Just a year ago, in 2010, the Russian Renova group of companies, which holds and manages assets in the metallurgical, oil, machine-building, ore mining and electric-power industries as well as in telecommunications and nanotechnologies, and the Swiss Oerlikon Balzers corporate group, a world leader in advanced technologies, set up Russia's first Center for Application of Nanostructured Coatings at Elektrostal, an industrial town near Moscow. This enterprise ranks 89th in the global network catering to enterprises of the USA, South America, Europe and Asia in metal-cutting tools hardening, and stamping and molding equipment. Head office of the Oerlikon Balzers Center for Application of Nanostructured Coatings at Elektrostal, Moscow Region. стр. 23 The place of this enterprise providing advanced engineering technologies to the national market was chosen quite deliberately. Elektrostal is a town with a long-standing economic potential formed by several local company enterprises. They include the Machine-Building Plant, the world's leading producer of nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants, research reactors and power plants for the marine fleet, the Elektrostal Metallurgical Works supplying high-quality alloys for the machine-building and chemical industries, jet-propelled aviation and space vehicles, and the Elektrostal Heavy Machine-Building Plant manufacturing equipment for metallurgical and rolling mills, tube mills as well as the ore-mining and cement industries. Private businesses are likewise busy here. Suffice it to say that above 30 foreign organizations are at work at Elektrostal. This is certainly an attractive town for investors. The Oerlikon Balzers Center is quite at home here. The performance characteristics of tools and parts depend on the condition of their surface coating because it is subjected to the most severe mechanical, thermal and other effects. The conventional chemical methods of hardening are no longer good. Today ... Читать далее