Topuridze Nikita has been in the cable business for almost twenty years, he is considered to be the initiator and ideologist of the active promotion of innovative technologies in the Russian power industry.

Nikita Romanovich graduated from Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and the Higher Courses of the United Nations, then studied at the Sorbonne. His professional career began in Geneva in the European department of the United Nations, he had worked there for 5 years, then in the administrative office of the Foreign Ministry and for a few years in international journalism. After studying at the Academy of International Trade and the French “Masters program of International Management”, in 1994 Nikita Romanovich was appointed head of the Russian representation of the major international corporation Alcatel Cable (hereinafter Nexans). Since 2007 N. Topuridze is the president of the Group of Companies Sim-Ross.

Group of Companies Sim-Ross was the first to introduce in the domestic power industry innovative materials and equipment: self-supporting insulated wire (SIP) 0.4 kV, 6 to 500 kV XLPE insulated cable, cable insulated with ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) for explosion hazardous areas, industrial heating systems for pipelines, wires of the new generation of type Z, etc. Today thanks to the efforts and enthusiasm of the team of N. Topuridze high-effective cable conductor systems have been embraced by many domestic companies from various industries.

However, according to the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation worn-out state of the electric grid of the country is 70%. Annual losses amount to over 60 billion rubles, not counting the cost of almost 3 billion rubles for regular emergency restoration work.

This problem is now under consideration at the state level. So, at the international forum Rusnanotech 2011 during discussions on the transfer of the latest Western technology to Russia Dmitriy Medvedev has shown a keen interest in the speedy establishment of the country’s production of composite core wires

In 2011, construction of a joint Russian-Belgian company Sim-Ross-Lamifil for the production of high-voltage cables of the new generation for overhead power lines began. The management of FGC UES supported the initiative of Sim-Ross for the construction of such a plant in Uglich. Sim-Ross-Lamifil plant is an exact technological replica of the Belgian production of the company Lamifil, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-voltage wires of a new type.

The first products in Uglich will be released already in 2012. Then the second phase of the plant will begin. Coming at full capacity, the plant will produce up to 16 thousand km of new generation high-voltage cables. The projected economic impact of the introduction of a new generation of wires into the Russian power will be billions of rubles a year.

Residents of villages and towns will forget about outages. Carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere will be significantly reduced due to the reduction of power losses in the networks, electromagnetic emission will be reduced. The project will create hundreds of high-paid jobs in Uglich. The company will have its own laboratories, research and training centers.