Polief PET capacity expanded

5 May, 2014
Метки: интервью, нефтегазопереработка, сланцевый газ

Polief, part of Sibur, has completed a project called to expand its capacity to produce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and is now able to turn out 210 instead of 140 thousand tonnes of the product each year. The output expansion efforts included reconstruction of the existing PET facilities as well as the construction of a new production line. The aims of the project were to set up facilities able to process the company’s own output of terephthalic acid (TPA) and to substitute foreign sources of PET in certain segments of the Russian PET market. The project has been placed on Bashkortostan Republic’s list of priority projects. The Russian market has consumed 580 thousand tonnes of PET in 2013, producing 405 thousand tonnes. The gap was filled by imported product. Russia’s per capita use of PET is 4.1 kg, while in Western Europe it is 6.6 kg, in the USA, 9.5 kg. […]

Российский рейтинг

1 May, 2014
Метки: государственная политика, рынки, статистика

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Крымская химия

1 May, 2014
Метки: агрохимия, государственная политика, рынки

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Виды на городскую помойку

18 April, 2014
Метки: ТБО, экология

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Негативный тренд на шинном рынке

4 April, 2014
Метки: полимеры, рынки

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Head of FAS signs document postponing apatite concentrate market liberalization

27 March, 2014
Метки: нефтегазопереработка, санкции

Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemiev has signed a document extending the transition period on the apatite concentrate market until the end of 2016, a step that postpones the liberalization of the market for at least a year. A set of recommendations issued by the FAS in 2012 contains a special formula used to calculate concentrate prices during the transition period (with two options provided: 70 % of apatite price in Morocco + 30 % of the average price offered by the producer to domestic customers over the previous year; or 35 % of the minimum export price + 35 % of the Morocco price + 30 % of the domestic market price). The transition period was initially set to last until the end of 2013, and starting in the year of 2014, according to the FAS’s previous proposal, the price was to be “based on the minimum […]