Main construction works complete in Omsk polypropylene plant

(Vesti) - In Omsk polypropylene plant the establishment of new forty meters high reactor was completed. This was the main and one of the most important steps in construction works. Today the establishment of technological equipment is on going. Launch of the facility is scheduled for the end of this year.



The project of polypropylene plant is included into Omsk oblast investment program. The plant is going to produce up to 180 kt of over 80 polypropylene grades annually. Such a wide range isn't offered by any of existing Russian companies.



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Aramco and Total start negotiations about new perochemical plant

June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Aramco, the world's largest state-owned oil company, and Total SA are discussing building a petrochemicals plant alongside a joint refinery project that they are developing at Jubail.

The partners began talks more than a year ago about building a cracker that could use byproducts from the joint refinery, Michel Govaerts, Total's general manager for business development in the Middle East and Asia, said today.

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Krauss Maffei improves financial results in 2010

(prw) -- With incoming orders up 25% on the same time last year, KraussMaffei Group CEO Dr Dietmar Straub is ⌠cautiously optimistic that the plastics machinery maker has seen the worst of the downturn and predicts a return to sales growth in its next financial year.

Speaking in Zurich at a meeting to lay out the group's plans for the K fair in the autumn, Straub said he expected sales for the period to the end of September this year to total around ┬750m.

That result will be slightly ahead of the 2009 sales of ┬742m but a long way short of the record figure of ┬1.05bn achieved in the 2007-2008 financial year. However, with incoming orders for 2009-2010 predicted to amount to around ┬800m (total incoming orders for last year amounted to ┬644m), Straub believes the group - which includes KraussMaffei, Netstal and Berstorff - is firmly back on a growth path.

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Battenfeld-Cincinnati introduces a new extruder

(prw) -- Battenfeld-Cincinnati has created a new extruder which it claims is ideal for newcomers to the wood plastic composites (WPC) market.

⌠The wide range of outputs of the conical counter-rotating machine, from 90 to 275 kg/h, makes it possible to extrude a great variety of different profiles with only one machine - an attribute frequently demanded especially by newcomers. - says the firm.

The fiberexK72 can produce pre-blended compounds as well as agglomerates based on PVC, PE or PP. It comes with closed-loop screw core tempering, AC drive and a vacuum unit with twin filter as standard.

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Borouge starts commercial production in Ruwais

(plastemart) -- Borouge has started operations at key units - ethane cracker and polyethylene plant of the US$5 bln, phase two expansion of its facility at Ruwais. This 1.5 mln tpa cracker is the world's biggest ethane cracker, and will take 12 to 18 months to ramp up production to full capacity. Borouge is also starting the biggest olefins conversion unit of 750,000 tons, converting ethylene to propylene. Two polypropylene plants, with 400,000 tpa capacity, are part of the second-phase expansion project and will be started up in the next few months. The expansion will bring the company's total production capacity to two mln tpa.

MRCMRC Reference

Borealis. The share in the Russian market in 2008:

polyethylene - 4.1% (including HDPE - 4.7%, LLDPE - 8.7%);
polypropylene - 3.2% (PP-impact - 7.5%).

Annual sales growth in Russia over the last 5 years:
polyethylene - 11%;
polypropylene - 6%.

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extrusion coating;
cable extrusion;
injection molding.