JSC Meteor Plant is a Russian-based producer of Frequency Control Products, (

quartz crystal Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...

quartz oscillator A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. The oscillator frequency is often used to keep track of time, as in quartz wristwatches, to provide a stable cloc ...

s and high-reliable piezoelectric filters).

History

Meteor was officially founded on 17 July 1959 in Volzhsky city (Volgograd region). It pioneered producing quartz crystals HC-27/U (рус. КБ) and HC-29/U (рус. КА) – in

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. By the end of the 1980s Meteor was considered as one of the leading quartz crystal manufacturer in the Soviet Union. In 1989 the number of workers achieved 5500. In 1993 Meteor was reorganized into Joint Stock Company.

Market

Nowadays the company exports its production to nearly 500 enterprises from Russia and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Meteor's production has industrial and satellite purpose. Its product range include quartz crystals for temperature compensated crystal oscillators (

TCXO A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. The oscillator frequency is often used to keep track of time, as in quartz wristwatches, to provide a stable cloc ...

), for oven controlled crystal oscillators (

OCXO A crystal oven is a temperature-controlled chamber used to maintain the quartz crystal in electronic crystal oscillators at a constant temperature, in order to prevent changes in the frequency due to variations in ambient temperature. An oscillat ...

), quartz crystals of general application for wide temperature range, quartz crystals of general application with heightened resistance to mechanical exposure. The plant's quality system is certificated in accordance with certification system

ISO 9001 The ISO 9000 family is a set of five quality management systems (QMS) standards that help organizations ensure they meet customer and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service. ISO 90 ...

. JSC Meteor also has licenses by Russian Control systems federal agency on designing and manufacturing defence technologies. "Meteor" considered itself as a time-tested supplier for Russian radio electronic plants.

External links

Official website
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