NPO Almas
NPO Almas ( Russian: Научно-производственное объединение “Алмаз” , Almas Scientific Production Association) was a Russian defense and electronics company. A previous name was KB-1 . From 1995 the company was transformed into a public limited company (OAO).
The company merged with the Antei group in 2002 to form Almas-Antei . In 1991 it had 55,000 employees, including 7,000 engineers . It belonged to the Ministry of the Radio Industry , but it was planned around 1997 to transfer the company to a partial privatization. The plan stipulated that 65% of the shares should belong to the state and 35% to the employees. The government would have had the opportunity to sell a maximum of a third of its shares to other investors.
Products
The company was primarily active in the electronics sector, producing printed circuit boards , integrated circuits, and military electronics and air defense systems .
The air defense division produced the following products:
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven J. Zaloga: Red Star Wars. May 1, 1997, accessed October 15, 2015 (English, text from Jane's Intelligence Review EUROPE; Vol. 9; No. 5; Pg. 205).
- ↑ a b c d e f Pyotr Johannevich van de Waal-Palms: The 200 Largest Russian companies available for acquisition. Retrieved October 15, 2015 .