Optron Stavropol

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2025: Downtime announcement amid losses

In March 2025, the microelectronic enterprise Optron-Stavropol announced a downtime. The manufacturer of power electronics is on the verge of bankruptcy - production has been stopped, employees have been released home. According to director Pavel Borodanenko, the company led to problems with the implementation of the state defense order (GOZ), during which the plant went at a loss of more than 149 million rubles. The losses of the plant are associated with low prices within the framework of government orders.^[1]

2021: Plant Closure Announcement

In early March 2021, it became known about the closure of Optron-Stavropol JSC, the only plant in Russia that produces power semiconductors for aviation. On April 1, his employees warned the government of the Stavropol Territory and its governor Vladimir Vladimirov about the impending termination of the enterprise.

The closure of the plant will lead to the cessation of the production of components for the aviation industry and the risk of stopping the production of aircraft generators for the needs of the Ministry of Defense and Civil Aviation. The workers of the plant, who are not indifferent to the fate of this enterprise, are concerned about the current situation and ask for comprehensive assistance from the government of the Stavropol Territory and the governor in solving this problem, the letter says.

The representative of Optron-Stavropol JSC, in a conversation with Vedomosti, named the reason for the closure of the plant - the lack of orders for the products it produces. In 2020, the volume of contracts of the enterprise amounted to 94 million rubles, and in 2021 it was reduced four times.

Russian manufacturer of power semiconductors for aviation closes

Shareholders are not able to subsidize us in such volumes. Therefore, in February, all employees received a notification about the upcoming reduction, - said the interlocutor of the newspaper.

According to him, almost all jobs are liquidated at the enterprise, except for 15 - these employees will ship devices available in the finished product warehouse until the end of 2021.

Experts interviewed by the publication noticed that they warned about the risk of closing the plant five years ago. This is a natural process due to the reduction in the state defense order. The only option for the plant was to switch to civilian products, they say.

Ivan Pokrovsky, director of the Association of Russian Developers and Manufacturers of Electronics (ARPE), noted that production at Optron-Stavropol JSC is unique for Russia. It will take time and financial investments for another manufacturer to master the nomenclature of the Stavropol plant in production, he said.^[2][3]

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