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«Chemmet» LLC
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R&D Leader – Tolochko Oleg, D.Sci., Prof.
Project Leader, CEO - Karamyshev Sergey
mob.+7(911) –22-000-41; fax. +7 (812) 303-86-32
www.himmet.ucoz.ru; ooo-himmet@rambler.ru
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Areas of innovations
 Amorphous
metal fibers for concrete
reinforcement.
 Solid lubricant nanoparticles
 Copper - carbon nanotubes composite
materials
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Amorphous metal
fibers for concrete
reinforcement.
(Venture investment
project)
«Chemmet» LLC
project
«Fiber»
Challenge Assessment
Customer problem:
Concrete
Low tensile and bend strength
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! Reinforcement is necessary !
Disadvantages:
traditional
solution
•Low efficiency
Steel
bars
•labor cost
•corrosion
•high termo conductivity
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«Fiber»
Solution Overview
Technology
Process stages:
 Alloy melting
 High-speed casting on the rotating
drum (spinning- process)
 Mixing with concrete (in standard
mixer on construction-site)
Result:
 High-strength fibers (2000 – 4000
MPa)
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«Fiber»
Solution Overview
Functionality:
 High-strength (2000 – 4000 MPa instead
200-300 MPa for steel bars)
 flexibility, safety
corrosion resistance
Customer value:
 material and labor cost saving on
reinforcement work (up to 25-30%)
 work acceleration
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«Fiber»
Market Information
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Market of steel fiber:
– European – up to 250 000 ton/year
– Russian – up to 25 000 ton/year
– Russian market leader «Kurganscalmost» - average
production 8 000 ton/year
Price
– From от 30 000 RUR (900 Euro) /ton (Russian steel wire fiber),
– To 400 000 RUR (9000 Euro) /ton (amorphous fiber “Fiberflex”,
France).
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«Fiber»
Overview On Competition
ordinary fibers
Cuttered steel fiber d= 0,1-0,15 мм,
l= 32 mm
«Kurganscalmost», Russia, “Harex”,
Germany
Wire steel fiber
«BMZ»,Belorussia, «Severstal-Metiz», Russia
Polymer and celluloze fiber
“Recem ТМ”, Germany, distributed by
«TD Evrohim-1», Russia
Competition based on unique properties of our
product
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«Fiber»
Overview On Competition
amorphous fibers
FiberflexTM , SEVA, France
•Strength - 1400 – 1800 MPa
•Price –up to 400 000 RUR (9000
Euro)/ton
Competition based on high quality and low priceses
of our product
 Strength - 2000 – up to 4000 MPa
 Price –up to 150 000 RUR (3000 Euro)/ton
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«Fiber»
Influence of fiber reinforcement on
fracture of concrete
С фиброй
Без фибры
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«Fiber»
Advantages of amorphous fiber
• Tensile strength is 5 times higher
as compare with crystalline materials
(up to 2 GPa);
•High corrosion resistance
Bend strength, kg/cm2
•Surface area 10 times higher as
compare with conventional fiber,
that provide better adhesion with
concrete matrix;
The influence of fiber
additions on concrete strengh
120
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40
20
0
0
10
20
30
40
50
Fiber concentration, kg/m3
60
70
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«Fiber»
Business Model
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Product - amorphous fiber
Main customer segments:
– industrial floor makers (70% of fiber market),
– industrial concrete construction producers
– dry concrete premix producers
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Reasons to buy:
– unique properties (high strength, noncorrosive, non-abrasive, safe in use
– reasonable low price
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Fiber application
areas:
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Industrial floor,
Armored concrete;
Road covering, embankment;
Torcrete-concrete;
Dry premixes, facing, repair
compositions, etc
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«Fiber»
Market Entry
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Geographical areas:
– Russia (North-West and Central region, Moscow)
– Europe (Finland and Scandinavia, Baltic countries,
Eastern Europe)
– CIS countries
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Finland – the best way to technology transfer of
innovation from Russia to EU
Delivery Channels:
– B2B sales
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Service Providers:
– regional dealers in main target regiones
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«Fiber»
Other Fundamentals
Management Team Overview
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«Chemmet» LLC – Russian start-up company for the project
Project Leader- Karamyshev Sergey – «Chemmet» LLC 100% owner
and director.
– General and Production management, investment, product
sertification.
R&D Leader – Tolochko Oleg, D.Sci., Prof.
– Alloy composition and production technology research and
development, IP protection.
CFO – Tantsura Alexander
– financial analysis, budget, accounting, investment proposal.
Product manager – Vasiljeva Ekaterina, Ph.D.
– product marketing research, customer relationship
The team has positive experience of mutual research work in hi-tech
business.
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«Fiber»
Other Fundamentals
IPR Overview
 “Know-how” in the amorphous alloy
technology, based on Prof. Tolochko 20-years
research
 2 Patent applications (in progress):
– alloy composition
– fiber surface treatment
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«Fiber»
Risks
Importance
Sales/Rates, Branch,
Industry,
Efficity/Productivity,
Environment
IT&IP Security, Fraud,
Protection of Labour,
Finance Reports,
Measuring/Monitoring,
Shareholder Relation
Competitors,
Regulatory, Quality
Protecting of Assets,
Currency, Taxes
Probability
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«Fiber»
Financing Plan
RUB
EUR
Sales
26 520 000
612 471
Total Expenses
16 022 400
370 032
EBITDA
10 497 600
242 439
Depreciation
140 000
3 233
Gross Profit
10 357 600
239 206
Taxes
1 553 640
35 881
Net Profit
8 803 960
203 325
GPM,%
39,58
NPM,%
33,20
ROE
3,26
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«Solid lubricants»
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Solid lubricant
nanoparticles
(WS2, WSe2)
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«Solid lubricants»
Advantages of solid lubricants:
Aerospace
equipment
High vacuum conditions;
Work temperatures up to
10500C;
Automotive
industry
High loads conditions;
Robotics & etc.
Aggressive mediums;
Dispersing them in wide range
of lubricant mediums.
Nanoparticles is an essential
component for surface
nanostructuring.
WS2
Well dispersing in
any liquid mediums
Impregnating of porous
PM manufactured parts
Impregnating of sprayed,
laser sintered coatings
Impregnating polymer
and organic composites
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«Solid lubricants»
Nested
structure of
IF-WS2
nanoparticles
W
Filament structure
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«Solid lubricants»
Polyimide matrix in
couple with bronze
High
load
and
low
speed
Al2O3 (Ti substrate) in couple
with bronze
WS2 nanoparticles with mean
size ~20 nm
Kf <0.15 ↓ (0.32-initial),
abrasive wear ↓
Oil
suspension
Kf <0.1 (0.4- initial),
abrasive wear ↓
Low friction mechanism:
•There is no rolling of nanoparticles in the contact between two
antagonist surfaces;
•Van der Waals forces between sulfur planes explain low inter-planar
shear strength
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«Solid lubricants»
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Copper - base
composite materials
with evenly disperse
carbon nanotubes
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«Copper- nanotubes»
Application areas
Antifriction materials:
bearings, coils, mechanical
seals
Sliding electric contacts:
generator and motor
brushes
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«Copper- nanotubes»
SEM and TEM images of product
produced on Cu particles
0.2 µm
Pristine Cu powder Treated at 750˚C with CNFs synthesized
acetylene
at 750˚C with
acetylene
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«Copper- nanotubes»
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Cu/CNT
Cu/graphite
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C, mass.%
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Hardness, HB
Hardness and specific elongation
of Cu/CNF composite
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Proposals to Finnish partners
Amorphous fiber plant – looking for
investments
 Solid lubricant nanoparticles, copper carbon nanotubes composite materials –
mutual research, commercialization, sales in
EU
 Nanoparticles and nanotubes production
equipment - sales in EU
 Contacts with Russian and CIS innovation
startups, technology transfer, technical
expertise, patent service
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