St. Petersburg Precision Alloys Plant congratulates everyone on World Science Day

On November 10 the world scientific community celebrates World Science Day for Peace and Development, established under the aegis of UNESCO. This day symbolizes recognition of the key role of science in society’s life and emphasizes the need for dialogue between scientists, engineers, and the broad public. It reminds that science is not only formulas, laboratories, and experiments. It is the foundation of progress, the engine of industrial development, and the basis of a sustainable future for humanity.

From origins to modernity: the mission of World Science Day

The idea of the holiday was born in 1999 at the World Conference on Science in Budapest. Scientists from different countries came to the conclusion: society must better understand science, and science must be closer to people. In 2001 UNESCO officially proclaimed this day World Science Day, and since then it has been celebrated by dozens of countries, uniting the scientific community of the whole world.

The goals of the holiday remain relevant today, especially for Russia, where scientific potential is traditionally high and strategically significant:

• raising public awareness of the role of science in sustainable and peaceful development;
• supporting scientific initiatives and popularizing knowledge;
• emphasis on social responsibility of scientific workers.

World Science Day is an occasion to say again: Russian science lives, develops, and solves tasks of state importance. For without scientific search sustainable development, technological progress, and national security are impossible. And today it is especially important to support research initiatives, develop engineering thought, and inspire a new generation of scientists.

Science as the basis of precision alloy production

If World Science Day speaks of theory, then Petersburg Plant of Precision Alloys is its practical embodiment. Our production is based on a solid foundation of the domestic school of materials science laid by Russian metallurgists, physicists, and chemists. Without their works creation of those unique materials that today are used in aviation, energy, electronics, and the defense industry would be impossible.

Precision alloys are a special class of materials possessing high stability of properties. Their production requires accuracy in every detail:

• composition of each alloy is regulated with an error of thousandths of a percent;
• melting is conducted in vacuum induction furnaces;
• internal structure of the material is studied under a microscope to guarantee uniformity of structure;
• parameters of elasticity, electrical resistance, temperature coefficient of linear expansion, and other physical-mechanical properties are checked in the plant laboratory.

Precision alloys produced at PZPS are the result of many years of research, experiments, and engineering developments. Each new composition passes a cycle from theoretical calculation to laboratory approval and industrial introduction.

Our enterprise releases:

• soft magnetic alloys — 49K2FA, 27KKh, 50N, 50NP, 79NM, 81NMA — ensure stable magnetic properties of sensors and transformers, as well as accuracy of navigation systems;
• alloys with specified elastic properties — 40KKhNM, 36NKhTYu, 17KhNGT — applied in high-precision instruments, for example in clock mechanisms, measuring instruments, and medical equipment;
• alloys with a low temperature coefficient of linear expansion — 29NK, 36N, 42N — indispensable when creating hermetic metal-glass and metal-ceramic joints; used in electronics where dimensional stability is important;
• alloys with high electrical resistance — Kh15Yu5, Kh23Yu5, Kh23Yu5T, Kh15N60-N, Kh20N80-N — applied in heating elements and other units where high mechanical strength and corrosion resistance in aggressive environments are important;
• corrosion-resistant steels — 12Kh18N9, 12Kh18N10T, 10Kh17N13M3T — high-alloyed materials with a wide working temperature range for various industries: aerospace, oil and gas, chemical, food;
• heat-resistant steel 20Kh13 and nickel alloy KhN78T, able to work under extreme conditions and indispensable in manufacturing components for the aviation industry and power engineering.

Each alloy is embodied science, where accuracy of chemical composition combines with perfection of metallurgical technologies.

PZPS Research Center: a place where innovations are born

Main directions of PZPS RDC work:

• improving melting, heat treatment, and rolling technologies;
• researching material structure;
• developing new alloys with improved characteristics.

Within the center’s walls work is underway on creating new materials and analogues of foreign high-alloyed alloys for the electronic, nuclear, and aerospace industries. Exactly here ideas are born that determine Russia’s industrial future.

The PZPS RDC is an example of how a scientific school and industrial production work in a single rhythm, creating steels and alloys of the future.

Happy Science Day!

The work of a metallurgist or researcher is rarely visible to the broad public, but exactly it determines scientific and technical progress of the country and is that very driver that allows Russia to look confidently into the technological future.

On this World Science Day the team of Petersburg Plant of Precision Alloys congratulates everyone whose life is linked with research activity, engineering, and technological creativity. Your labor is the foundation of the country’s innovative development. Thanks to you theory turns into practice, and metal — into the material of the future.

We are proud that at our enterprise theoretical research finds practical application, and scientific search becomes a real product working for the good of the Fatherland.