По состоянию на 2014 год около 60% продовольствия в Россию импортируется. Главным условием восстановления продовольственной безопасности страны является увеличение урожайности всех видов культурных растений в результате кратного увеличения потребления удобрений и воссоздания минерального состава почв.В 1990 году из 16 млн тонн произведенных удобрений 13,2 млн тонн, или 75%, поставлялись на внутренний рынок. В 2013 году из 18,2 млн тонн произведенных удобрений лишь 2,4 млн тонн, или 6%, применены в целях отечественного производства.  Урожайность культур в России в 1,5-2 раза ниже, чем в конкурирующих экономиках. Пахотные земли предельно истощены. Складская база минеральной химии разрушена. Система дистрибуции требует сокращения посреднических схем и включения механизмов антимонопольного и тарифного регулирования. (Рост отпускной цены составляет от 4500 руб. за тонну у производителя  до 13200 руб. за тонну для конечного потребителя).Вместе с тем, отдельные регионы РФ сумели взять под контроль размеры поставок на внутренний рынок, уровень отпускных цен, обеспечить недискриминационный доступ к ресурсам, сохранить или восстановить […]

Tatarstan government officials and representatives of major firms based in the region have met at a session of the Republic’s Economic Council to discuss steps aimed at supporting Tatarstan’s industry. Tatarstan’s President pointed out in his opening speech that the Republic spent more than RUB 160 bn last year on products brought from abroad, with almost a third of the sum expended on petrochemical products. An additional RUB 200 bn per year is being spent on buying products in other regions of the Russian Federation (RF), with the list of purchases composed mainly of mechanical engineering goods, transport vehicles and food items. In Tatarstan itself, business output totaled just over RUB 1.5 trillion in 2013, including intangible products (services and trade operations). “Tatarstan’s import substitution potential is most prominent in two fields, the machine building and the chemical industry. The region’s machinery imports currently amount to over $4 bn per […]

According to Bloomberg, OJSC Eurochem intends to get ahead of the potash market leader Uralkali by 2019 thanks to the anticipated launch of two currently developed potash deposits. “We expect both mines to start production by the end of 2017,” said Clark Bailey, Eurochem’s Mining Director, in an interview to the agency. It will take up to two years after that to start exporting potash abroad, said he. The mines currently under construction, one located at the Verkhnekamskoe deposit in the Perm Krai, the other at the Gremyachinskoe deposit in the Volgograd Oblast, are being built in two stages to yield an annual combined output of 8.3 mn tonnes of potash. “Our project boasts a lower cost of construction per tonne of potash capacity than is needed to get a return on investment,” said Mr. Bailey. “Considering the fact that we have a port terminal on the Black Sea, we […]

National Chemical Group has plans to launch the construction of an industrial production complex near the port of Vostochny in the next few months. A statement to that effect was made by the company’s CEO Nikolay Sabitov during a meeting in Yakutsk chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin and devoted to the provision of state support to investment projects and advanced development territories in the country’s Far East. “At this stage, we’ve completed pre-project planning, selected a site located near the port of Vostochny, and are ready to commence the actual construction effort in the next few months,” said Mr. Sabitov, according to the records of the meeting. The first stage of the complex will be able to produce 1 mn tonnes of commercial-grade ammonia, 2 mn tonnes of urea and 1 mn tonnes of methanol per year. It will consume 3.2 bn cubic meters of natural gas per year. […]

Vasily Nomokonov, a Managing Director at Sibur, gave a talk at the 21st World Petroleum Congress, describing the global challenges and opportunities faced by Russia’s petrochemistry field. Vasily Nomokonov pointed out that in the last 10 years the country’s petrochemical industry has been keeping ahead of the oil extraction field and the national GDP in terms of growth rate. Petrochemistry’s relative contribution to the GDP grew in this period, highlighting the field’s potential as one of the drivers of the country’s economy. In the years 2010-2013, Sibur’s investment totaled RUB 239 bn, or 78% of its EBITDA for this period. Experts estimate that Russia’s polymer demand will grow by an average of 8% each year in the near-term, based on the current per capita polymer consumption figure for the CIS countries, which is below 20% of the level registered for Germany and the US and is 33.3% less than that of […]

According to Rosstat, Russia’s industrial production index in May 2014 equaled 102.8% when compared with the data for the same period a year ago; for the period spanning Jan-May 2014, the figure is 101.7%. Chemical production index in May 2014 amounted to 96.8% y/y, in Jan-May 2014, to 103.6%. The country’s polymers output totaled 512 thousand tonnes in May, marking a 1.5% decline in y/y terms and a decline of 1.3% from April 2014, while its Jan-May 2014 polymers output turned out to be 1.8% higher than in the same period of 2013. In the month of May, polyethylene (PE) output equaled 120 thousand tonnes, which was 23.5% less than in May last year and just 0.9% less than in April 2014. In this year’s Jan-May period, a total of 694 thousand tonnes of PE was produced. Polypropylene (PP) output in the period under report equaled 95.8 thousand tonnes, marking […]

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