Lukoil preparing to tender service contract with Azerbaijan

(petrolworld) -- Lukoil has announced that it is prepared to award a tender to a company looking to supply petrol management systems and other equipment to fuel service stations in Azerbaijan. The contract is one of several that the company plans to offer for business in 2012 that will last through the coming years.

Lukoil said that it plans to procure the systems from manufacturers based in the USA, Japan and the EU, and that any companies interested in the contract should have the necessary experience in dealing with supply management systems and be willing to do business through locally spoken languages.

It said that bids will be accepted until November 25 and that the winning company will be announced 20 days later, on the December 15.

Lukoil is Russia's second largest oil company and its second largest producer of oil. Headquartered in Moscow, Lukoil is the second largest public company (next to ExxonMobil) in terms of proven oil and gas reserves. The company has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.
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MOSCOW (MRC) – On Tuesday, 6, November Ukrainian Parliament adopted a law to increase import duties on dozens of goods. The polymers were not included into the group under this law, as per MRC analysts.

Ukrainian Parliament on 6, November adopted in the second reading of the law 9241 "Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Customs Tariff of Ukraine" (regarding the import duty reduction to WTO criteria). The law was adopted by a majority of deputies – 364 votes.

The authors of the law admitted that additional annual tax revenue for the increased import duties can make about USD2bln. However, in the latest amendment all the polymer group was completely removed. Thus the changed import duties do not apply on polymers and the ready products made of them.

Initially law 9241 “Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Customs Tariff of Ukraine" from 30, March 2012 supposed an increase in import duties to the maximum possible 6.5% as in WTO for many polymers (FEACN code 39). In particular the increasing import duties could bear on large volume polymers like ethylene, propylene, styrene, unmixed PVC and PET, which Ukraine completely imported.

In the final version of the law from 5, November, all polymer group (FEACN 39, polymers and products made of them) was completely removed from the list of goods under the increasing import duty.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Engel, the largest producer of injection moulding machinery worldwide and a leader in the field of injection moulding technology, has introduced a new high-precision, all-electric e-motion injection moulding machine for food containers production with an integrated barrier layer.

ENGEL has succeeded in combining barrier technology with thin-wall injection moulding thanks to co-injection of polypropylene (PP) and EVOH. ENGEL provides maximum productivity with low energy consumption, while at the same time ensuring that the EVOH barrier layer of just 0.05 mm thickness is reliably implemented right to the edges.

As MRC informed earlier, Engel has invested 2.3 m euros in its facility in Dietach, Austria in order to introduce synchronised line assembly and modernise the machine farm in its robot plant, according to plastech. The latest investment in Dietach sees the third Austrian production facility follow suit. Beside, ENGEL is opening its fourth subsidiary for the German market near Stuttgart in January in line with the company's strategy to increase its maket share.
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(Sonoco) -- Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has completed expansion at its Waynesville, N.C., thermoforming location, where it will start up a new multilayer, trim-in-place line.

According to Rodger Fuller, vice president of Rigid Plastics, Sonoco's new line is being installed now and will be ready for full production in December. This new machine will enable the production of a wide variety of containers with the added capability of complex shapes for chilled foods, as well as thermally processed shelf stable food products.

"This investment in large-scale multilayer polypropylene (PP) production complements our existing capabilities for processed food packaging, which include crystallized polyethylene terephthalate (CPET) and polypropylene frozen food trays; portion control cups; and blow molded bottles for retorted and aseptically processed beverages," said Fuller.

Sonoco Plastics is a leading manufacturer of monolayer and multilayer blow-molded bottles and jars, thermoformed cups and trays and engineered molded and extruded containers, spools and trays, with 25 plastics operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany.
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(plastics infomart) -- Arkema has developed and introduced a new resin technology for bonding Kynar polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) to polyolefin resins in portable water piping.

Kynar PVDF can be extruded and bonded with Kynar ADX as a barrier layer to a polyolefin multilayer pipe system that is reliable and long lasting. This multilayer piping combines the benefits of polyolefin (high flexibility, therefore supplied in coils for easy installation) with those of PVDF resin: high chemical resistance, high purity, low biofilm formation, long service life and very low permeation (for safe transportation of water through contaminated land).

This product can withstand disinfectants such as chlorine, chlorine dioxide, chloramines, sodium hypochlorite, hypochlorous acid, and other aggressive chemicals added to drinking water. 150km of this multilayer piping have already been installed by water companies in France to the full satisfaction of end-users and municipalities, according to Arkema.

We remind that earlier this year, Akrema announced its 2016 ambition to become a world leader in specialty chemicals and advanced materials. The acquisition of Hipro Polymers and Casda Biomaterials in China beginning of this year and the divestment of its Vinyl business beginning of July, were the last steps of the highly successful turnaround of Arkema into a strong player in specialty chemicals.
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