The industrial complex was opened in the special economic zone "Uzlovaya" in the Uzlovsky district of the region.

The main products of the enterprise will be highly efficient seals that will be used in the country's fuel and energy complex, industry and housing and communal services.

At the same time, scientists from the Moscow State University named after M.V.

Lomonosov.

“Today we are opening a unique enterprise, unique in that production and direction, which is critically important today in all spheres and industries,” said Dyumin during his speech.

The Governor noted that in the production of low-tonnage chemicals, which had success and development in the Soviet Union, after the collapse of the USSR, there were failures, and the share of imports of products was about 100% in all areas that were needed.

This included the defense-industrial complex.

“We are talking not only about the defense capability of our country, but also about the development of economic potential and those industries without which today, tomorrow is practically impossible,” the governor stressed.

Victor Avdeev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Unikhimtek Group of Companies, spoke about the high-tech nature of the materials produced at the plant.

“These materials are called graphite, based on multigraphene structures ... These materials, they can be called rubber, because when compressed they shrink and increase in volume up to 15-20% tens of thousands of times, and this is the property of rubber, to which we are accustomed to, and at the temperature of the liquid gel it works unchanged, and in air up to 500-600 ° C, and in an inert environment - up to 1000-2000 ° C.

In fact, we created these materials, "he explained in an interview with RT, noting that these are the most" modern sealing materials. "

In addition, graphite, as an inert substance, works in any alkaline environment, he noted.

Avdeev also named the industries in which similar products are used, including nuclear thermal energy, oil production, oil transportation and oil refining, the automotive industry and housing and communal services - "wherever there are pumps, wherever something is pumped, wherever there is pressure."

The creation of such materials began with the development of the space industry, he added.

As the specialist specified, 88 people will work at the new enterprise by the end of the year.