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Rusnano gives $18.3m to Avangard for hi-tech sensors |
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Oleg Kouzbit, Online News Managing Editor
Russia’s state-run nanotechnology corporation, Rusnano, has recently announced a promising $41.3m joint project that calls for production of nano-based radio electronics. Its project partner is one of Russia’s largest R&D and production companies, Avangard. Rusnano is putting up $18.3m in cash and Avangard is contributing its facilities and intellectual property. With global sensor markets burgeoning and their SAW segments showing 13+% a year growth, the Rusnano investment looks like it’s right on the beam.
Government-owned nanotech corporation Rusnano has announced plans to pony up $18.3m to help Avangard, a St. Pete high-tech electronics firm, to make praetersonic and chemisorption based instruments and systems.
In return for the cash infusion, Avangard is contributing production sites and its intellectual property.
The total cost of the project is estimated to be a reported $41.3m. Production is expected to start in 2012, the project partners say.
Sensors, gages and radio electronics
RBC says the project partners expect to produce energy-efficient pressure sensors and strain gages that will operate within a broad range of temperatures at very competitive prices.
One of the most promising products to be developed will be gas alarms and other gas consumption safety devices using surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology. Avangard says the devices will have very enhanced ambience proof properties.
Praetersonic components for radio electronic instruments and systems will reportedly include ultrasonic and dispersive delay lines with a broad frequency range, frequency-stabilizing SAW bunchers, as well as high-frequency band filters to be used in GLONASS/GPS navigation receivers, mobile phones, and high-frequency digital TV devices.
Another line under development is radio frequency identification devices which can potentially replace barcodes that currently need to be scanned before being interpreted.
Avangard has plans to stay in close contact with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Radio Electronics Institute to polish and refine the above technologies and develop next-gen ones, too.
The tandem
St. Petersburg’s Avangard is one of Russia’s largest R&D and production corporations. Its focus is applying state-of-the-art technologies to mass produced radio electronics.
Rusnano was set up in 2007 to develop Russia’s nanotechnology potential. CEO Anatoly Chubais announced last year that by 2015 Russia’s nanoproduct sales would reach $32.8bn, with sales by Rusnano-invested companies across the country hitting at least $10bn a year.
Eyes on the prize
The world’s sensor and microcomponent market has continued to grow despite the global recession. It was reportedly worth $51bn as of late 2008; by 2018 the market is expected to grow to $67bn, thus making a modest but steady 5% yearly increment.
Russia’s sensor market reportedly accounted for just 2% of the global market in late 2008; between now and 2018 it is forecasted to be growing an average of 9.6% each year and eventually hit $2.5bn.
With more and more mass users of active transducers looking to replace them with new SAW technology devices, Rusnano is betting that Avangard will make its mark in a sector of the sensor business that RBC says is rocketing along with growth rates of more than 13.5% a year.
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