StartUp Story - Mykhailo Zhdanov

- Tell us about you and your background. Linkedin profile?
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/patents-pipes My name is Mykhailo Zhdanov. I was born on May 14, 1953. In 1975, I graduated from Leningrad Navigation College. I worked as a captain on ships on of hydrofoils, tugs, cargo vessels, and a floating crane. I in 1997 in Tula, Russia, founded and managed the limited liability company “Pollymir”. LLC “Pollymir” is a contractor that performs work on the reconstruction of underground collectors and pipelines in a trenchless way. LLC “Pollymir” has much positive feedback from customers. I in 2003, in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, founded and managed a private enterprise “Engineering systems”. Private Enterprise “Engineering Systems” is a contractor that performs work on the reconstruction of underground collectors, pipelines in a trenchless manner and the new building of pipelines from polymer pipes. “Engineering systems” have much positive feedback from customers. I since 2014, i is developing a new way of repairing underground rectangular and shaped underground sewage collectors. I received two patents for the invention of the Russian Federation. I submitted four more applications for inventions on this issue. In August 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia, I founded the Polyhedral pipes OÜ for the implementation of the invention and the production of polyhedral composite pipes and sections. I have a lot of experience in creating and manager organisations involved in the reconstruction and construction of underground pipelines. In the organisation of work on the development, manufacture and use of non-standard equipment in the creation of new inventions and their patenting. I have more than 20 patents and applications for the new devices for pipelines.

- What is your big idea? Why?
  We want to create the production of polyhedral pipes and sections from GRP of any size, shape, and strength for new building and reconstruct underground sewers. Our pipes use the minimum amount of material at minimum cost and maximum strength of our polyhedral pipes. Polyhedral pipes can be transported in a disassembled compact form and assemble them at the customer facility. We want to create manufacturing polyhedral pipes in Europe and the USA.

- Any website? Social media?
  http://www.polyhedralpipes.com/en/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/polyhedralpipes/

- What is your product / service? Where people can buy it?
  Polyhedral composites pipes (PCP) allow you to build underground pipelines of a new technical level – more strong, large sizes, with better characteristics and new properties, with great savings cost and labour. Our polyhedral composites sections allow replacing the old collector with a new fibreglass collector without the use of trenches (the trenchless NO-DIG method). PCP – solves problems of wind towers construction, sewer and flood in cities

- Which countries do you serve?
  Our clients are the municipal authorities of the cities of Europe, America, Asia and Africa. Our customers are builders of underground sewage, drainage, underground rivers, rainwater pipelines. Our customers are builders of underground sewer and drainage tunnels, channels of underground rivers and drains; builders of underground reservoirs for water and wastewater, treatment facilities, tunnels and facilities for their maintenance.

- Why people will buy your product?
  Our customers need the following opportunities: Possibility have larger the size pipe and its higher throughput Need exceptional strength pipe to ensure the safety of building over it The pipe can have another cross-sectional shape than round ones The possibility can get several pipelines during the construction of one Carry out the building with saving cash and territory occupied by the pipeline Transporting pipes in a disassembled compact form.

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Anything else we and readers need to know?
The clean technology of flexible production of polyhedral composite pipes and sections of any size and shape, any high strength.
Minimal consumption of materials.
The possibility of transportation in a disassembled, compact form.
Using polyhedral sections in a trenchless way.
Lack of similar products on the market.
Two patents for the invention received in Russia.
Filed yet four applications for patents.

StartUp Story – Mykhailo Zhdanov