YEREVAN. - Armenia wants to certify light and strong basalt dielectric.

Director of Onix GC CJSC, Gagik Kiarkosyan, told Armenian News – NEWS.am that the construction pipes from basalt fiber, which are produced by the company, are now tested at Energonaladka CJSC of the Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources Ministry of Armenia.

The samples endured 600 volt on 1 mm—potential in case of which even the air becomes a conductor. The results were the same after the samples remained in the water for two days, Kirakosyan noted.

The construction pipes, from which it is possible to assemble joists and covers, are produced by pultrusion method, which is new not only in Armenia but also its four neighboring states.

Unlike metals, the basalt-based constructions are not subjected to corrosion. They are by four times lighter than steel and twice more solid in terms of stretching.

''We thus produce metal, which can be used beyond the atmosphere of the earth. The instruction to find such a material was given back in the late 60s by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. The Soviet scientists and constructors agreed on basalt constructions. And now they are completely produced in Armenia by several companies, including ours. Of course, we are not its only producers in the world, but according to the regional criteria, our technology is new,'' he noted. 

After the certification of the pultrusion construction materials from basalt, the company plans to turn for the development of construction norms (contruction rules and regulations, also known as SNiPs) to use them in construction.

''Russia doesn't have SniPs for such materials either, although such materials are made there. But we want to turn for adopting these norms at EAEU level to be able to export there more easily,'' Kirakosyan concluded.