History of the company

POLYINFORM was founded in Saint-Petersburg 11.05.1989. The main activities of the company in the early years were: carrying out geological and hydrogeological studies, as well as quarrying.

In 1992 the R&D Department was founded and the microbiological laboratory was created on the base of All-Russia Institute of Plant Protection. Since 1992 we make large number of researches in the area of biotechnologies for such oil companies as «Lukoil» Oil Company, OAO «AK «Transneft», «Ukos» Oil Company, OAO «TNK-BP» as well as for government contracts of the Ministry of Defense (1999-2004), the Natural Resources Committee on the Khanty-Mansiysk Region (2001). Also we performed research works on the Grant «USAID» (USA) (2003) and for foreign companies EKOKEM-PALVELU, Finland (clean soil from MTBE) in 2005; NKK Corporation, Japan (treatment of soil contaminated with petroleum products, polyaromatic compounds and heavy metals) in 2002, Boda Environmental Protection Co., China in 2005. All work received a positive assessment of the Customer, the developed technologies and projects passed the state examination of Ministry of Nature Resources and found the practical usage in the works on cleaning up natural objects from technogenic pollution.

In 1996 the complex biotechnology Soilex^® was designed for cleaning (bioremediation) of oil contaminated soil water and ground water. The technology is based not only on applying of special technical methods but at the own biopreparations Soilex^® as well, which are manufactured according to special method at the production line of the company. The technical solution which were the essence of the technology (the method of working, biopreparation producing, the bio-products themselves) were protected by 15 patents of Russia.

Since 2002 POLYINFORM works in the sphere of constructing and overhaul of fuel-gas complex objects. While working the company implemented projects for OAO «Rosneft» on constructing of special sites for oily waste processing, for OAO «Russian Railways» we constructed more than 20 recultivation sites at the locomotive depots yards, the gas generating plant for combustion of exhaust sleepers was designed and constructed as well.

In 2005 a new direction was opened — the examination of pipelines industrial safety. The researches were performed in the field of magnetometry techniques applying for the measurement of the scattering component of the constant field and their gradients, and electrometry and geo-electrochemistry to determine the corrosion damage of pipelines.

In 2006 in the frames of the Competition of Federal Science and Innovations Agency «The venture project of the science-technical production creation» we developed the magnetometric system KMD-01M for the contactless diagnostics of pipelines based on the ferroprobe sensors.

In 2009 we developed the KMD-01M system based on the thin-film magnetoresistive nanostructures. The device is certified by State Standard of Russia (Certificate of Conformance № РОСС RU/0001/11MH05). The industrial and arbitrage tests of the device showed high accuracy of the results (up to 93%).

In 2010 the positive expert conclusion as the result of science-technical examination from the leading experts of State Corporation «ROSNANOTECH» was received.

In 2011 for R&D activity the Technologies and Innovations Center (TIC LLC) was established. The projects in the field of innovative methods of pipelines diagnostics and the development of nano-biological products for the protection of the environment passed technical expertise of «Skolkovo» Found. TIC LLC awarded the status of «Skolkovo» participant.