Kirillitsa Group of Companies is strengthening its technological direction and forming a new industrial segment in the rare earth industry, acting as the general sponsor of the RAREMET Congress-2026

Kirillitsa Group of Companies will act as the general sponsor and co-organizer of the International Congress on Rare Metals, Materials and Technologies "RAREMET-2026" (RAREMET-2026), which will be held from May 20 to 22, 2026 in Moscow at the site of RTU MIREA. The Congress is organized by the Institute of JSC "Giredmet" named after N.P. Sazhin (part of the Scientific Division of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation).

Kirillitsa's participation in the status of general sponsor reflects the group's strategic focus on developing high-tech areas and forming new industrial markets related to the processing of critical resources.

"The participation of the Kirillitsa Group of Companies in the status of general sponsor and co—organizer is a signal not only for the market, but also for the scientific community. We see that private business is ready for long-term investments in creating a full cycle of processing rare earth metals. This allows us to synchronize the tasks of science and the real production needs of the industry," said Andrey Goliney, Director of the Chemical Technology Cluster of JSC Rosatom Science, the managing organization of JSC Giredmet.

"For us, the partnership with RAREMET-2026 is not just participation in an industry event, but a step towards the formation of a new industrial direction of the group. We consider the rare earth industry as part of our strategy to create a technologically integrated business, from working with resources to deep processing and creating high—value-added products. We are considering creating a mining and chemical cluster of critical metals with a potential capacity up to 50,000 tons per year and using the Congress as a key platform for selecting technological solutions and partnerships," commented Semyon Garagul, CEO and shareholder of Kirillitsa Group of Companies .

Thus, participation in REDMET 2026 becomes part of the group's broader strategy aimed at developing technological competencies and expanding its presence in resource and high-tech segments of the economy.

The program of the Congress includes a business, scientific and technological agenda: plenary and panel sessions, round tables, as well as specialized conferences on the resource base, metallurgy, chemistry and functional materials based on rare metals. Special attention will be paid to digitalization, the use of artificial intelligence, and environmental aspects of the industry's development. The event will also include a specialized technology and equipment exhibition, RAREMET.:Expo and a series of intergovernmental meetings.

About 500 representatives of the scientific community, business and government agencies from Russia, China, India, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the CIS and other regions are expected to participate.

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The RAREMET-2026 Congress is the successor to the scientific seminars "Sazhinsky Readings", held since 1970, and the series of international RAREMET conferences held in 2021, 2022 and 2024. Over the years, the platform has become one of the largest international forums in Russia, bringing together scientists, technologists, government and business representatives to comprehensively discuss key issues of the development of the rare metal industry.

The Congress is organized by the Giredmet State Scientific Research and Design Institute of the Rare Metal Industry.

The co–organizer and general sponsor is the Kirillitsa Group of Companies.

Co-organizers: The Mendeleev Valley Development Center Foundation, RTU MIREA, D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, N.M. Fedorovsky All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IGIC RAS) , the RM and REM Association.

The general information partner is the federal news agency TASS.

The general industry information partner is the Mining Industry Magazine.

With the support of: Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk State University, the National Association for the Examination of Mineral Resources, the Magazine "Subsoil Use XXI century", the Magazine "Rare Earths", the newspaper "Country Rosatom", the Scientific and business portal "Atomic Energy 2.0", Information and Analytical RUBE magazine, Scientific and Technical Journal Rational Development of Mineral Resources, Extractive Industry Magazine, Globus Magazine. Geology and Business", Popular Science magazine "Chemistry and Life", Specialized magazine "Metal Supply and Sales", Information publication "MetallTrade", Popular Science magazine "THINK", Scientific and Technical magazine "Photonics", Information and advertising publication "Techsovet Premium", Magazine "Mining Science and Technology", The magazine "Izvestia of higher educational institutions. Materials of electronic technology", The Journal "Izvestiya vuzov. Powder metallurgy and functional coatings", The Journal "Izvestiya vuzov. Non-ferrous Metallurgy", the Journal "Izvestiya vysshikh uchebnykh uchebnykh zavedeniy. Ferrous Metallurgy", the Magazine "Industrial Economics", the Magazine "Modern Electronic Materials", the Magazine "Analytics", the Telegram channel "Metal and Mineral", the Fund for Project Support of the National Technology Initiative.

Official website of the Congress: redmet.giredmet.ru.

Kirillitsa Group of Companies – JSC Kirillitsa is a Russian diversified group of companies developing business in key sectors of the economy at the junction of oil trading, oilfield services, logistics, agro—industrial complex and rare earth metals. The Group acts as a strategic and technological partner of the state, implementing projects aimed at strengthening Russia's economic, industrial and food sovereignty.

The main focus is the development of domestic technologies in the oil and gas and rare earth industries, including solutions for hard—to-recover reserves and the development of innovative technologies for processing ores and man-made mineral formations containing critical metals to produce high-margin marketable products.

The group includes the high-tech oil company Oil Resource LLC, which implements a strategy for forming a vertically integrated business model, grain supplier Zemlitsa LLC, as well as logistics and IT companies.

The group's products and services are represented in Russia and in export markets, including the CIS and Southeast Asian countries.

The CEO and shareholder of Kirillitsa Group of Companies is Semyon Garagul.

The N.P. Sazhin State Scientific Research and Design Institute of the Rare Metal Industry of Giredmet JSC (founded in 1931) is the leading coordinating research and design organization of the materials science profile, part of the Chemical Technology Cluster (CTC) of the Scientific Division of Rosatom State Corporation. The Institute specializes in the development of new materials based on rare and rare-earth metals, their compounds and alloys, high-purity substances, semiconductor materials, nanomaterials and nanotechnology.