NITOL and Optogan announced commencement of cooperation in the Russian market

The aim of the partnership is to pursue strategic cooperation for introduction of energy efficient technologies onto the Russian market.
The agreement, in particular, includes provisions for introduction of the Optogan light emitting diode systems at Nitol’s industrial facilities, thus leading to substantial cost savings in terms of energy consumption and lighting system operational expenses.
Furthermore, under the agreement Optogan will be able to contract Nitol’s engineering division to develop project documentation and supervise installation of Optogan’s light emitting diode systems. Vladimir Dyachenko, head of Nitol’s engineering division, believes that “cooperation between the companies will help implement energy efficient technologies in the Russian market ever more efficiently.”
Both companies have ongoing joint projects with ROSNANO.
Nitol’s strategic goal is to set up in the Irkutsk region an industrial cluster for technologically advanced materials to be used in the semi-conductor and photovoltaic industries, micro- and optoelectronics and other fields.
Currently Nitol is completing construction of Russia’s first polycrystalline silicon facility, polysilicon being the main feedstock for the PV and SEMI industries. The project is implemented in partnership with RUSNANO.
Optogan Group of companies develops and produces ultra bright light emitting diodes, based on the nano-heterostructure technology, and LED lighting systems. Optogan OU was founded in 2004 in Helsinki by Maxim Odnoblyudov, Vladislav Bugrov and Alexey Kovsh – all of them graduates of the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, students of the Nobel Prize winner Zhores Alferov. Since 2006 OPTOGAN’s main technological development work has been carried out in Dortmund, Germany, where the company’s vertically integrated LED production line is based. In 2009 “ZAO Optogan” was registered in Russia to enable ultra bright LED production in Russia. ROSNANO, ONEKSIM Group and OAO RIK participated in the project as co-investors.
In 2010 Optogan Group acquired a major electronic instrument assembly factory in Sankt-Petersburg to launch the first production line with a production capacity of some 30 million encapsulated light emitting diodes per year.