Here are five more companies from the Forbes rating of Top 10 Russian enterprises that thrive in the global electronic market. Read about the Top 5 here.

6. Innolume

Founders: Alexey Kovsh, Daniil Livshits and their colleagues in  science

Establishmed in: 2003

Headquarters: Dortmund, Germany

Production: semiconductor chips, modules and systems for laser industry

Scope of application: laser equipment, and medicine

Customers: Hewlett-Packard

Investors: S-Group Venchures

History: In the early 2000s Alexey Kovsh, Daniil Livshits and their colleagues left for Dortmund to arrange hi-tech production in the science and technology park there. The ideas were plenty, but with arrival of the large investor the company concentrated on production of chips for creation of lasers. Now Innolume works on R&D-проектом for HP.

7. PCC (Perm Chemical Company)

Founder: Kirill Golovanov

Year of establishment: 2002

Headquarters: Perm, Russia

Production: electronic gas hexafluorobutadiene

Scope of application: electronics

Customers: Samsung and Toshiba

Investors: Bioprocess Capital Venchures

History: the company's owners are Kirill Golovanov (49,9%) and Bioprocess Capital Venchures (50,1%). The company was founded on the basis of the Yodobrom plant. Presently it produces several types of gas, including hexafluorobutadiene, which is used for plasmochemical etching in microelectronics. The plant sells gas to Japan, from where it is delivered to the plants of Toshiba and Samsung.

8. Russian Materials and Technologies

Founder: Gennady Gromov

Established in: 1994

Headquarters: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Production: Peltier coolers

Scope of application: telecommunications, medicine, and space exploration

Investors: RUSNANO, and S-Group Venchures

History: Gennady Gromov left his scientific career in the Moscow Lomonosov Chemical Engineering Institute to establish the Russian Materials and Technologies company. Inestments of RUSNANO and S-Group Venchures in 2010 promoted the production to increase. The company produces 1700 types of coolers that control temperature of electronic systems. Most of its products are exported.

9. AEPS Group

Founder: Alexander Goncharov

Established in: 2003

Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic

Production: secondary power sources and power supply converters

Scope of application: telecommunications, mechanical engineering, and aircrafts

History: Alexander Goncharov founded the first company of the future AEPS Group in 1991. Each of the companies is in charge of a particular part of the technological process. In 2004 he decided to start business in the Czech Republic, where it turned to be less costly to arrange production. At the same time production assets remained  in Russia as well. The group produces current power supplies, which work at the temperature from -60 to +125 Centigrade, as well as accompanying electronics.


10. RiT Technologies

Founder: Ofer Bengal

Established in: 1989

Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Israel

Investor: Stins Coman

Production: telecommunication equipment

Scope of application: telecommunications and data centers

Customers: PetroChina, O2, and Prague airport 

History: The Russian businessman Sergey Anisimov did not start his production of electronics from scratch. In 2008 he purchased a share in the  Israeli company of RiT Technologies, which was unprofitable at that time. Sergey Anisimov founded the R&D branch in Tel Aviv. The businessman plies between Israel and Moscow, where his main enterprise is the Stins Coman holding.

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Author: Vera Ivanova

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