Polypropylene plant in Omsk equiped with homogenizers

(GTRK Omsk) -- Homogenizers were installed today at Omsk polypropylene plant. These are capacities for mixing and sorting finished products.

It took a month to install homogenizers with 14 tonne heavy and 26 meters high. All the construction technology and welding was mad by Netherlands representatives. All those homogenizers are going to receive finished PP in granules and carefully mix it to make finish product homogenous. The volume of one capacity forms 600 cubic meters To to taltally fullfill it, the plant should work for 14 hours.

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(INEOS) -- INEOS ChlorVinyls has today announced a price increase of Euro 50 per dry metric tonne, for Quarter Three 2010 caustic soda business, due to reduced margins on the electro-chemical unit and the continuing low stocks position. This will be applied as contracts permit.

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(EmiratesBusiness) -- Borouge, the Abu Dhabi-based petrochemicals giant, will activate the first cracker of its second unit by the end of this month.

The company, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Austria's Borealis, will activate units to convert ethylene to polyethylene and polyethylene to polypropylene in a phased manner, and will begin exports from its completed Borouge II unit by November this year.

The company now manufactures about 600,000 tonnes of polyethylene. The new additions will add 800,000 tonnes of polypropylene and 540,000 tonnes of polyethylene manufacturing capacity.

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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%.

Leader in polymers processing technologies:
extrusion coating;
cable extrusion;
injection molding.

(plastemart) -- Rising from 60,000 tpa, annual production of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) at Iran's Bandar Imam Khomeini Petrochemical Company will rise to 150,000 tons. 445 billion rials have been spent on implementation of the expansion project.

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(PlasticsToday) -- Its exports sank last year but the Chinese domestic market proved strong enough to drive sales and earnings higher for Haitian, the world's largest manufacturer of injection molding machinery. CTO Helmar Franz predicts continued growth for the company.

Haitian's (Ningbo, China) 2009 sales increased 4.5% versus 2008, with profits also up by 1.3% on sales of about 18,000 molding machines. According to the Association of the Plastics Industry China, the total value of output of the Chinese plastics processing industry declined just 0.2% in 2009. "Our goal remains to be the largest injection molding machine manufacturer in number of machines made and sales...e think we're number 3 or 4 in sales now. We predict we'll be number 1 in the net three years," said Franz.

For Haitian, almost as important to the continued level of business was Chinese processors' willingness to invest in domestically made processing machinery. Franz said that in 2008, about 49% of all processing machinery was imported to China; for 2009 that figure shrank to just 29%.

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