The international industrial exhibition Metal-Expo 2025 traditionally becomes a place where new ideas are formed, industry trends are discussed, and directions for development of domestic metallurgy are outlined. At the center of lively business communication was the enterprise’s executive director Alexander Vladimirovich Blinkov, who gave an extended interview to industry media.
PZPS presented at the exhibition not simply products but a comprehensive technological approach reflecting the enterprise’s strategy for the coming years. Under conditions of supply-chain restructuring and intensifying sanctions pressure, the topic of technological sovereignty became central for the entire event.
Petersburg Plant of Precision Alloys has for many years been known as a reliable supplier of high-precision materials. However, in 2025 interest in the exposition was especially great. This is explained by growing demand for manufacturers able to supply the country with specialized metals needed for technological independence.
In the interview “When precision accuracy is required,” Alexander Blinkov emphasized: “Today enterprises able to ensure sovereignty in high-tech materials are especially important. Being precision is not a declaration but a strategic necessity.”
PZPS already now plays a system-forming role in supplying Russian companies with high-precision alloys in demand in the following sectors:
Today PZPS controls about 70% of the Russian precision alloys segment. However, the company sets itself a more ambitious goal — to increase market share to 90%, expanding the line of steels and alloys and strengthening positions in the special metals segment.
Against the background of external challenges the plant is implementing a comprehensive modernization program. At the new production site in St. Petersburg a high-precision metallurgy shop is already operating, equipped with electroslag and vacuum-arc remelting furnaces — technologies ensuring exceptional purity and structural accuracy of the metal.
Near-term plans include:
These changes will make it possible to significantly increase the product range — from precision and special alloys to corrosion-resistant, heat-resistant, and carbon steels. Release of hot-rolled and cold-rolled strip, wire, round bars, and spring and heating elements is planned.
The goal of modernization is to raise annual productivity to 8.5 thousand tonnes while retaining production flexibility: from small-batch orders of 1 kg upward to large industrial release in hundreds of tonnes.
By upgrading equipment PZPS also expects to raise surface quality, geometric accuracy, and improve technological characteristics of rolled metal.
The words of Alexander Vladimirovich Blinkov reflect an industry-wide trend: under sanctions and global supply restructuring, the significance of enterprises able to produce specialized materials multiplies.
Russian companies today seek:
PZPS, as one of the few manufacturers of a wide range of precision and special alloys, is ready to meet this need. An important part of the strategy becomes not only raising production volumes but also the ability to adapt promptly to the needs of high-tech and experimental projects.
For industries such as aviation and nuclear power, space technology, and electronics, specialized alloys are the foundation of technological sustainability. PZPS sees its mission more broadly than simply producing metal. According to Alexander Vladimirovich, the enterprise strives to act as a partner ensuring:
“Precision is a choice,” Alexander Blinkov noted in the interview. And today this choice is becoming strategic for all of Russian industry.
