest a lot of energy. But first things first.



The first shop of the factory - the hot shop. Here, in the noise and heat working women glassmakers blown by a burner and its mouth of the glass tube blank toys. As a result of glassblowers, a transparent Christmas tree shapes that are called funny - golё. Weekday glassblower - 8 hours. During this time, each worker must produce preforms 200-250 depending on the shape of the future a toy. Workers glassblowers get a bit - 10-15 thousand rubles a month. But it is in the last months before the New Year. The rest of the order quite a bit.



The difficulty lies in the operation glassblower manufacturing accuracy: ball diameter, for example, must be observed up to 1-2 millimeters. If you get a little crooked, a ball thrown. To become a good glassmaker, have to be trained within six months and at least 2 years of work in the workplace.



From hot shop blanks enter the plating shop. Metallization - this is the only automated the entire production. In this shop glass beads are placed in large tanks. Next to them hung aluminum wire. In a vacuum tank and subjected to high temperature aluminum thin film is deposited on the surface of glass beads. The process takes about a minute. Glass forms acquire luster. Toys coated with a layer of aluminum, enter the paint shop. Here, every employee of a toy is dipped into the paint tank.



After the bath with toys put paint to dry.



After dried up their toys collected in boxes and sent to a department coloring.



The shop coloring artists painting the toys. Manually. As the guns they use brushes that dipped into the paint



Sometimes the ball can go on for several hours or even a whole day, depending on the complexity of the design. Masters extremely lacking. Such learning is not easy craft.



On the tables you can meet artists gouache, acrylic paints, fine beads, silver and golden powder.

Finished, painted toys are packed and sent to the warehouse and then to the stores where they purchase Russian and foreign buyers.



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