Motorica is a company dedicated to the research and development of advanced technologies in medicine and robotics, specializing in the production of functional upper limb prostheses for everyday use. The company designs prosthetic devices that enhance hand movements for individuals with disabilities, utilizing innovative technology that reads electrical signals from muscle contractions. These signals are processed by a microprocessor that facilitates movement, allowing users to maneuver their forearms and wrists with ease. Motorica collaborates with both individuals and public and private prosthetic enterprises and is a resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, working alongside various international organizations in the prosthetics field.
Dauria Aerospace focuses on the development and manufacturing of next-generation, low-cost small satellites, utilizing advanced terrestrial microelectronics and micro-system technologies. The company aims to make satellite constellations financially viable, enabling operational services and new applications across various sectors. Plans include deploying constellations for earth observation and communications, which will support frequent vegetation monitoring for precision farming, traffic management, urban planning, and polar broadband services. Dauria collaborates with national governments for joint financing of these projects, allowing private investments to cover a broader range of services. Additionally, the company is enhancing its offerings through CloudEO, a cloud-based platform that integrates data, software, and processing capabilities to provide affordable geo-services. CloudEO fosters a collaborative ecosystem, enabling various stakeholders, from data providers to service users, to partner effectively and stimulate a growing market for commercial geo-applications. The beta version of CloudEO's Geo-Infrastructure Services, including the CloudEO Workbench and Store, is being released to selected users, with a full launch planned soon.
DSK Grad LLC is a high-tech design and manufacturing company based in Naro-Fominsk, Russia, specializing in prefabricated residential construction units. Established in 2014, it is the first national-scale manufacturer of such units to emerge in the Russian market in three decades. DSK Grad distinguishes itself by integrating advanced international technologies and innovative solutions developed by RUSNANO into its production processes. The company utilizes specialized materials, including paints and concrete plasticizers from established partners, to enhance the quality and efficiency of its products. DSK Grad aims to set new standards in the construction industry by demonstrating that innovative technologies can improve product quality while reducing costs, particularly through savings on transportation and maintenance of prefabricated buildings. Its commitment to employing nanotechnology in construction underscores its role as a pioneer in the sector.
SBT Management is a prominent Russian manufacturer specializing in the design and production of wireless communication systems. Utilizing advanced 90/40-nanometer processors, the company develops a range of equipment for wireless networks, including low- and medium-speed radio-relay devices, antenna systems, and mobile radio networks. SBT employs state-of-the-art measurement, laboratory, testing, and manufacturing technologies sourced from leading international suppliers. In addition to its product offerings, the company provides tailored development services for various clients, including manufacturing firms, research institutions, design organizations, and telecom network integrators. Through its commitment to innovation, SBT delivers comprehensive wireless solutions for diverse applications, such as transport systems, terminals, processors, chips, and aerial equipment.
MAPPER Lithography B.V. develops lithography machines for the chip industry. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Delft, the Netherlands.
AQUANOVA is a Russian industrial manufacturer specializing in the production of NovaSOL® solubilizates, which are nanoparticle-based additives. Utilizing advanced technology from Germany, AQUANOVA encapsulates active organic substances within micelles approximately 30 nanometers in diameter. This innovative approach enhances the effectiveness of natural components while optimizing economic performance by significantly reducing the quantity of costly natural substances required in final products, such as food ingredients, by three to five times without compromising functionality. The company's product range includes complex additives for the food industry and active substances for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors, which incorporate antioxidants, vitamin complexes, preservatives, nutrients, natural dyes, and oils. AQUANOVA operates a fully automated and high-tech production facility to ensure the quality and consistency of its offerings.
ICM Glass Kaluga specializes in the production of heat-insulating materials using a nanotechnological approach to process unsorted cullet. The company manufactures foam glass, a novel material for the Russian market, which offers unique thermophysical and operational characteristics. Foam glass is recognized for its wide temperature range of application, impermeability to vapor and water, non-flammability, size stability, high strength, and resistance to aggressive substances, including acids, as well as to rodents and insects. This innovative material is essential for construction and industrial engineering projects, serving as a universal particulate for thermal insulation, thus facilitating the creation of heat-insulated homes and chambers.
PET provide the PET centers with the radiopharmaceuticals, the project company will establish production of isotope 18O and organize two cyclotron sites—in Lipetsk and Ufa—for production of short-lived isotopes. PET is used for the diagnosis of cancers, including diagnosis in early stages, and for diagnosis and treatment in cardiology and neurology. Radiopharmaceuticals are selectively absorbed by tumor tissues and tissues whose metabolic activity is high. By combining into one instrument the functions of PET and computer tomography, benefits of both ensue—a three-dimensional picture of functional changes in tissue overlays a high-resolution image of the patient’s organs. PET diagnostics identify 18 percent more tumors in early stages, significantly improving prognoses and decreasing mortality.
Nearmedic is a pharmaceutical company focused on the production and development of antiviral medications, particularly emphasizing its flagship product, Kagocel. This antiviral drug, available over the counter, leverages a unique formulation that combines a plant-based molecule with a nanosized polymer carrier, enhancing its pharmacological activity while minimizing toxicity. Nearmedic is in the process of establishing a new GMP-compliant manufacturing facility, which will allow it to transition away from rented production spaces and significantly increase its manufacturing capabilities. This expansion aims to strengthen its market position in Russia and the CIS. In addition to Kagocel, Nearmedic is involved in the full-cycle production of nanomedicines, as well as the development of diagnostic kits and laboratory equipment, contributing to advancements in patient health and treatment options for various viral infections, including flu and herpes.
Thermointech specializes in thermoelectric products and solutions, focusing on both ready-made and custom-developed systems. The company operates a technology platform dedicated to the synthesis of thermoelectric materials and the full automation of their production processes. By leveraging innovative technologies, Thermointech provides clients with high-quality products and services in the field of nanotechnology, specifically related to thermoelectric materials and coatings. Their offerings aim to deliver efficient and cost-effective solutions tailored to meet various client needs.
RU-VEM LLC is a Russian developer working in two directions: vacuum equipment and technologies and energy saving based on variable frequency drives. We carry out a full cycle of works: production, design and service. RU-VEM units are manufactured using one technology platform. Each unit is equipped with an integrated modem for transmission of data to support services in the event of malfunctioning and for online tuning. The company also produces a line of vacuum units for deposition of various modified coatings: anticorrosive, wear-resistant, strengthening, and other coatings. As part of the project, the RU-VEM plans to open a center where it will update existing vacuum equipment, develop new equipment, and develop new deposition methods by order.
Nanolek is a Russian biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and production of high-quality medicines and vaccines that adhere to GMP standards. The company focuses on creating import-substituting drugs aimed at addressing socially significant diseases, particularly in the Russian healthcare market. Its product portfolio includes vaccines and medications for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases such as whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, and illnesses caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b. Additionally, Nanolek is involved in the localization of drugs produced by global pharmaceutical companies, further contributing to the country's healthcare needs.
Nanoelectro specializes in the manufacturing of advanced nanostructured electrical cables designed for electrotechnical applications. The company produces up to 50 tons of ultradurable cable annually, utilizing a unique production process that involves melting and serially assembling bimetallic rough-forged materials. These materials undergo deformation to incorporate niobic fibers ranging from 6 nm to 10 nm in thickness into a copper matrix, resulting in composite wires that can contain up to 400 million fibers in a 2×3 mm cross section. This innovative structure provides exceptional mechanical durability, with tensile strength between 1,000 MPa and 1,200 MPa, while maintaining electrical conductivity levels of 65 percent to 85 percent of ultrapure copper. Nanoelectro has attracted significant interest from both Russian and international companies seeking to purchase its advanced superwire products.
RUSALOX is a high-tech company based in Moscow, Russia, specializing in the development and manufacturing of circuit plates and substrates with high thermal conductivity. Founded in 2010, RUSALOX utilizes a unique aluminum oxide technology that enhances cooling efficiency for heat-dissipating electronic components. Their product offerings include multilayer and one-layer plates, as well as heat-conducting substrates designed for various applications, such as Chip-On-Board technologies, microwave electronics, and advanced packaging systems. The company's innovative substrates feature a patented design that combines an insulating layer on a metal core with a circuit layer, resulting in superior heat dissipation compared to traditional organic PCBs. This allows for high-density integration of electronic components on a single substrate, addressing the increasing challenges of heat generation in multifunctional electronics. RUSALOX's products are noted for their competitive pricing and performance, comparable to standard ceramics.
Neutron Technologies commercialize pioneering work by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Explosives and Narcotics Detectors, both of Dubna, Russia, in the use of labeled neutrons for identifying explosives and narcotics. Several leading research centers and governmental agencies—the All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics, the Bochvar All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Inorganic Materials, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, and others—contributed to product development and will continue to play a role as need for new products evolves.
RMT Ltd. is a manufacturer based in Moscow, Russia, specializing in the development and production of thermoelectric cooling (TEC) modules and devices for optoelectronic applications. The company offers a broad range of over 2,000 miniature thermoelectric coolers designed for various sectors, including telecommunications, industrial, medical, and aerospace. RMT's product lineup includes TEC modules, micro cooling sub-mounts, TEC controllers, diagnostic devices, and optical gas analyzers, as well as software for optimizing cooling solutions. RMT is noted for its commitment to quality, holding ISO 9001 certification, and is the only Russian company certified by the Russian State Space Agency to provide thermoelectric coolers for aerospace applications. With additional sales operations in Berlin and China, RMT aims to deliver high-quality standard and customized cooling solutions while ensuring superior customer service.
Profotech specializes in the production of advanced fiber-optic systems designed for measuring energy consumption and enhancing power grid protection. The company integrates nanofibers into its fiber-optic current and voltage sensors, which allows for innovative solutions tailored to the power sector and other energy-intensive industries. By utilizing nanosized quartz ribs within a load-bearing quartz sheath, Profotech's technology offers superior performance characteristics compared to traditional products. This focus on domestic production aims to replace imported equipment with locally manufactured alternatives that provide better consumer properties, ultimately enhancing efficiency in energy management.
HemaCore, founded in 2010, is a biotech company dedicated to the development and implementation of innovative in vitro diagnostic technologies for hemostasis, specifically through its thrombodynamics assay. This advanced coagulation test provides clinicians with clear and reliable assessments of patients' coagulation states, enabling the effective management of bleeding and thrombosis risk. By creating instant-diagnostic devices, HemaCore addresses blood-clotting disorders that can lead to serious health complications such as heart attacks and strokes. The company's focus on developing efficient diagnostic tools enhances the capabilities of healthcare practitioners in delivering timely and effective patient care.
Microbor Composite Co. specializes in the development and manufacturing of advanced composite materials, specifically Cubic Boron Nitride (CBN) and Nano Cubic Boron Nitride (NCBN). As the first global producer of commercial tools made from NCBN, the company offers products that exceed the strength of synthetic diamond while maintaining excellent temperature and wear resistance. Microbor's cutting tools are designed for precision and quality, catering to various geometries and sizes of interchangeable soldered and monolithic plates for turning and milling applications. This innovation enables businesses to enhance accuracy in their machining processes.
Plakart provides industrial customers with services and ready-made solutions for applying multipurpose nanostructured coatings that are thermal-barrier, wear-resistant, and corrosion-resistant. Through a network of centers, the company specializes in anticorrosive and wear-proof coatings using materials like metal, ceramics, and metal ceramics. These coatings are designed to protect various structures and equipment, including drilling platforms, bridges, and steel structures, from corrosion and wear. Plakart also offers equipment for thermal spraying, cladding, and spare parts and accessories. The use of robotized equipment and metallurgical labs ensures strict quality control, enabling the production of coatings with specific properties such as hardness, porosity, and adhesion.
Rosana specializes in the production of natural proteins and peptides for use in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and biotechnology products. The company operates modern processing plants that are equipped with advanced technology, ensuring high-performance deep processing of animal raw materials. Rosana's offerings include specialized food products and fodders, such as functional meat proteins and functional feather keratins, aimed at providing customers with premium products at competitive prices.
Membranium is a Russian company specializing in the production of nanostructured membrane flat-sheets and elements used in various water purification technologies, including reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, and ultrafiltration. The company focuses on enhancing the efficiency of pure water production through advanced membrane technologies. Its products feature specialized pores that facilitate the provision of clean and safe drinking water while reducing costs associated with water purification. By prioritizing quality and innovation, Membranium aims to elevate national membrane science and technology on the global stage, ensuring access to ultraclean, salt-free water that is free from harmful microbes.
Micron" is the largest manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics in Russia, the center of expertise and the technological leader of the Russian semiconductor industry. Micron produces more than 700 product types, including integrated circuits for secured data carriers, identification, payment and transport documents, power management and RFID marking for various sectors of the digital economy.
METACLAY manufactures new-generation modified layered nanosilicates, masterbatches, and polymer nanocompositesProduction of new-generation modified layered nanosilicates, masterbatches, and polymer nanocomposites Basis of the technology used for production of polymer nanocomposites includes inventions of Russian scientists from leading scientific organizations of the country: A. V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, RAS (TIPS RAS), Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, RAS, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, Lomonosov Moscow State University and D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Metaclay’s coverings increase service length of metal pipes by half: up to 60-80 years, improve their persistency and durability at extreme temperatures (from -60ºС to +80ºС), decrease gas permeability as well as prevent material damage under solar radiation influence. Test of Gazprom VNIIGAZ confirmed that such coverings may be effectively used for the large-diameter pipes for main gas pipeline construction. Metaclay’s coverings, used among other things, in production of pipes at the Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, apply for anticorrosion protection of the Power of Siberia Gas Pipeline. The Company also plans to certify the use of pipes with nano-coating in the projects of Transneft and Rosneft. Due to technological advantages and low cost of Metaclay’s products it has become possible to put significant competitive pressure on foreign players in the Russian market, first of all Borealis Company. For this purpose import three-layer insulation was used. One-layer coatings of Metaclay are more cost-efficient (while saving protective and performance characteristics), because less equipment is used in application.
Advanced Technologies Center manufactures analytical instruments for research in materials science, biology, and medicine. Production of high-precision sensors for analyses of chemical and biological substances. dvanced Technologies Center manufactures the FemtoScan series of scanning probe microscopes—precision instruments that use the mechanical movement of a probe (cantilever) to study the surface of an object. The microscopes are precise to about one nanometer. ATC also produces atomic scales that can register the presence of particles of various substances at the level of individual atoms. One promising application of these scales is as quick-response biosensors. The company has established an R&D center where it will conduct research to perfect technology, carry out engineering development, and test prototypes and models. The center will supply software to work in instrument-managing and image-processing modes. The scanning probe microscopes that ATC produces are capable of more than 50 sophisticated research regimes—contact atomic force microscopy, resonance atomic force microscopy, scanning frictional microscopy, scanning resistance microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, electrostatic microscopy, magnetic force microscopy, force curve analysis, and nanolithography among them. Combining compact size with powerful software packages, ATC instruments can be accessed through the Internet with open architecture.
RUSCHEMBIO is providing russian nanoindustry scientists and other professionals access to reagents, disposables, and equipment. RUSCHEMBIO was one of the early projects in which RUSNANO coinvested. During two full years of operations, the company-warehouse has organized an outstanding and extremely broad assortment of reagents and developed an extensive system of express deliveries. It also became one of the first portfolio companies to turn a profit. RUSCHEMBIO will open new branches and warehouses in Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, and Stavropol. It will develop its own brand and catalog for sale of products from Russian manufacturers. And it will broaden the product assortment by including independent nanoproducers, helping them promote their goods in the market.
NTpharma provides GMP production of nanovaccines and biopharmaceuticals containing carbohydrate binders. The project provides for building a facility for production of vaccines and pharmaceuticals in the municipal area of Pereslavl’-Zalessky, 150 kilometers (85 miles) northeast of Moscow. The project aims at production of new generation vaccines, including a polyvalent human flu vaccine, and pharmaceuticals for detoxification in oncological therapy and for treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease). NTpharma’s technology allows to reduce by half the time required for culturing and production of the vaccine. This advantage is vital when dealing with vaccines for pandemic flu strains spreading rapidly all over the world.
Bebig is a preparation and packaging of microsources for brachytherapy using isotope. Brachytherapy is a form of radiotherapy for malignant tumors in which the radiation source is placed within the affected organ. The optimal dose of radiation is delivered directly to the tumor without exposing adjacent tissues and organs. Brachytherapy is used extensively worldwide; it has been used in 800 medical centers in the United States and Western Europe for over 14 years. This project will establish domestic production of microsources, titanium capsules containing a gold wire (x-ray marker) and radionuclide 125I (iodine-125) in the form of silver iodide whose surface has been modified for better ultrasound visualization. Portfolio company will also produce nanostructured microspheres of polymer, glass, or silicon particles that incorporate atoms of radioactive isotopes. Their diameters are about 30 microns. Microsources produced by the project will be used to treat prostate, liver, and pancreatic cancers. Prostate cancer is one of the most common diseases in the country. There are more than 2.5 million cancer patients in Russia for whom effective treatment is essential. The project has high social significance.
Germanium is a vertically integrated production of germanium-based products: disks, bars, plates, and spherical blanks for lenses. Germanium and Applications launched new hightechnology production of electro-optical components in Novomoskovsk, in Tula Oblast. The plant is equipped with advanced measuring tools and other state-of-the-art equipment, like the numerically controlled machinery for preparing spheres and equipment to fine grind and polish optical lenses and substrates. Production of germanium and germanium-containing components is part of a large-scale manufacturing complex belonging to Germanium and Applications that is being expanded with RUSNANO. Germaniumrich coal is extracted at the company’s mines in Primorsky Krai. A few kilometers from the coal field, the company has introduced a unique process for manufacturing germanium concentrate.