MOSCOW (MRC) -- KHPC, a sole producer of polycarbonate (PC) in Iran, has started exporting different grades of PC to Russian market since April 2015, said Sirjangostar Global Group (SGG) in its press release sent to MRC with reference to the statement of Dr. Hosseini, SGG's President, which he made to Iranian Press.
KHPC finished its fundamental maintenance in early April and now is operating with 70% capacity utilisation and planning to increase production in a short time. It is planned to produce new PC grades, such as bottle and optical grades, this year and produce at least 25,000 MT varieties of PC grades.
Dr. Hosseini also adds 'as the sanctions against Iran is about to lift, this will allow KHPC to start offering its cargos to European market too".
He also mentioned "Russian market imported 35,000 MT of different PC grades to the country, therefore there is a good potential for KHPC to cover at least 10% of the market share for the year 2015".
At the moment, KHPC exports PC to Turkey, India, China, UAE, Vietnam and etc.
We remind that, as MRC reported earlier, currently number of active Iranian Petrochemical complexes are 53, with total production capacity of 59 million metric ton, producing range of polymers, chemicals, aromatics & liquid gas, located mainly at Iranian south region, next to Persian Gulf, called Assaluyeh and Mahshahr Special Economic Zones.
At the moment, there are 67 developments projects in the country which are under construction, adding 61 million metric ton on total production and estimated to fully run till 2018.
MRC