Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, speaking at a meeting of Vladimir Putin with members of the government, said that Russia plans to increase neon production to 180 thousand cubic meters next year. m and provide almost a quarter of the world's needs. He also said that Bauman Moscow State Technical University has already launched a full-scale production of high-purity neon, necessary for the production of microchips.
To date, Russia really produces over 30% of the world's neon-helium mixture, but at the site in Baumanka we plan to initially produce about 70 thousand cubic meters of neon per year, this will correspond to about 10% of the global market. And next year we will increase production to 180 thousand cubic meters and we will be able to meet almost a quarter of the world's needs. In fact, we will replace the volumes supplied earlier by two Ukrainian enterprises that are not functioning now," he said. — If according to neon by the end of the year it is 10% [share in the world market], by the end of next year it is 25%. And for xenon and krypton – also about 30%," Manturov added.
