In 2016, the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation took a series of decisions that, on the one hand, supported the state company Rosatom, and on the other, gave impetus to the development of the composite industry in Russia. , said Alexei, head of the state company Rosatom Likhachev. At that time, according to him, the ratio of imported components to Russian components was not in favor of domestic production. But over the years, Rosatom’s component division’s revenue has increased by 15 times and 100% import substitution has been achieved.
Alexei Likhachev, president of Rosatom, noted at a plenary meeting dedicated to the future of the domestic composites industry in the face of new challenges and opportunities, that in the 1970s Russia was engaged in composites for centrifuges where uranium ores were enriched. Competencies were partially lost in the 90s. In “Zero”, two enterprises were included in the core lines of the nuclear industry, but these were technologies of the last century.
After 2016, the composite industry began to develop in Russia in a separate division of the Yumatex company Rosatom.
“We are now on a different level. Today, if we use composite solutions, we get huge savings on a range of products, both civilian and private,” he said.
Likhachev emphasized that a new roadmap was signed last year confirming new tasks for the industry: “maximum movement towards certain end products, access to new attributes of a closed production cycle on its own component basis and a new generation of composite workers”.
It was also announced at the forum that a new production facility for the production of wind blades was established jointly with the Ulyanovsk region.
Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Yevtukhov, who attended the plenary meeting, talked about state support for the production of composite materials. According to him, more than 150 projects are currently being implemented for the production of composite materials with a total investment of more than 160 billion rubles.
He added that state support for R&D continues. Noting that when implementing large projects, composite materials are included in the list, he suggested using a cluster investment platform, a new financial instrument where “good conditions are created for raising funds at an effective interest rate for a certain period of time.” products in demand.
Source: Gazeta
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