More than a year working in the audiovisual record of the new documentary by Andres Brignardello "KPD" which chronicles the intense life of the factory building the Soviet Union won the people of Chile in 1971 and which arose several people in Valparaiso and its surroundings.
KPD Factory was one of the few initiatives that could be concretized in economic agreements concluded between Chile and the USSR for the government de Allende. The company KPD was a donation by the Soviet Union in the framework of cooperation agreements and technical assistance following the earthquake of 1971.
The factory was designed to build pre-cast concrete panels for the social housing program of the Ministry of Housing. The factory was immediately known by the community as KPD KMA Russian acronym meaning " construction with large panels."
system structural construction was a concrete base panels together in steel bars, the bond between concrete filled panels are producing a rigid and homogeneous. The Soviet engineers developed a process of molding concrete line that allowed the rapid production and high standards of quality in constructed panels. The installation was completed in January 1973 and by July the first buildings were built 48 apartments in the town where the industry operated.
KPD was able to produce about 153 apartment buildings in Quilpué Valparaiso, Viña del Mar and Santiago, and was designed to produce annually 140.000.-m2 living area, estimated at 1,600 apartments per year capacity by the Soviets and professional Chilean workers trained in production. Each block had 16 apartments, 6 three-bedrooms (84 m2 .) And 10 apartments with 2 bedrooms (about 67.m2). To date, no other system has exceeded this annual production, and the area allocated to each department. In the factory Belloto 300 people worked in 2 shifts of 12 hours. To make the panels, while another 400 workers were employed at different locations raising the buildings.
After the military coup, the Russians were expelled from Chile and the company continued to operate in an unstable manner until 1978 when it was closed permanently.
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