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 house and park landscape.

Multi-colored crushed stone can be used to decorate the bottom of an aquarium, decorate indoor walls in an original and bright way, and 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.

Purchase costs necessary equipment do 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 various fractions), sifts crushed stone into fractions of the 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 of different sizes, using low-paid workers. And already painted crushed stone can be dried simply under open air, just the waiting time for finished products 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 and 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 of crushed stone can be carried out 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 total mass crushed stone

To avoid overuse of paint, the painted crushed stone is unloaded onto a metal mesh and allowed to settle. 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).
At USN entrepreneur pays only 15% tax on the profits 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 the approximate cost and 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 a start-up capital of 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), it is a good idea to distribute test samples of products to construction markets and negotiate with sellers on generous percentages on sales (remember that the profit is 50% is also an excellent indicator of this business). Such sales work better than any advertising.

It is best to launch a trial sales series in early spring, when full swing dachas and suburban houses are being developed. 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. Thus, you will load your production and relieve it of seasonality, and you will be able to load your warehouses source material for the whole season, since in winter bulk construction material costs much less than during the construction season.

Video: technology for 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 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, landscape design will require tens of tons of such material. 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 target audience. The main buyers of such goods are:

• pet salons and pet stores that purchase it for retail sales 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 a legal entity. As a rule, they settle on a form of organization such as an LLC. True, in this case you should have authorized capital not less than 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 the 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 purpose, special equipment is used - a 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 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 must provide for the purchase of additional equipment. You will need four shovels. One is intended for loading raw materials into a bunker, the other is for transferring from a bunker into a concrete mixer, the third is from a concrete mixer onto a vibrating sieve, and the fourth is for unloading from a sieve into a bunker for storing 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.

In total, an additional tool will require about 1,360 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.

If you are planning to fill a path in the garden with crushed stone or make a mound in the yard, you have a choice - to use gray nondescript crushed stone or decorative crushed stone painted in all the colors of the rainbow. You don’t need to spend much – anyone can make colored crushed stone with their own hands.

DIY decorative crushed stone - a practical novelty

Decorative crushed stone recently appeared on construction market– Manufacturers of this building material are just beginning to master the technology of painting it on an industrial scale. The technology involves the use of resistant external factors paints that are non-toxic and harmless to soil and plants. The production of colored crushed stone promotes the use of this material in landscape design- this includes colored garden paths, rainbow flower beds and flower beds, creating all kinds of inscriptions on the ground, adding bedding around the walls of houses and cottages, framing monuments and creating a bright bottom and bank in artificial streams and ponds, designing children's playgrounds and much more.

In addition to external beauty, it is also practical, and in this aspect of the issue, the Europeans, who were the first to master the coloring of crushed stone, certainly know a lot - according to their calculations, the use of such an element in the future significantly reduces maintenance costs beautiful view in parks, around monuments and in flower beds. Indeed, backfilling with colored crushed stone is an extremely durable way to solve various problems. Crushed stone inhibits the growth of weeds, prevents the soil from weathering, allows moisture to pass freely and promotes its retention in the soil, and if necessary, it can be collected and used elsewhere or even used for construction purposes.

You can either purchase a ready-made decorative material, and paint it yourself. When purchasing, be sure to ask what paints were used to give the corresponding color - polymer paints can retain their color for several decades. In addition, do not be shy to look into the bag - the material must be of the same fraction, evenly colored and without signs of premature peeling of paint.

Making colored crushed stone with your own hands - production technology

You can make colored crushed stone yourself - there is nothing secret or super complicated in the technology itself. For this you will need a concrete mixer, metal grid, a container for painted crushed stone, a shovel and, of course, crushed stone and paint. Granite crushed stone is most often used - it paints better and, moreover, is quite cheap.

How to make colored crushed stone with your own hands - step by step diagram

Step 1: Preparing the Material

Manufacturers of crushed stone for construction work Of course, granite crushed stone is not specially prepared for painting, so in the general pile you may end up with stones from different sizes. Manufacturers of colored crushed stone use special device called "rumble". With its help, the screening method is used to sort bulk materials into small and large fractions. It’s unlikely that you have a “rumble” lying around in your barn, but you probably have a metal mesh.

Before you paint the crushed stone yourself, pull it at an angle of at least 60° and shovel the crushed stone to the very top to ensure a larger sifting scale. Larger pieces will roll down the mesh, while smaller pieces will fall to the ground underneath the mesh. For painting, it is best to use pebbles about 10 mm long - such crushed stone is most convenient for filling garden paths. Smaller ones will also be useful for decorating flower beds and flower beds, and you can always use large pieces for construction purposes.

Step 2: Painting the crushed stone

The sorted material must be poured into a concrete mixer. By the way, you can do it yourself if you have unnecessary metal barrel. Paint of the color we need is poured over the crushed stone - you can use both polymer and acrylic paints. To achieve best color, the volume of paint must be at least a third of the volume of crushed stone loaded into the concrete mixer. Having started the unit, you can calmly rest for the next 40-60 minutes - this is exactly how much time is needed for uniform coloring.

Step 3: Drying the Stones

While decorative crushed stone, made by hand, acquires new color, you can prepare a receiving container if you have not already done so. The container is a large box with a mesh stretched around its perimeter. If it is a metal net, then it can be stretched a short distance from the bottom of the box; if you are using a regular mesh, pull it to the very top of the container. Thanks to this device, excess paint will flow freely to the bottom of the box, and the painted material will remain on the mesh.

Remove the crushed stone from the net and spread it on outdoors for drying, placing plastic wrap. The paint remaining in the box can be reused to paint a new portion.

How to paint crushed stone with your own hands - laying and creating patterns

You can also create bright or colorful flower beds yourself, without the help of specialists. For this you will need a shovel, a wheelbarrow, polyethylene film, borders, plastic or metal strips and ready-made decorative crushed stone.

How to paint crushed stone with your own hands - step-by-step diagram

Step 1: Prepare the place for installation

In the place where the material will be poured, it is necessary to remove about 10 cm of the top layer of soil. Pour the soil into a wheelbarrow - there will probably be a place in your garden where you can put it later.

Step 2: Place the borders

If you decide to make a regular garden path, all you need is to put up the curbs. They can be used as natural stone, or plastic and metal strips. The borders should sit securely on the surface, you can even dig them lightly into the soil.

In order to create an interesting and colorful design for a garden or park, they often resort to using painted crushed stone. In addition, such original decorative material is widely used in interior design, when decorating aquariums and decorative flower pots.

The demand for painted crushed stone is quite high and has not fallen for many years. Using the production of colored crushed stone as a business is quite profitable. The technology for its production is not particularly difficult, and it is quite easy to master.

Business documents

To start your own business, first of all, you need to register. To engage in painting crushed stone for the purpose of its subsequent sale, you can register as an individual entrepreneur (IP) or legal entity– limited liability companies (LLC).

Since such production is not characterized by huge turnover and large industrial production, it is easier and more convenient to register as an individual entrepreneur. To do this you need:

• write an application in the prescribed form to the federal tax service at your place of registration;
• pay the state fee for registration as an individual entrepreneur;
• present a passport or other document that allows you to identify your identity.

After submitting the specified documents, after five working days, you will be able to receive a document confirming your registration as an individual entrepreneur.

When filling out the application, you need to select and indicate a code for your future activities according to the all-Russian species classifier economic activity. To do this, you should carefully study the classifier and select all the codes that suit you this moment and those codes that you plan to use in the future.

In addition, it should be borne in mind that when registering an individual entrepreneur, the taxation system is automatically set to general. In order to change it, you must write an application to change the tax system within three days after you have registered.

The general tax system is the most labor-intensive in terms of accounting and taxes on it are quite high. For the production of colored stones, it is worth choosing a simplified taxation system (STS). It comes in two types – with and without expenses. In the first case, you will pay 15% tax on net profit, and in the second - 6%, but on the entire turnover. What is more profitable for you is up to you personally.

Technology

In order to paint crushed stone according to technology, it is enough simple devices and simple steps:

• dividing crushed stone into fractions (this stage can be avoided if you buy fractional crushed stone);
• painting crushed stone in a mixer (concrete mixer);
• drying stones.

Let us consider in more detail all stages of the technological process.

1. The first stage of the process is the division into fractions. For this purpose, special sifters are used, which must be purchased. This stage can be avoided by purchasing a certain fraction of crushed stone, but this will lead to an increase in the cost of your products. This is due to the fact that crushed stone separated into fractions costs several times more than undivided crushed stone.
2. In order to paint the stones, concrete mixers are used. The stones are loaded into a concrete mixer together with paint and mixed for 20-40 minutes. A little advice: if possible, it is worth purchasing several concrete mixers to speed up the production process. Here the question arises - “how to paint crushed stone?”, but more on that later.
3. To dry, the painted crushed stone is unloaded onto a metal grid and dried. If the production is small, then the crushed stone can be dried simply in air. When volumes increase significantly, special drying chambers or bunkers are used for drying.

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Equipment

In order to organize production, you need to buy at least a minimum set of equipment. It is imperative to buy at least one concrete mixer, and preferably several. Ideally, there should be as many concrete mixers as there are colors in color scheme the crushed stone you produce. In addition, crushed stone can be separated into fractions using manual sifting.

As mentioned, buying a sifter can be avoided, but purchasing one is highly recommended. Despite its cost, about 80 thousand rubles, it will pay for itself quickly enough. Its quick payback is due to the fact that the price of crushed stone divided and not separated into fractions differs several times.

To make the drying process faster, you can purchase a drying chamber. At first, there will be no particular need to purchase it. When you begin to expand production, then the issue of purchasing a dryer will arise. If you are making small volumes of crushed stone, then you can simply dry it in a dry, well-ventilated area.

Naturally, it is necessary to purchase small equipment such as shovels, sieves and the like. In addition, it won’t hurt to purchase work gloves and other small items.

Staff

In order to organize a mini-production for the production of painted crushed stone, it is quite possible to do without hired workers. If you do not plan to work independently, but are only going to do administrative activities, then you can’t do without workers.

With average production volumes, you will only need four employees who will work every other shift. The qualifications of the workers are practically irrelevant. Any physically strong man can load crushed stone into a concrete mixer and unload it.

Raw materials

To produce finished products, you will need to purchase raw materials. Colored crushed stone consists of crushed stone itself and dye applied to it.

It is clear that the main raw material is crushed stone. You will buy tons of it. It is advisable to carry out preliminary preparation stones, namely to wash them. This preparation will allow you to obtain a more saturated color.

It is important to remember that the stones must be dried before painting.

Dye is also a raw material, but you won’t buy tons of it, of course. In addition to the coloring pigment, you will also need a binder. PVA glue usually serves as the current binding base. Sometimes polymer paints for crushed stone are used for painting.

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Business plan

In order to open a mini-production in your garage, you will need a minimum investment. It will be enough to buy 10 tons of crushed stone, costing 15-20 thousand rubles, the dye for it will cost about 10 thousand rubles. You also cannot do without a concrete mixer, which costs about 9 thousand rubles. In addition, you will need sieves and shovels.

In general, organizing production in your own garage will cost you about 50 thousand rubles. Considering the profitability of such production, you will be able to recoup your investment in less than 3 months of work.

If you plan to open large production, then the costs could be about 900 thousand rubles. This amount includes equipment, raw materials, rent and wage workers. Such investments will pay off fairly quickly - within 6–9 months.

Room

For such an organization, in order to comply with the technology for the production of colored crushed stone, even a garage or shed is enough. All this can be organized even at home.

If you are going to engage in serious production, then you should choose premises in the industrial part of your settlement. The size of the room will depend on the scale of your production.

It is important that the premises have access to heavy vehicles and trucks. Your main raw material, crushed stone, will be delivered by heavy trucks.

It is necessary that the premises have electricity, water supply and sewerage. Electricity is better with a voltage of 380 watts.

Advertising and sales

In order for production to be profitable, it is necessary to establish sales of finished products. To achieve established sales channels, you need to make yourself known to the consumer.

Depending on production volumes, it is necessary to develop and advertising campaign. If you are planning quite big business, then you need to conduct fairly large-scale advertising. Here billboards, advertising on transport, in the media and brochures will come to your aid.

If the production is small, then it is better to work to order. To find clients, you can use a tool such as bulletin boards on the Internet. You need to create your own website.

Considering some seasonality of this business, you need to take care of orders during the so-called low season. To do this, it is worth offering your clients a service such as storage of paid goods “until demand”. This will allow production to be loaded throughout the year, and not just during the warm seasons, when people en masse are engaged in landscaping.

conclusions

The most an important component, which will ensure the quality of the finished product is paint for painting crushed stone. It is she who should be chosen quite meticulously. It must be resistant to impact ultraviolet rays, since crushed stone is mainly used outdoors.

Colored crushed stone is a new product for Russia, but demand for it is growing even in times of crisis. It is bought as commercial organizations, as well as private individuals. This stone is used in different areas activities and, according to experts, the need for it will only grow. In conditions of relatively low competition, the production of colored crushed stone is a promising area of ​​activity.

In this business plan we will tell you in detail how to organize a small factory for the production of this product, and what points to consider. The reader will also get acquainted with calculations of the payback of the business and find out how much you can earn from it.

Areas of application of colored crushed stone

Colored decorative crushed stones are fine stones obtained by crushing marble and granite chips. Most often, this material is needed for landscaping (for aesthetic purposes).

There are several areas of application of crushed stone:

• landscape design;
• improvement of city parks and territories;
• construction finishing works;
• interior design.

It is also needed to create a microclimate in aquariums and terrariums, to decorate graves in cemeteries, and to design sculptural compositions.

The stone retains its rich color for a long time, is harmless to people and animals, is resistant to weather influences and temperature changes, and does not require special care. Practicality and convenience make this material popular.

Technology and description of the production process

The technology depends on the chosen production plan. You can buy sorted gravel the right size, or you can sift it yourself. In the latter case, you need special equipment - a separator. The full cycle process for producing colored crushed stone is described below.

1. Natural stone goes to a crusher, where it is crushed into pieces of approximately the same size.
2. Crushed crushed stone enters the separator, where it is sifted into fractions of the required size. The stone must be clean and dry (this is necessary for painting).
3. Crushed stone is loaded into the painting hopper. A concrete mixer is suitable for this. It is filled halfway with stone, then poured into it acrylic paint.
4. A concrete mixer paints crushed stone. The process lasts 15-20 minutes.
5. Freshly painted stones go to a vibrating sieve, where they are dried.
6. The goods are stored in closed bins and, when sold, are packed in bags weighing 5-20 kg.

Colored crushed stone as a business: what is needed?

The main cost items when organizing a business will be equipment and wages. Raw materials are sold in tons. The cost of separated gravel is higher than the price of stone of different fractions.

Table 1. The volume of initial costs for a business producing colored crushed stone.

The calculations are relevant for a city with a population of up to 1 million people. Additional costs take into account the costs of communal payments, advertising, redecorating, an additional tool.

Documentation

You can start working as an individual or legal entity. If a businessman intends to produce and sell goods in small quantities, an individual entrepreneur will suit him ( individual entrepreneur). If he wants to produce a lot, cooperate with large companies, wholesale and retail chains, it is better to open in the form of a legal entity. entities (for example, LLC). A legal entity company can quickly reach agreements with large counterparties.

The tax system suitable for work is: UNS (15% of profit).

When registering an activity, indicate two OKVED codes: 26.70 “Cutting, processing and finishing of decorative and building stone” and 26.82 “Production of other non-metallic mineral products not included in other groups.”

Equipment

If the paint bin can be replaced with a simple concrete mixer, then for the rest production stages you need special equipment.

An entrepreneur needs to buy:

• Bunkers for raw materials and finished product. They must be closed - acrylic paint ideally applies only to a clean and dry surface.
• Separator for sifting crushed stone of the required fraction. The purchase of such equipment is an additional expense, but it is more profitable than buying sifted crushed stone. In addition, the remaining stone of the unsuitable fraction can also be sold.
• Concrete mixer for painting. For small production, a machine with a volume of 0.7 cubic meters is suitable. m.
• Vibrating sieve for drying.
• Bag stitching machine.

It is worth buying additional tools - shovels, paint, the bags themselves.

Staff

Production does not require many workers. For one shift, 3 people are enough, one of whom will become a senior worker. These people will work in production, loading and unloading, and warehousing. Making colored crushed stone is a simple job and does not require highly specialized knowledge.

The shop manager will also receive finished goods and supervise other workers.

Naturally, 3 people are enough only in the first stages. As sales/production increases, more people will be needed.

We need a driver with his own car - he will deliver goods to customers and retail chains.

The reporting will be handled by an accountant, who can be hired part-time or outsourced (remotely).

Raw materials

The initial raw material for production is gravel. There are several types of this material. The most significant criterion is the size of the stones.

1. The 5-10 mm fraction is considered the smallest and is used in commerce. It is necessary for the production of concrete mixtures.
2. The 10-20 mm fraction is the most popular; gravel of this size is required in construction and when covering road surfaces, coverings of bridges and airfields.
3. The 20-40 mm fraction is used when creating railway and road tracks, tram lines, production of reinforced concrete structures.

Manufacturers of colored crushed stone are interested in gravel measuring 10-30 mm. Moreover, smaller ones are in use; they paint better.

Considering the weather conditions in Russia, the stone must be frost and moisture resistant. If these qualities are present, gravel will last longer and retain its properties even with heavy rainfall and sudden temperature changes.

Room

To produce colored crushed stone, a room of approximately 150 square meters is required. m. A third of this area will be occupied by a workshop with equipment installed in it. Here you need to equip good system ventilation. During staining, vapors are formed that should be removed immediately. There should also be good electricity, water and heating.

Warehouses should maintain a dry and warm atmosphere. Low humidity is one of the mandatory conditions, since raw materials and goods ready for sale are stored here.

Before entering the mini-plant, it is necessary to equip a transport access for unloading raw materials and loading colored crushed stone.

You can look for such premises on the outskirts of the city or in industrial areas where rent is cheaper.

Advertising and sales

To find the main channels for promoting colored crushed stone, you need to identify potential buyers. Who needs this stone? The following groups of clients can be distinguished:

• design companies (including landscape designers);
• marketing agencies;
• pet stores;
• housing and communal services;
• funeral services;
• private individuals (amateur gardeners).

Make your website with a catalog and good product images. Organize mailings to agencies and services, print business cards and bring them to pet stores. Order advertising in newspapers and magazines. Good way advertising - printing and posting simple advertisements in the private sector of your city, in cottage villages.

Financial calculations: profitability and payback

The amount of initial costs is 1.870 million rubles.

In an 8-hour shift, 1.5 tons of colored crushed stone can be produced. According to the plan, the plant will operate one shift 22 days a month. Under such conditions, it is realistic to produce 33 tons of goods.

The average price for 1 kg of crushed stone is 30-35 rubles. You can promote your product through price dumping, setting the price at 25 rubles/kg. By selling all the products produced in a month, you can get 825 thousand rubles.

The total monthly costs will be 540 thousand rubles.

Net profit will be 285 thousand rubles.

A business on colored crushed stone can pay for itself in 6.5 months. Although it is unlikely that the new enterprise will be able to sell all the goods produced in a month. Seasonality also needs to be taken into account. So the payback period can easily increase to one and a half years.

Table 2. Economic justification business ideas.

Business risks

An entrepreneur must take into account the risks of this crushed stone business. Colored crushed stone is used mainly for landscaping open areas. Such work is done only in the warm season.

Due to the long winter, the main risk of the crushed stone production business arises - the threat of long “downtime”. In Russia, only 6-7 months are suitable for active construction. The rest of the year is too cold. This affects the demand for crushed stone - it decreases by 10-60% depending on the region.

However, this time can be used usefully, for example, by preparing goods for the beginning of spring and concluding contracts for further deliveries.

A business can be structured in such a way that during the cold season you can acquire connections, fully load your enterprise with work, and carry out sales during the warm season. This will allow you to quickly break even and start receiving net profit. Colored crushed stone as a business with a competent approach guarantees a stable income to its owner.