"Ultraviolet solutions" from Kazan became a supplier of NASA

2021: Crystal Supply Plans

The company "Ultraviolet Solutions" from Kazan became a supplier of NASA. This became known on March 3, 2021. The company was created by current employees of Kazan Federal University (KFU), who specialize in crystals. Russian contractors for NASA are unusual, since Washington has been cutting off contacts with Moscow in space for the past decade.

The company did not cooperate with NASA until 2020, said Alexey Shavelyev, director and owner of Ultraviolet Solutions.

NASA paid 24 thousand for crystals. dollars Crystals are used as an active medium in laser radiation sources; active medium is responsible for beam amplification and properties. Where exactly the agency will use our crystals, I don't know. In principle, the most popular uses of it medicine are and, - science said Shavelyev.

What volumes of crystals the company plans to supply in the United States, Shavelyev did not specify.

Prior to the contract with NASA, Ultraviolet Solutions had already collaborated with American customers.

Representatives of the American organization themselves found Russian physicists. Key employees of Ultraviolet Solutions Alexei Nizamutdinov, Vadim Semashko and Alexey Shavelyev are current employees of KFU as of March 2021. However, the head of the company said that they are all the creators of the brand. Crystals for the United States will indeed be grown together with the university, and later bought from the university.

According to Mikhail Petrov, sales director of the international company Mia Air, a client from the United States for a research and production enterprise from Tatarstan is a great luck.

The American market is very competitive for Russian companies. Dozens can go there, and units can stay. Domestic firms face a much more developed business environment in the USA, a high level of competition. Local enterprises initially have easier access to technologies and innovative solutions, "he said.

In this sense, it is characteristic that NASA itself came to the Ultraviolet Solutions - the fact is that it would be very difficult for scientists to establish export marketing^[1].

2020: Signing of preliminary agreement

A preliminary agreement on the purchase of a batch of crystals was signed back in November 2020.

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