OCSiAl, Novosibirsk
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OCSiAl is the world's largest manufacturer. graphene nanotubes The company developed and launched industrial a technology for their synthesis. OCSiAl offers solutions based on TUBALL nanotubes to impart electrical conductivity and improve the physical and mechanical properties of various materials, including paints and coatings, rubbers and composites, electrochemical current sources.
According to its own data for 2023, the company produces 80 tons of nanotubes per year, which is 97% of the world's capacity. This project was supported by Rusnano, which in 2014 invested $20 million in it and acquired the company's Eurobonds for another $40 million.
As of July 2021, OCSiAl employs more than 420 employees in 20 countries. More than 70 scientists are engaged in scientific developments in the company.
History
2025: Ban on Patent Disposition
At the end of February 2025, the Intellectual Property Court banned the Russian manufacturer of graphene nanotubes OCSiAl from disposing of their patents. The decision was made at the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation against the Luxembourg company MCD Technoligoes S.A.R.L, which is a legal entity of OCSiAl.
The Prosecutor General's Ministry of Education and Science RUSSIAN FEDERATION Office filed a lawsuit against MCD Technoligoes S.A.R.L in October 2024. The proceedings are related to patents for methods of producing carbon nanotubes and carbon nanomaterial. The plaintiffs demand that the previously issued patents be invalidated in terms of the patent holder - instead of MCD Technoligoes S.A.R.L, indicate the Russian Federation as the sole author of the invention.
The court documents list three patents of the Russian Federation: No. 2478572 for "Method for producing carbon nanotubes and reactor (options)," No. 2573035 for "Method for producing carbon nanostructures and apparatus" and No. 2541012 for "Hollow carbon nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterial and method of producing it." The Prosecutor General's Office believes that these patents should be invalidated in terms of the patent holder "in order to protect public interests in the field of state property rights to the results of intellectual activity." As third parties in the case are indicated the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Institute of Thermophysics named after S. S. Kutateladze of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Mikhail Predtechensky, Rusnano, Federal Service for Intellectual Property, scientists Ilya Koval and Oleg Tukhto.
The ruling says that MCD Technologies S.A.R.L is prohibited from carrying out any actions related to the disposal of the rights to the listed patents. At the same time, the court forbade the Federal Intellectual Property Service to perform registration actions to dispose of the rights to these patents.[1]
2023: Seizure of a stake in Rusnano in Luxembourg at the request of former Yukos co-owners
The Luxembourg court imposed interim measures on the shares of OCSiAl, owned by the state corporation Rusnano, at the suit of the former co-owners of Yukos, a source familiar with the situation at Rusnano told RBC. According to him, the corresponding decision was made at the end of 2022, legal proceedings are currently underway. The seizure of the OCSiAl shareholding was confirmed by a source close to Group Menatep Limited (GML; holding company representing the interests of the former majority shareholders of Yukos).
2021: Attracting investment from Daikin Industries, $2 billion valuation
At the end of July 2021, it became known about OCSiAl's attraction of investments from the Japanese manufacturer of air conditioners, heating and ventilation systems Daikin Industries. As a result of the transaction, the estimate of the Novosibirsk manufacturer of graphene nanotubes amounted to $2 billion, which is twice as much as in 2019.
As part of the agreement, the companies agreed to develop, manufacture, and market graphene nanotube solutions for next-generation lithium-ion batteries and fluoropolymers. It is noted that before that, the partners had been conducting joint developments for three years.
 | Together, the companies plan to develop modern materials with improved properties and explore new markets, OCSiAl said in a statement. |  |
Boris Podolsky, executive director of the Rusnano management company, called the carbon nanotubes produced by OCSiAl "a magic modifier that, if used correctly, allows you to improve the properties of many base materials."
With these nanotubes, you can improve the characteristics of plastic, rubber, composite materials, paints and coatings, as well as in lithium-ion batteries. According to the company itself, OCSiAl occupies 97% of the global production of single-wall carbon nanotubes. Production capacity in 2020 amounted to 80 tons.
According to OCSiAl's own data, 10 of the world's top 10 lithium-ion battery manufacturers are developing OCSiAl nanotube battery cells for the world's leading automakers.
By July 2021, more than 50% of OCSiAl shares belong to its founders: Yuri Koropachinsky, Mikhail Predtechensky, Oleg Kirillov and Yuri Zelvensky. 17.5% of the share belongs to the state corporation Rusnano, which previously invested $20 million in the project.[2]
2020: Capacity - 15 tons
The company's annual production capacity at the beginning of 2020 is 15 tons and will be increased to 65 tons in 2019, and to 115 tons by 2020. OCSiAl offices and representative offices operate in Russia, Luxembourg, USA, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Israel and India.
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