Mystra Engineering

22/05/2020

FIVE YEAR-OLD MYSTRA

Amazing! Five years already! It's not too much, but just imagine - five years of everyday work of a separate company. Twenty seasons had changed. It's not too little, you have to live it through.

A couple of days ago I had a phone talk with one of the company's good old friends. We talk from time to time from the beginning of Mystra existence, and the more the time flow, the more uncovered (I would even say - unbeseeming :) ) astonishment I can hear in his speech. Astonishment about that we, Mystra, are not disappearing in the surrounding unpredictable and unfriendly circumstances.

And what news do we have? We ship. Despite of crisis and quarantine. Probably, these are the main news. And everything is fine - the volumes are expanding, the order is taking power. The consequences of difficult years 2017-2018 are passed by not leaving any trace.

But some new achievements - the new web-site and some others, even more interesting, are on there way. It's just that we will tell you about them at our sixth birthday. See you there.

Wish we all good health! Wish you all good health!

Very best regards,

Nikolay Zinenko

05/12/2018

Pilot version of New Year greetings post-card:
Sun U-kung: Hi, Yura!
Zhu Ba-ze: Hi, Jacky!
Dragon-Horse: Mystra. We deal with you even if you are an animal.

14/06/2018

THREE YEAR OLD MYSTRA

Three! It is much more than one, and a little bit less than four. 😉 And do you know what is the main difference between the third and the second year? A year ago it was easy to remember what – nice, brilliant, cheerful - exactly had happened during the first and the second year of our existence. And now it’s different. To remind myself the events of the last year of Mystra, I have to read the post from the previous birthday))) It happens because every day is full of events. Years start to fly, and that means that the company is becoming older. It’s wonderful.

Still, what’s the news? Among the most noticeable, probably these ones:

1. A breathtaking strengthening of our delivery department. After the days when each purchase order used to turn into a special problem with delays and expenses, I’m happy to declare that now our delivery department is a properly functioning machine, similarly to the tender team. Whether you prefer elephants or shrimp crisps – we can deliver them to you. Now we are working on warehouse storage system. Look for the news in the next year publication)

2. But the times of order and prosperity had come not only to the delivery branch. While the system of relationships between the state customer, the supplier, the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service is still quite imperfect, the reformation of our legal department helped us not only to declare our rights, but also to ward off some, I should say, brigandish attacks. Sometimes peace and harmony will settle down in the system. And before that – we rely upon our legal division.

3. Concerning the mentioned above tender department and the accountant team – bravo, they did their job well, and now had become even better.

4. I’m happy to declare that now we have good partnership with “Esculap” factory and “Simurg” manufacturing group. In the last case the relationships could had begun a little bit earlier)

We express our gratitude to everybody involved – to the sailors who tilt on these waves for the third year, and to the newcomers, no less wonderful and precious.

May God help us.

Nikolay Zinenko, CEO of Mystra.

14/06/2018

11/04/2018

On Easter week even the sea containers in front of a brick wall look alike painted eggs at the side of a panettone. Christ is risen!

28/12/2017

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Dear friends! We wish you all the best in the coming year 2018!

See our Christmas video! If you have flash-player, please click here http://mystra.ru/ny/ - it is much fun!

Love you,

TEAM OF MYSTRA. We are green in many aspects ;)

28/12/2017

GREETINGS FROM THE LEADING MANUFACTURER

In this letter, Moscow office of the "Polimerniye Izdeliya", LLC is sending us their best wishes and reminds us about two years of mutual work in promotion of national products, medical disposables, of course. Indeed, two years had passed, and so many things had happened... We've eaten a sack of salt together, as we say in Russia.

We wish a great prosperity to the factory, and to its Moscow offica, and we wish great health and lots of happiness to the whole team of "Polimerniye" in a New Year 2018!

And in 2018, we, Mystra, among other deals, will continue to promote the national disposables. Two years of pleasure doing it.

Happy New Year, dear colleagues!

Nikolay ZInenko, CEO of Mystra.

22/12/2017

ZDRAVO-EXPO 2017: GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL OF BALOO THE BEAR

What have we come to… We had already told our readers that the exhibition is decreasing in size, and that everybody knows each other, that’s why a journey for a brand new products turns into a “get together party”. And today even the atmosphere of starlings, trumpeting about their new products, disappeared, and some Katzenjammer came instead.

Nevertheless, while recent conquistadors feel their fundamentality and age-long past, a “new generation” is hurrying up to learn the market. The market itself is quite interesting. Still we don’t let them roam wildly, we’ll never teach a child to swim just by pushing him into the water from the bridge. But the scrupulous investigation of features and details, knowledge how to use widely the understood subjects in practice, and the serious control of the process of cognition – that’s ours.

The Hindu guy in the upper picture have noticed some similarities with “The Jungle Book” scenes, and asked for a photo.

06/12/2017

VET SURGEON’S STEADY HAND

We haven’t published any news for a long time. From one hand, it’s wonderful that we are such a busy persons. From the other hand – it seems that nothing interesting had happened. But that is not true. That’s why we are going to tell about our recent trip to Pushino-upon-Oka – the town of peaceful biology.

We were invited by Constantin Lapin, a sensational vet surgeon, but why he is so sensational we’ll tell you later. Some theory first.

Animal testing is unavoidable. Shampoos could be and should be tested on human being’s, but with medicines, unfortunately, it is impossible. Though it’s a great, great pity that many animals should suffer for it. Leaving the bioethics behind, let’s talk numerals. If one animal dies during the tests, it is better than ten animals dying with the same final result of the test. We can take this as an axiom.

Now, imagine that we should trace the influence of some medicine on the organism functions during some periods of time, for example, within an hour, after six hours, after twelve hours, two days later, after a month etc. And to learn the medical impact we need blood tests. Scenario №1 – we have dozen of rats, and we cut one after an hour, cut the other after the six hours, than we take the third one… It is not interesting to continue. But that wasn’t the “Doctor Moreau Chronicles”, that was the ordinary way real practice goes on.

Alternative scenario. We have one rat and take the corresponding number of blood samples from it. Does everybody like blood tests? Fine, you don’t care about animal feelings, but imagine how the creature is stressed, being punctured, and how does it result in biochemical composition of its blood.

Nevertheless, if you install the catheter directly into the jugular vein, then you can tike blood samples any time you want, and the creature will not recognize it. So – up with catheterization! But who is skilled enough for such a target? And what tiny catheter should be used?
..We go on and on endless subterranean tonnels. They divide, some of them turn instantly and disappear while we pass them. We meet people. Sometimes the signposts. But we still go on and on under the ground. Rather associative.

At last, we go up and enter the tidy surgery room. Today two tiny beasts will have surgery. Don’t worry, there will be a happy end.

One – Constantin stretch out to the surface a thin pulsating vein. Two – he enters the vein with the catheter through the microscopic puncture. Three – the proximal end of the catheter (the one with the connector) is fixed above the animal back. The rat is taken to a special cage, where it will wake up. Some time later it will give some blood for the sample, but will not notice it.
And here is the second rat. Comparing to the previous one, it doesn’t feeling well under anesthesia.

One – one more time the vein is stretched out to the surface, but this time it is flat and bloodless. “Ah, I dislike this vein, says Constantin, I dislike it completely. How should I puncture it?” One wrong movement, and a tiny ribbon of flesh, much thinner than one millimeter, will be torn apart and the animal will die. “Ah, I simply hate this vein”, says Constantin, and inserts the catheter directly into it. Three (did we miss the “Two”?) – and a catheter of different construction is fixed above the animal back. Some sewage – and one more rat on the clean sawdust is waiting for the consciousness to regain.

And that is a wonderful new trend. Constantin Lapin wasn’t only the inspirator of microcatheters manufacture – and a special team of professionals, including one of the pioneers of New Age vet medical disposables in Russia, Catherine Zhukova, was involved into the design and development - but also a bright promoter of the method itself, teaching specialists to use the catheterization in their common practice countrywide.

And Mystra…))) as usual is looking forward with some interest and has strong intention to support the expansion of this method in Russia, and also to help some old, antihuman practices to disappear, the faster - the better. Because we like animals.

21/12/2016

ARE YOU RIHARDS TO ZDRAVO-EXPO 2017?

During the whole year we were arranging the trading company everyday work. At the previous Zdravo-Expo we’ve collected some samples and catalogues, and also have learned some company names. Then, day by day, we were becoming familiar with different players in the medical disposables market field – with the manufacturers, importers, official representatives and trading companies. Each company we met was represented by a CEO, a regional manager, and often by some other fellows. And now, in the end of the year, we are visiting Zdravo-Expo again – to meet all this manufacturers, importers, representatives, companies, with their CEOs and managers not only within one exhibition, but in one pavilion, “eight-point-three”. Corporate party of the branch! With the minor exception – some were not here, some were caught in other halls, definitely suffering boredom with a trans-national corporations lights as a backdrop.

It’s one thing when you have several guys you familiar with in one exhibition hall. The different thing is when there are several unfamiliar fellows, and everybody knows each other. No one knew us by sight, besides a couple or three our major business partners, but only a bunch of men never heard about Rihards from Mystra. Since this famous person is very precise in schedule fulfilment (never running from one booth to another with a smiling muzzle like Irish Setters usually do), it’s easy to forgive cordial exhibitors for their attempts to combine my Teutonic height with a Roman-German name. Anyway, it seems that the time of misconceptions is passing by – all the telephone calls participants now materialized.

It’s really nice to find yourself among person you got to know. But I couldn’t say, that the exhibition was not informative, not at all. Lots of news, but all this news were of a new sort – not the new horizons, but the clarification of the details in the familiar field. And also a really pleasant surprises – I’m really glad that I could get acquainted with Nur Shakirov, head of the Kazan medical instruments plant, the man of the two epochs, who’s got plenty of things to learn from.

I wonder how would be the next Zdravo-Expo for us. Is it a time for a booth booking?

Nikolay Zinenko, 20th of December, 2016

17/11/2016

REFLECT ON THE THIRD QUARTER
The summer was wonderful. Not only because of holiday rest, but also because of amazing increase of gynecology disposables sales.

In the early MedSil years, while attending international disposable’s EXPOs, I was always wondering what these transparent, similar to the duck bills, tongs are. The word “vaginal speculum”, or, if to translate straightly from Russian “vaginal mirror” appeared later, but seemed alien, because these mirrors had no reflecting part. But after we’ve entered the federal supplies field, it turned out that the “gynecology sector”, where the vaginal speculums are manufactured and sold, is the separate, particularly important sphere, which has many faces, and even it’s own heroes and villains :)

Our first speculum’s auction we’ve won in Decemef of 2015, but, to tell the truth, we didn’t know anything about neither different kinds of probes and speculum, nor the hospitals demand of this items. Since that time, we’ve learned a little bit more, but still, like Phileas Fogg from Australian cartoon, remember that “The motto of the wise is - be prepared for surprises”, because the competition is rough, and manufacturers are playing hospital’s purchase departments off against suppliers, like superpowers are doing with the countries of the “following” worlds. Surprisingly, all the speculums turned out to be very similar, but the marketing tricks, hidden in the technical specifications, help the angry nurses to request vigorously on the whole delivered batch withdrawal. Fortunately, usually all the problems do not extend further.

If we turn to numbers, only within the third quarter we’ve signed contracts for supply of 300 000 speculums and 80 000 gynecology sets (a set is intended for visual examination and includes a speculum, a napkin, latex gloves and some probe, like a cervix-brush, for taking a wipe sample from mucous membrane). And these we’ve got, despite suffering bumps and bruises in correct supply documentation fulfilment, and spending lots of efforts in correct logistic system organization. Not too bad for a start-up, but… nothing is enough for a human in this life ;) always looking for some more.

“Polymerniye izdelia”, LLC (“polymerniye izdelia” means “devices made of polymers”), a manufacturer, and its representative in Moscow, “Din-Medtehnika”, LLC, deserve our particular, kind appreciation. There are many nice manufacturers, and different devices are in our stock, but with “speculums from Kazan” – do you remember the advertisements of 1990-s? – “inalterably perfect result”. Many thanks for that! :)

Nikolay Zinenko, 1st of November, 2016

19/10/2016

MEDTECH CLUSTER OF MOSCOW REGION IS CREATED

An agreement on creation and development of Medical technology cluster of Moscow region was signed on 29th of September, 2016. It happened in Special Economic Zone "Dubna" during the VII-th All-Russian research and practice conference "Pricnciples and mechanisms of national innovation system establishment.

Being the guest of the conference, Mystra's Investment Director Rihards Svelpe participated a tour around the SEZ. According to what he has seen, he could affirm that the package for the cluster participants is performed on the world class level of quality. The business incubator as a whole feels like a modern and challenging working space, and, if a company is ready to settle down in Dubna SEZ, all the necessary components for the development of engineering and manufacture on preferential terms are present.

One of the most remarkable parts of the tour, was an excursion to the two medical disposables manufacture sites. Mystra always is interested in medical disposables, and the products from the one site are well-known in our company, and are in our offer for a long time already. So, we had a possibility to check the declared quality of the goods right in the place where their life-cycle begins.

The comparison between two different manufacturer sites was also educative. One of them was established right after the fall of the Soviet Union, and no modernisation efforts were taken during the following years, so some spirit of dilapidation was in the air. The another one turned out to be neatly fresh with a new Italian design.
But! Both of them are situated in classified clean rooms, which correspond the international standards. The feeling of dilapidation or freshness is just an emotion. And more than that - we suppose that the production costs are lower in the post-soviet version. So, that's the question - what is "good" here, what is "bad", and which approach is better for business?