Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, spoke on Monday about the production of high-purity neon during a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the government. This has been reported DEA News”.
The Minister informed the meeting participants that on July 25, on the basis of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, a full-scale production of high-purity neon was launched. According to him, the MSTU team completed the task set by the authorities in just 3.5 months.
As the Deputy Prime Minister pointed out, gas is critical to the world’s microchip-making microelectronics factories.
“The new plants will use Russian raw materials produced at the air separation plants of metallurgical enterprises. Today, Russia produces more than 30% of the world’s neon-helium mix. At the Baumanka site, we plan to initially produce around 70,000 cubic meters of neon per year, which corresponds to about 10% of the global market.”
He also stated that it is planned to increase production to 180 thousand cubic meters in 2023. I am neon. Deputy Prime Minister added that from now on, Russia will be able to meet about 25% of the world’s needs.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Manturov visited Bauman Moscow State Technical University on Monday and took part in the launch of production. He also became acquainted with the technological process to obtain pure xenon and krypton, and studied storage systems for noble gases.
It was previously reported that Russia. limited export of inert gases.