MOSCOW (MRC) -- SIBUR, the largest petrochemical holding in Russia and Eastern Europe and Russia’s largest supplier of material for PET containers, has opposed restrictions on bottling beer in plastic bottles, as per RBK.
"By declaring the course for imports substitution, the state does not always support it with the concrete initiatives" - wrote SIBUR’s CEO Dmitriy Konov in the article "The industrial policy: Imports substitution without speculation".
Thus, he gave an example of a possible limitation of circulation of PET packaging (plastic bottles) for bear bottling, "the industry for the production of which has grown in Russia from a scratch to almost a complete coverage of the domestic market for the last 10 years".
"It's a niche for at least three petrochemical segments - PET (bottles), polypropylene (caps), BOPP films (labels)," - said D.Konov.
SIBUR is a vertically integrated gas processing and petrochemicals company. SIBUR owns and operates Russia’s largest gas processing business in terms of associated petroleum gas processing volumes and is a leader in the Russian petrochemicals industry. SIBUR operates 26 production sites in various regions of Russia. The Group employs 26,000 people. The Company sells its products to over 1,400 major customers engaged in the energy, automotive, construction, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), chemical and other industries in approximately 70 countries worldwide.
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