Rosnano, Alcoa join hands in hi-tech

Russia's Rosnano Corporation and  America's leading aluminum producer, Alcoa, are all set to launch a raft of joint high-tech projects.

Speaking  by phone from San Francisco where he is taking part in the 18th annual meeting of the Russian-US Business Council, Rosnano CEO Anatoly Chubais said several very promising ventures were already in the pipeline. He did not elaborate though. 

In the summer of 2009 Rosnano and Alcoa agreed to conduct a joint study of possible use of nanotechnologies in oil and gas as well as new methods of energy transmission and  new-generation lighting systems.