this is a copy and paste from the The RVS Technology Ltd web site 1991
The Soviet Union collapses.
The research activities on all strategically less important areas cease or are "overtaken" by the private sector. The latter is what happens to the primitive form of the RVS Technology.
1994
A group of four people, one of which is said to have been a member of the original scientist group, joins forces in order to develop and refine the technology formula to be commercially exploitable.
1995
After several difficult and quarrelsome phases a company is founded and it possesses a working package of formulas since. The chosen working title of the technology is RVS standing for the Russian words "Remontno-Vosstanovitelny Sostav", meaning Repair and Restoring Compound. Also RRC was used in some English documents.
1997
The primitive form of commercialized RVS compound gets ready for testing. The company name "NPC Ruspromremont" is established and the first foreign distributorship contract is signed with the Ukrainian company Xado.
Patent application is submitted.
1999
The company finds developing, commercializing and globalizing the technology difficult as a Russian technology. The lack of marketing know-how is a problem. Therefore a Finnish joint venture company RVS is established in Helsinki. Finland is the gateway to the west and has an excellent reputation in terms of high tech and being a non-corrupted country.
The parties agree that the Russian party grants the technology and the rights of the original Russian patent to RVS as their contribution for the joint venture.
The first test together with Rautaruukki Oy, the biggest Finnish steel manufacturer is carried out with excellent results.
2001
The first commercial products are launched 2001 and during the following four years the business grows relatively fast. One of the four original Russian shareholders leaves the company.
The patent rights are transferred to RVS and the International Patent Application (PCT) is submitted.
2002
The PCT is published and the RVS Technology trademark application submitted.
Several tests, trials and events are initiated in Finland, Russia, Ukraine, China and Germany.
2003
The RVS Technology trademark is granted and registered.
The initiated tests and trials are completed. Results are very good without exemption.
RVS Technology gets public attention in a non-commercial TV program Puskuri in which an RVS treated vehicle is driven by a journalist from Helsinki to Tampere (160 km) without any engine oil under full time camera surveillance.
RVS appoints Rewitec GmbH to organize an RVS test for them with the leading German research institution, Fraunhofer Institute. The test results are astonishing.
Negotiations with the Chinese distributorship candidates start and first supplies are made.
Locomotive tests in China lead to negotiations with the Chinese distributorship candidates. First supplies are made.
2004
RVS moves to bigger, better and more expensive facilities.
Another Russian shareholder of the four original Russian owners leaves the company.
RVS and Rewitec sign a distributorship contract covering the German-speaking region, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Graufleckentest (gray stain test) with Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, is carried out.
Negotiations with a Turkish distributor candidate fail.
The first shipping company, Bockstiegel from Emden decides to try RVS Technology. The case study report of the treatment of BBC Sealand is a convincing success story.
The Chinese market shows very positive progress. RVS business develops fast.
2005
The tests and Test Report of Misrpetrol, the Test Laboratory of the National Petroleum Company in Egypt are completed with fascinating results.
The company of the Russian party faces domestic problems and RVS must support them. At the same time the rapidly grown exports to China and Germany plummet and pull the company into financial problems sparking the internal disputes.
2007
Increasing internal problems lead to changes in the management and board late 2006 and the business is finally sold in May 2007.
The new owner, Oy RVS Technology Ltd. is a fully Finnish-owned private limited company located in Helsinki, Finland. The technology is now reliably in Finnish hands.
The first and major challenges for the new company are restoration of the profitability by improving the RVS Technology business practices and by developing a more stable and safe third generation RVS compound.
The International Patent is finally granted.
Oy RVS Technology Ltd. appoints CerLub Ltd to carry out the R & D work for the new technology components required for the 3rd technology compound. Once the R & D works of the new triboceramic compound components for RVS Technology (CerLub Technology are completed, a new international patent application is submitted in September 2007.
2008
The new definition for the letters RVS, Regulated Variable Surface, is launched to better describe the improved properties of the third generation compound – the currently used triboceramic based compound.
During the autumn Oy RVS Technology Ltd. moves to the present office address.
2009
Having strong confidence in the 3rd generation compound we take the technology to TÜV Süd Automotive for the certified emission and fuel efficiency tests. The three vehicle test lasts one year ending in August 2010. The results are most convincing.
2010
The new domestic homepage with the new web-shop is launched in December.
Due to our claim, OHIM, Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs) decides, on February 12, 2010, to reject the applied trademark RVS Master as confusing and misleading in classes 4 and 40, "Industrial oils and greases; lubricants" and "Treatment of materials".
2011
RVS wins the long legal process against Rewitec GmbH. The court decision is finally given on June 20, 2011. It is very clear and favorable for RVS. Violation and misuse of our tests, IP and other materials would now on cause heavy sanctions to Rewitec.
First RVS Technology deliveries to wind turbines are made in February.
In December RVS receives an Inspection Report regarding an industrial gear of Ovako Imatra (a leading steel manufacturer) stating that the result of RVS Technology treatment result had endured for 9 years, today already 10 years.
RVS Technology Ltd. establishes the first contacts with Carbon War Room (CWR) in the AREDAY summit in Aspen, USA in August 2011 and later participates the CWR-meeting in Washington, March 2012.
2012
The feedback from Wind Energy branch raises very positive expectations.
RVS technology Ltd. attends the CWR meeting in Berlin, Germany. Cooperation with the new distributors in Thailand and USA are established.
The development of the new international webpage is initiated.
Active discoveries of the business prospects and interests in China are initiated.
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