MOSCOW (MRC) - SIBUR Holding can enter the market with the offer of recycled PET within about 1.5 years, said Sergei Komyshan, Executive Director of SIBUR, during a press conference.
The executive director of SIBUR Sergey Komyshan said that the company is successfully moving in the development of a project for the production of secondary PET.
Recycled polymer packaging made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can begin to be used in SIBUR's technological processes in the coming years. PET-flex - a secondary raw material, the result of sorting and grinding PET bottles into flakes, the Holding plans to use in the production of primary polyethylene terephthalate (PET) at Polyef (Blagoveshchensk, Bashkortostan, part of SIBUR Holding).
In November 2019, SIBUR and EcoTechnology Group of Companies signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of sustainable development, according to the website of the petrochemical holding. The purpose of the partnership is to establish mutually beneficial cooperation aimed at developing a closed-loop economy, namely the recycling of polymer packaging.
In January, the SIBUR Board of Directors approved a strategy for the sustainable development of the company. One of the goals is to increase by 50% investments in R&D projects aimed at processing polymer waste and involving renewable sources of raw materials, building an effective system of interaction on sustainable development throughout the supply chain, as well as achieving a share of PET production with secondary granule content from the total PET production in the amount of not less than 40%.
According to ScanPlast of Market Report, last year, the import of PET granules to Russia increased by 13% compared to 2018 and amounted to 144.8 thousand tons compared to 128.5 thousand tons (excluding supplies from Belarus over the past two month). Last month, import deliveries of material to the Russian market increased by 10% to 13.6 thousand tons against 12.3 thousand tons in November; last December, material imports amounted to 12.4 thousand tons.
It was previously reported that on October 9, 2019, industrial wastewater partially entered the territory adjacent to the enterprise due to the collapse of a fragment of the wall of the reserve tank.
EcoTechnology Group of Companies is an integrated Russian operator that has been implementing projects in Russia in the field of municipal solid waste sorting, recycling and separate waste collection, as well as social and educational programs since 2005. Today it is one of the largest plastic processors in Russia.
Polyef JSC (Blagoveshchensk, Republic of Bashkortostan) is a part of SIBUR, the only producer of terephthalic acid and the largest supplier of polyethylene terephthalate in Russia. The capacity for the production of TPA after modernization is 350 thousand tons per year, PET - 219 thousand tons per year.
SIBUR is a vertically integrated gas processing and petrochemical company, operating at 26 production sites located in various regions of the Russian Federation. SIBUR sells products to more than 1.4 thousand consumers in the fuel and energy complex, the automotive industry, construction, production of consumer goods, chemical and other industries in 75 countries of the world.
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