OREANDA-NEWS  On 29 September was announced, that on September 22 during the V Forum of Heads of near-border regions, Russian companies Quant and Akvazon signed a number of documents with their Kazakh partners, with the assistance of RUSNANO and the participation of their respective governments.

Quant, a Russian scientific and industrial enterprise, will work in a program of scientific and technical collaboration with Gidropribor, a scientific research institute based in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. Quant, one of the leading research enterprises in Russia, is engaged with developing methods of transforming different forms of energy (such as chemical, solar, and thermal) into electricity, and creating remote energy generation to supply electric power and a range of diagnostic tools, widely utilized in different fields of science, technology and production. One of the larger projects for scientific and industrial enterprises is the production of solar batteries for use here and on space bases. The project guidelines will enable cooperation in developing technological equipment and the expertise necessary to produce solar batteries to international standards. The construction of the Kazakh-Russian enterprise for solar battery production (up to 50 megawatts) will substantially reduce the cost of kilowatt-hours of solar energy, which in turn will make large-scale use in the economy possible.

Akvazon, in turn, has signed an agreement on collaboration in the field of developing and manufacturing water-purification equipment on the basis of nanotechnologies with the Kazakh company Zhasyr Gasyr. Technologies are being adapted in Russia to make it possible to place a separate “third tap” in apartments, public institutions and offices to guarantee clean drinking water cheaply and easily. Filtering cartridges are already produced for everyday use in Russia. Everyday filters and most other water-purification systems are imported into Kazakhstan; however, it will soon be possible to manufacture them in the country itself.

“Both documents were signed with the active assistance of ROSNANO. We will also continue to support our partners, ensuring financing of these projects together with our associates,” said the Corporation’s design head Mikhail Chuchkevich. “By the end of the year we expect to sign five similar agreements on other projects. The beginning of work on various projects in different branches will become a reliable basis for further collaboration between Russia and Kazakhstan in the sphere of nano-technologies.”

We should remember that the agreement between RUSNANO and the Kazyna fund for stable development was signed in the presence of two presidents in May of this year. In the last four months nine projects have seen work begun, and Kazakh partners with private capital have been found for five out of nine corporations.