Selected Private-Sector Organizations in Pushchino

• STACK: founded 1990, provides communications services to Pushchino and Serpukhov District of the Moscow Region.

• TESTSIP: founded 1994 within the framework of the TACIS Program of the European Community, provides analytic services for food quality certification.

• AGROS: founded 1988, produces mushrooms for sale in the Moscow region.

• SINKHRO: founded 1993, develops and produces devices and equipment for liquid chromatography and solid phase peptide synthesis for sale in Russia, Germany and Korea.

• DIAKOM-OKA: founded 1993, produces and distributes diagnostic kits for clinical biochemistry for sale in Russia and countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States; joint venture Lachema International established with the Czech company Lachema in September 1995 for production of diagnostic kits for clinical biochemistry and microbiology.

• BIOTET-SKA: founded 1990, produces quartz and glass cuvettes for spectro-photometry and photocalorimetry, and laser equipment for sale in Russia and countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

• KIT: founded 1995, produces immunochemical and molecular genetic test systems for sale in Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Ukraine.

• MBM: founded 1990, produces devices for determining moisture level in grain and fat content in milk, and acoustic analyzers for skin and soft tissues for sale in Russia, Belorussia and the Ukraine.

• BIOCOL: founded 1993, produces materials for covering wounds for sale to hospitals in Russia and in drugstores in the Moscow region.

• DEOST: founded 1995, produces medical equipment for trauma, orthopedic, burn and surgical wards of hospitals in Russia and countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

• ECOFARM: founded 1992, produces biological means of plant protection.

• ZUBR: founded 1992, provides cattle-breeding services including embryo transplantation.