Scientific and Industrial Complex “Supermetal” JSC, Moscow, Russia

L. P. Ulybysheva, Chief Specialist, phone: +7 (499) 481-19-73

The history of Scientific and Industrial Complex “Supermetal” began in the early 1960s. At that time, there was set a task to increase the production of glass fibers, which were produced in aggressive environment, at high temperatures and mechanical loads. Only platinum and its alloys could withstand such operating conditions. For that period, the demand for platinum and palladium considerably exceeded the annual volume of their global production. The twocomponent Pt–Pd alloys, three-component Pt–Pd–Rh alloys, as well as more complex alloys Pt–Pd–Rh–Ir and Pt–Pd–Rh–Ru, were chosen for the research. The alloys were tested in the conditions, similar to operating conditions of glass-melting apparatuses. The physical and chemical research of the alloys` compositions was carried out. The metallographic, electron and microscopic studies of the alloys` structures were performed, along with the choice of the modes of optimum melting and cold plastic working. On the basis of the obtained experimental data, the industrial alloys were developed for the glass-melting apparatuses. These alloys, introduced at the glass fiber plants, made it possible to save several tens of tons of platinum. In the 1990s, the dispersion-strengthened platinum and its alloys were developed and industrially introduced. The non-affinage processing of rich platinum scrap and waste was developed and commercially implemented. Another important line of business, launched in the XXI century, became the making of catalyst systems for the production of nitric acid and wire products for measuring devices. The medical products were also developed and introduced. Nowadays, more than a hundred Russian and foreign companies are the partners and customers of the Scientific and Industrial Complex “Supermetal”.

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6. Tykochinskiy D. S., Rudenko A. E., Rytvin E. I. Vliyanie usloviy obrabotki na strukturu i svoystva splava Pl–Pd–Rd–Ru–25–10–1.5 (Influence of the processing conditions on the structure and properties of Pl–Pd–Rd–Ru–25–10–1.5 alloy). Osnovnye problemy ekonomii platiny v promyshlennosti steklovolokna, sostoyanie i perspektivy ikh resheniya : materialy Vsesoyuznogo Nauchno-tekhnicheskogo Soveshchaniya (Basic problems of platinum economy in the glass-fiber industry, current status and Technical of their solution : materials of All-Union Scientific and Technical Meeting). Under the editorship of E. I. Rytvin. Moscow : All-Russian Research Institute of Glass-fiber Plastic and Glass Fiber, 1973. pp. 97–107.
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19. Lebedenko I. Yu., Vasekin V. V., Levchenko S. D., Tykochinskiy D. S., Stepanova G. S., Parunov V. A., Tagiltsev D. I. Splav stomatologicheskiy na osnove zolota (Dental alloy on the basis of gold). Patent RF, No. 2303640, MPK 7 А 61 K 6/04, С 22 С 5/02. Published: July 27, 2007.

20. Tykochinskiy D. S., Vasekin V. V., Levchenko S. D. Printsipy razrabotki stomatologicheskikh splavov blagorodnykh metallov (Development principles of dental alloys of noble metals). Proceedings of the Third International Conference on precious metals “Platinum metals in modern industry, hydrogen energy and life maintenance in the future “XI’AN — PM’2008”. Beijing : Metallurgical Industry Press, 2008. pp. 258–259.