Plasma is a joint stock company with personnel exceeding 1000 employees; it incorporates ten production centers engaged in development and production of science-intensive and high-tech devices including gas lasers, plasma display panels(pdps) and pdp-based information displays, gas discharge switching and protective devices, as well as consumer goods of a high demand, such as meat-processing equipment, metal-polymer pipes, vacuum and gas-filled double glass panes and so on.