Founded in 1970, Special Bureau for Design and Technology CRYSTAL operates now two main types of production: powder metallurgy and special processing equipment. The powder metallurgy section manufactures parts for the automobile industry including those supplied to Russian plants of foreign automakers as well as electrical engineering and instrument engineering products. The company develops and manufactures ultrasonic baths and cleaning facilities for aviation, medicine, machine building; chemically stable centrifugal leak-proof magnetic coupling pumps including their explosion-proof versions for transmission of inert, corroding, highly inflammable and combustible fluids.