Vladimir Seredokho, Director General of Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard OJSC has been elected the chairman of the Council of the regional innovative cluster “Composite Cluster of St. Petersburg”, the shipyard’s press center says.
Over 25 companies and organizations with unique competence in production and application of composite materials participated in the founding meeting of the cluster was held in Saint-Petersburg last week.
The meeting participants discussed the cluster’s development activities and strategy, set up the governing bodies. Saint-Petersburg Center of Cluster Development was chosen to manage the new cluster.
One of the main objectives of the cluster is to ensure supply of state-of-the-art high-tech composite materials for major sectors of Saint-Petersburg industry (shipbuilding, energy sector, transport machine building, construction, housing and utility sectors.
OJSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, was created in 1912. The shipyard has built over 500 warships and vessels of 43 designs for the Russian Navy and foreign customers. The shipyard is building missile boats, trawlers, passenger and work vessels for various purposes and is about to start the large-scale construction of mine warships of the new generation for the Russian Navy and foreign countries.
Today, the shipyard is the leader of composite shipbuilding in Russia and the only plant in the country to build warships and civil vessels of 4 types of materials: composite materials, shipbuilding steel, nonmagnetic steel, aluminum and fiberglass. The shipyard has mastered the technology of building hulls of composite materials through vacuum infusion method.