From Africa to the Arctic: where inventions of Tomsk SEZ were useful

TOMSK, Apr 26 – RIA Tomsk. Residents of the Tomsk special economic zone (SEZ) in 10 years of work have managed to achieve a lot: to begin deliveries of wound healing bandages to Africa and Gulf States, to create system of a radio communication for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and to begin work on autonomous meteorological stations for the Arctic … The more distinguished companies of the Tomsk SEZ – in the RIA Tomsk material.

Tomsk SEZ, one of the five technology-innovative zones of the Russian Federation, was officially opened on April 26, 2006. Currently, SEZ residents are 67 companies; the main directions of their activity - IT and electronics, medicine and biotechnology, nanotechnologies and new materials, energy saving technologies. Since 2005, they produced products to 8.3 billion rubles, it is exported to 145 countries.

800 joints per year

One of the oldest residents of the SEZ – "MOJE Keramik-Implantate" ("daughter" of the German MOJE Keramik-Implantate GmbH&Co.KG). The company makes endoprostheses of small joints (fingers of a brush, foot, wrist), and also dental implants and intervertebral disks from zircon-oxidic ceramics.

"Our revenue (in 2014) was 20 million rubles, and now (following the results of 2015) – 25 million, it is the growth in rubles, but in dollars have even not reached a last year's indicator. But we work with positive, we gather experience, we develop new types of production", – the director of the company Anatoly Karlov has told RIA Tomsk.

He has added that last year the company has let out joints for 800 operations. This year their number is supposed to be finished approximately to 1,6 thousand. Tomsk implants are applied in many regions of the Russian Federation, experimental operations in India, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are successfully performed, tests are carried out and registration of endoprostheses in the USA is planned.

At the same time, according to Karlov, in a priority of the company – to increase presence in the Russian Federation market. Besides, in the next years the company plans to begin production of implants for replacement of large joints.

"Opticians" for robots

CJSC "Elecard Devices" – one of the oldest and most famous in Tomsk innovative companies - is working in a part of the SEZ since 2010. The company for its activities engaged in the development, production and sale of software and hardware for digital television.

In particular, its digital set-top boxes were demanded both in the Russian Federation, and abroad, and the SEZ helped to bring the goods for export. But because the price of import analogs was lower, production couldn't keep for a long time in the market.

According to the head of the company Victor Shirshin, now the company in this segment was reoriented on the consoles helping to measure a rating of broadcast; the price of "Elecard" devices is lower, than at similar devices. They are bought by the profile companies, in particular, to the countries of Europe and Latin America.

Creation of systems of technical sight became one of the new areas of work of the company in recent years. And experts of "Elecard Devices" work on such a system which will allow the robot to see the same way as a human, through the video image. Such a technology can be demanded, for example, for unmanned aerial vehicles or cars with the autopilot.

"Due to original algorithms we plan to make the system more effective at smaller consumption of capacities. <…> For example, for the full movement of the car on an automatic pilot it is possible to lay additional infrastructure, but these are huge expenses. And if to teach the car to be guided as a human, then there is no necessity for modernization. It will be able to define signs, a marking, to go round obstacles", – Shirshin has specified.

Bandage for Africa and Asia

The "Akvelit" company specializes, in particular, in production of wound healing bandages which are developed by Institute of physics of durability and materials science of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science.

The wound healing bandage influences the infected wound by a physical method, without use of antibiotics. It as the magnet, takes away from a wound microorganisms due to effect of electropositive sorption. As a result, wound can be healed quicker, there is almost no hem left, and the bandage doesn't cause accustoming or an allergy and can be removed without serious consequences.

According to the director of the company Natalya Kirillova, to the bandages existing earlier (for treatment of burn, purulent and chronic wounds, the part from which was for professional, and part – for household application) were added professional medical materials for dental application and gynecologic disks. For 2015 the company has delivered about 500 thousand bandages, including – for approbation.

She has noted that now in bandages of "Akvelit" are interested in Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, India, South Africa, and recently potential partners from Australia were contacted with the company. Besides, in 2015 "Akvelit" has signed the contract with the company from the United Arab Emirates through which it plans to arrange deliveries to Gulf States.

Against thieves and fires

The Stels scientific and production enterprise which makes "intellectual" systems of protection and the fire alarm system became the first resident of the SEZ which has constructed and put own case in operation. In the case the office of the company and production lines allowing to release up to 150 thousand devices a year were located.

The press service of the company has noted that security stations and systems of fire monitoring "Stealth" are used in the Russian Federation and abroad. In particular, the Tomsk equipment has equipped objects of Sberbank across all Russia: it is recommended for application in this organization for protection of personnel, ATMs, terminals, pavilions and other objects.

"Thanks to a number of own unique technologies, "Stealth" production holds technological leadership in the Russian market of security systems among systems for the centralized protection of professional level. Separate technical solutions still have no analogs in the market of security systems", – have noted in the press service.

"Microwave" for asphalt

LLC "EcoDor" (the enterprise of an innovative belt of Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building) in 2010 has got a grant on creation of energy saving installation for repair of asphalt concrete coverings with use of energy of ultrahigh frequencies.

In other words, the staff of the company creates peculiar "microwave" which will evenly warm a roadbed, without damaging it and facilitating repair work. The Russian road builders don't apply yet of such technology, though it is known that its use does repair is more better. In Europe asphalt is warmed, however for this purpose is using infrared elements which burn out the top part of a cloth.

Work on "microwave" is conducted in parallel with development of mixes for repair of roads which are suitable for conditions of Siberia and northern regions. Pilot lots of mix were already tested by road builders of the Kemerovo, Irkutsk and Tomsk regions, and also the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.

"Mixes are suitable for maintenance – for example, eliminations of holes up to five square meters. On tests we applied it at minus 25-30 degrees, the main thing is not to make that mix frozen ahead of time", – the director of the company Alexander Bazilevich has told RIA Tomsk.

Now the company has begun construction of the laboratory and production case on the SEZ Southern platform where it plans to arrange production of both mixes, and microwave installations.

"Predictor" of weather

LLC "Sibanalitpribor" – is the enterprise which is engaged in a putting to the market and a mass production of the devices created thanks to scientists of Institute of monitoring of climatic and ecological systems (IMCES) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science.

The company was included into the SEZ of Tomsk with the project of portable meteorological complexes. The ultrasonic meteorological stations developed by Tomsk scientists differ in compactness (find room in an army backpack), small weight – only 1,5 kilograms, and also an opportunity to work independently (some models do without service within a year).

One sensor can determine at the same time force and the direction of wind, turbulent characteristics, air temperature, humidity, pressure and other parameters.

According to the deputy director of "Sibanalitpribor" Vladimir Korolkov, main "client" of the company is the Russian army – representatives of any troops need to understand what weather waits for them soon. Besides, special devices are developed for the Arctic.

The equipment of the Tomsk company is installed on spaceports - at Baikonur it works in the skilled mode, at the Vostochny spaceport enters into complex system of meteorological observation.

"At the spaceport the main thing that is required from the equipment, – is the reliability. But the same is required also for military meteocomplexes. Therefore both to troops and to the spaceport there are devices manufactured on the same technologies", – have marked out Reguluses.

Heavy-duty houses

"Stroytekhinnovation TDSK" (STI TDSK) – the only resident of the Tomsk SEZ which specializes in construction technologies. In particular, specialists of the company together with the scientists of Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building (TSUAB) have developed a complex of technologies for construction of high-rise buildings with high parameters of energy efficiency and seismostability – up to 9 points.

Scientists have created technology at which the vibration going from the earth is extinguished by the special rubber-metal layer located between the base and other part of the house and also thanks to an internal design of walls. The first house on this technology is planned to be built in Tomsk in 2017.

Besides, in STI TDSK the technology of express construction is developed: it assumes construction of houses from constructive elements, factory fabricated. At the heart of technology – new knots of interfaces of elements of a framework (columns and crossbars) which at the expense of the design provide the accuracy and convenience of installation that allows to build quickly qualitative houses in any weather conditions.

In April, 2015 own case of the company on the SEZ Southern platform has been put into operation. It was supposed that it will become corporate R&D-центром of head enterprise – Tomsk House-Building Company (TDSK) where resource-saving technologies of construction and new building materials will be developed and implemented.

The catalyst for pampers

LLC "NIOST" – is the structure of the largest petrochemical holding of Russia "SIBUR". For last 10 years specialists of the company have developed dozens of new brands of polypropylene and polyethylene for production sites of holding. Part of materials – are phthalate free, so – harmless to environment.

"Such property as a phthalate free is more and more demanded by consumers in the European Union countries. <…> (In a portfolio of "SIBUR" have appeared) polypropylene brands, for example, for the "nonwoven fabrics" segment which are applied in production of personal hygiene means, are used in the medical purposes at production of pampers, medical disposable clothes", – have specified in the press service of the company.

It is noted that the phthalate free property is set to polymer in the course of its synthesis. Especially for release of such brands on three platforms of holding where polypropylene is issued, – in Tomsk, Tobolsk and Moscow – with participation of experts NIOST phthalate free catalysts have been introduced.

Handheld transceivers for the UN and the airports

The software of Tomsk "Elcom +" is used for the production of Motorola Solutions company which lets out systems of a technological radio communication. The Tomsk software allows to expand functionality of the equipment: to define location, to write down negotiations, to contact one object or the whole group.

Thus, the "Elcom +" software is used by the divisions of the UN delivering food in zones of emergency situations worldwide, intelligence agencies of Chile and Thailand, at the airports of Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Belgrade and Miami, and was even applied at several stadiums during the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

The CEO of the Tomsk company Evgeny Teplyakov has told RIA Tomsk that this year "Elcom +" is planning to enter the markets of North America – the USA and Canada.

All-seeing eye

Tomsk "subsidiary" of the Moscow Lianozovo Electromechanical Plant, a resident of Tomsk Special Economic Zone LLC "LEMZ-T" is engaged in development of "an intellectual stuffing" for its control systems of air traffic. The algorithms developed in Tomsk allow to accelerate considerably work of system and to make it more precisely, having reduced the level of hindrances, and also to increase range of work of a radar.

"It's both civil radar, and military. Very big order was during the Olympic Games in Sochi. The entire Caucasus ridge, the entire coast of the entire Sochi were closed by our radars. On several echelons it has been blocked. And our experts were on duty there as this is our software. Now they are (radar) in many regions", – the director of the company Yury Svetlichny has told.

Besides, the software of "LEMZ-T" has allowed to create the first meteoradar which "sees" turbulence. Several years it is established in the different cities of Russia.

"It (meteoradar) allows to look through in different directions on 500 kilometers air space on existence of storm streams, to define – what it is: a storm, cumulonimbus cloud, with the hail or with the snow. And it much increases forecast accuracy. In Russia there were no such equipment before", – Svetlichny has told.

According to him, such accuracy managed to be reached thanks to the special probing signals which, being reflected from meteoeducations, allow to receive a real picture, and to Tomsk algorithms of processing which with high precision distinguish the necessary signal from hindrances.