Alexey Ivanov, Head of Lukoil’s Production, Optimization and Coordination Department, has said that according to the company’s plans its polypropylene facilities at the Stavrolen plant, standing idle since a fire broke out in February 2014, should resume production in Q1 2015. The exact date will be determined nearer to the end of the year. Mr. Ivanov provided no detail regarding the cost of the repair effort at the plant. In a previous voicing of its plans, Lukoil said production should resume as early as in January 2015. The plant has been technologically prepared to produce polypropylene from (propylene) feedstock brought from outside since June 2014.

According to Rosstat, in the first 7 months of 2014 Russia’s output of finished polymer goods increased by 9.6% in comparison with the same period a year ago. There was a significant growth of production figures in July, and this affected the bottom-line value. While amounting to 8.6% when calculated for H1, y/y increase in production reaches as high as 9.6% when assessed for the first 7 months of the year. In January through June, a total of 302.6 thousand tonnes of pipes, hoses and fittings were produced, marking a 10.3% increase y/y. In the month of July the output of these items increased to 56 thousand tonnes from the June mark of 48.7 thousand tonnes, due to a seasonal growth in demand. The output of non-reinforced and single-layer films in the period under report amounted to 611.7 thousand tonnes, marking a y/y increase of 26.2%. Film production hit 112 […]

The holding company Sibur is looking into the possibility of building in the Tyumen Oblast of Russia a base polymer production complex named ZapSibNeftekhim, with a planned output capacity of up to 2 mn tonnes/year. The ZapSibNeftekhim complex could become the largest integrated complex ever built in the Tyumen Oblast in the Russian petrochemical industry’s history, with the project calling for the construction of crackers as well as polypropylene and polyethylene production units. The designs allow for the production of up to 1.5 mn tonnes of polyethylene and up to 0.5 mn tonnes of polypropylene per year. “Sibur is still looking into the feasibility of the project and should an investment decision be made, the company will communicate it to the general public in a separate statement,” said a company representative to ITAR TASS, a news agency.

Norica Holding S.a.r.l (a subsidiary of OJSC Acron) has announced that it increased its stake in the share capital of Grupa Azoty, a Polish firm, to 20%. Commenting on the event, Acron Group’s Vice-President Vladimir Kantor said: “We have increased our shareholding in Grupa Azoty to 20% due to our high appreciation of the synergy potential actualized by the recent consolidation of Grupa Azoty’s assets and our comprehension of the cost-cutting and resource optimization possibilities ahead. On top of that, we rely on strategic partnership between Acron Group and Grupa Azoty as a relationship that will contribute to a stable and effective development of both companies. Acron Group has built a vertically-integrated business model starting from its own extracting capacity up to global logistical and marketing infrastructure, and can offer Grupa Azoty a wide range of options for mutually beneficial cooperation. Acron has been successfully developing a raw materials base […]

Thanks to the development of its oil and gas chemical industry, Russia will be able to stop importing base polymers by 2017, said the country’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak during a meeting of the Presidential Commission on FES (Fuel and Energy Sector). “One aspect of importance that allows a country’s FES to make gains in its development and its economic efficiency is the development of its oil and gas chemical industry. This process will allow us to stop importing base polymers, polypropylene and polyethylene very soon, as soon as by 2017.”

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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. […]

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