Siberian company building up cooperation with Japan in nanotechnologies.
29.10.2009, 20.34
TOKYO, October 29 (Itar-Tass) - Russian company Sun is eyeing opportunities for an expanded cooperation with Japan in the field of nanotechnologies, Vladislav Mirchev, the president of Sun Innovations Ltd. told Itar-Tass Thursday.
His company is registered in the Novosibirsk region.
Mirchev said he held a range of useful business meetings with top executives of Konica Minolta IJ Technologies, which is located in the city of Hino, and Nichia Corporation of Tokushima.
Taking part in the talks together with him were two officials from Russia’s federal corporation for nanotechnologies ROSNANO, Vassily Grudev and Alexei Krivtsov.
The latter two men informed the Japanese interlocutors on the operating goals of their corporation and its plans regarding promotion of partnership between Russian and Japanese nanotech producers.
Sun Innovations Ltd. has secured ROSNANO’s approval and financial assistance to its projects, with Grudev and Krivtsov confirming this at the meetings in Japan.
Sun’s projects are interesting for ROSNANO from the angle of view of research potential and commercial prospects likewise, and investment in them stands at 40 million U.S. dollars, Mirchev said.
He pointed out intensive interest that Japanese counterparts have displayed towards products from Siberia, adding that the sides have reached agreement on tight practical cooperation in the field where they have identical interests.
The Russians side invited executives of the two Japanese corporations to visit Russia for getting familiarized with Sun’s production facilities.
Konica Minolta’s President Akiyoshi Ohno said in a comment on the results of the talks his company is ready to develop relations with Russian partners, including Sun Ltd.
The company started out on the market manufacturing photo and X-ray film and its current line of products includes industrial printers used for applying special coatings to solar panels and large-size advertising products.
The plant in Hino manufactures coloring printer heads of the Inkjet type.
Akiyoshi Ohno said his company is interested in joint business with Russian partners secured by ROSNANO’s support, as well as in promoting its own technologies on the Russian market, and this means that the two sides’ interests are identical in this sense.
He praised the potential of the Siberian manufacturing facility and singled out the several years of cooperation with Sun Ltd. as “unique experience” and expressed the hope that the two companies’ joint efforts will bring about new technologies and products.
Vladislav Mirchev said, on his part, Sun Ltd. is ready to purchase compact coloring printer heads from Konica Minolta and, on top of that, to develop and supply to Japan a unique coloring ink Sunflower NANOink, which is produced on the basis of nanotechnologies.
Sun Ltd. works in Russia and on the markets of many other countries for ten years already, Mirchev said.
“Siberian printers for large-format printing are absolutely ecologically safe and operationally secure and they make it possible to emboss relief designs of up to 5 millimeters thick on furniture frontispieces, ceramics and other carriers – a technology pioneered by the experts working for Sun Ltd.,” he said.
“The company makes the world’s fastest-working electronics for such installations and can manufacture it jointly for the needs of Japanese partners or supply it to the Japanese market,” Mirchev said.
He recalled that Sun Ltd. displayed the world’s single fully ecologically friendly UV printer NEO UV-LED Evolution in 2008. “It has innovative electronics that produced a sensation on the market of large-format printing,” Mirchev said.
“Sun Ltd. exports its products from Siberia to over 40 countries, including Japan,” he said.
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