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Cryoin Engineering
Ukrainian specialty gas company (Odesa/Odessa, Ukraine); one of the two major Ukrainian semiconductor-grade neon producers before and during the 2022 Russian invasion. Cryoin's Odesa facility processes crude neon from Ukrainian steel mill ASUs into semiconductor-grade product (5N purity — 99.999%) for export to Asian and European chip manufacturers. Unlike Ingas in Mariupol, Cryoin's Odesa facility was not directly destroyed in the early months of the war — Odesa, while subject to missile attacks, remained under Ukrainian control. Cryoin reportedly supplied approximately 20-30% of global semiconductor-grade neon pre-war. Cryoin's continued operations represent a tenuous supply lifeline for semiconductor manufacturers — operating in a country at war, subject to electricity shortages, and under constant threat from Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure (which Russia systematically targeted starting in late 2022). Each Russian strike on Ukrainian power infrastructure disrupted Cryoin's neon purification operations.
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5 inputs Cryoin Engineering supplies
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Xenon Gas — Space Propulsion & Electronic Grade →
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Crude Neon (ASU Byproduct) →
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Krypton Gas — Satellite Propulsion & Insulating Glass →
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Neon Gas (Semiconductor-Grade, for Excimer Lasers) →
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Neon Gas (Chip-Grade) →
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Cryoin Engineering - Odesa, Ukraine →
UAPrimary Ukrainian xenon/neon/krypton air separation plant; production suspended after Russian invasion 2022; partial recovery by 2023; byproduct of Odesa steel mill oxygen production
Cryoin Odessa Neon Facility →
UAOdessa, Ukraine · neon extraction and purification
Legacy Soviet-era air separation byproduct extraction. Halted February 24, 2022 upon Russia invasion. Represented part of the 45-54% Ukraine share of global semiconductor-grade neon.
Cryoin Odessa Plant (Halted) →
UAOdessa Oblast · processing
Cryoin Engineering rare gas purification facility in Odessa, Ukraine. Halted all operations on February 24, 2022 (day of Russian invasion). Pre-war capacity ~10,000-15,000 m³/month chip-grade neon. Cryoin launched South Korea JV ('Cryoin Korea' with JI Tech) to relocate production capacity outside Ukraine; operational 2024-2026. Source: https://www.openpr.com/news/4399709/cryoin-korea-jv-scaling-global-rare-gas-production-beyond-ukraine
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Semiconductor-Grade Neon (5N)
55%Xenon (Electronic & Space Grade)
25%Krypton (Satellite & Insulating Glass)
15%Crude Gas Processing & Other Rare Gases
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Did you know2023
Cryoin Engineering's Odesa facility simultaneously supplies semiconductor neon for chip lithography AND xenon/krypton for satellite ion thrusters — two supply chains with no apparent connection. The neon from Cryoin's stills goes to excimer laser manufacturers serving TSMC and Samsung. The xenon from the same stills goes to space propulsion systems used in commercial satellite constellations. SpaceX switched Starlink V1.5/V2 to krypton thrusters (also produced by Cryoin) specifically because Ukraine's krypton supply was available and cheaper than xenon. A single Ukrainian company in Odesa — which ships noble gases purified from steel mill waste streams — is simultaneously a critical input supplier for semiconductor lithography (chips), satellite networks (space), and building insulation (construction). Each end market belongs to a completely separate 'goods' category in a supply chain radar.
Cryoin Engineering Ltd. ↗Concentration2023
Cryoin Engineering LLC (Odesa, Ukraine) continued operating during the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war despite Odesa being subject to Russian cruise missile and drone attacks throughout the conflict — attacks that specifically targeted Ukraine's power generation and distribution infrastructure starting in autumn 2022. Cryoin's neon purification operations require continuous, stable electricity supply for their cryogenic distillation processes. Each Russian missile strike on Ukrainian power infrastructure directly disrupted Cryoin's neon output, even when the facility itself was not physically damaged. Western semiconductor manufacturers (TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix, Intel) — all of whom were working to qualify alternative neon sources after the invasion — remained partially dependent on Cryoin's intermittent wartime output throughout 2022-2024. The Russian missile campaign against Ukrainian electricity was simultaneously an energy warfare tactic, a civilian humanitarian attack, and an inadvertent supply chain disruption for East Asian and American semiconductor fabs.
Cryoin Engineering LLC ↗Capacity2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 revealed the extreme geographic concentration of global noble gas supply. Ukraine (primarily Cryoin in Odesa and Ingas in Mariupol) supplied approximately 45-55% of global semiconductor-grade neon before the war. Within weeks of the invasion: neon spot prices rose 500%+; Ingas in Mariupol was destroyed; Cryoin's Odesa facility suspended operations initially. The supply shock prompted chip manufacturers (Samsung, TSMC, Intel, Micron) to declare force majeure situations, emergency ration existing gas inventories, and accelerate qualification of alternative suppliers in China and the US. Russia's deliberate targeting of Ukrainian power infrastructure from October 2022 onward — knocking out substations and transmission lines — continued to disrupt Cryoin's operations even after initial resumption, because neon purification requires continuous power for cryogenic separation.
Reuters ↗Origin2023
Cryoin Engineering was established in Odesa, Ukraine after Soviet industrial assets were privatized in the 1990s. The Soviet steel industry had built massive air separation units (ASUs) at integrated steel mills to supply oxygen for the blast furnaces — and these ASUs produced crude neon, krypton, and xenon as byproducts, since these noble gases are present in air at trace levels (neon: 18 ppm, krypton: 1.1 ppm, xenon: 0.09 ppm). Ukraine's large steel sector (Mariupol, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih) provided an unusually concentrated source of crude noble gas byproduct. Cryoin was founded to purify these crude gases to semiconductor-grade purity for export. By 2020, Ukraine (Cryoin + Ingas) supplied approximately 45-55% of global semiconductor-grade neon — a fact that was largely unknown until Russia invaded in February 2022 and neon prices spiked 500%+ overnight.
Cryoin Engineering Ltd. ↗