2002 – Grand-Prix in the category «Ground surface transport engineering» at the «JEC» exposition in Paris
In 2002, "ApATeCh" became the first Russian company, which has won the Grand-Prix at International Show of composite materials and technologies in Paris. "ApATeCh" was awarded the first prize for the development of
composite electrical insulating joints of railroad rails and their mass introduction into infrastructure of railway transport engineering. "Reliability and economic effect for railway transportation engineering" is was precisely to that criterion that was used for the development of that technical solution.
2004 - Award «Russian National Olympus»
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In 2004, the SPE «ApATeCh» was awarded "Russian National Olympus" and thus became a laureate of the X solemn ceremony in the nomination "Outstanding enterprises of small-scale and middle-scale business". The prize "Russian National Olympus" is one of most important social awards of Russia, which reflects highest achievements of Russian society in all spheres of its activity.
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2007 - Grand-Prix in the category «Ground-surface transport engineering» at «JEC» exposition in Paris
In 2007, «ApATeCh» won the Grand-Prix at the JEC show in Paris, thus becoming a double laureate of that prize. That has happened for the first time in the history of that international forum. This time "ApATeCh" was given a prize for structural development and introduction of glass-fiber water removal channels for railways of Russia. In the late 1990th, the Ministry for Railways Engineering decided to reconstruct the high-speed section of the line Moscow – Saint-Petersburg and absolutely new, unprecedented in the world practice solutions were in demand. In response to that, in 1998 the STE «ApATeCh» developed, and since 1999 started to actively introduce water removal channel, made of composite materials. This is a quite critical product, its destruction can cause washing-out of railroad track, and this will not make it possible to provide for high-speed train traffic between the two Russian capitals. Today, very reliable and economic composite channels are used not only for railways but also for highways engineering (they are installed, for example, at the Moscow Ring Highway).