MOSCOW (MRC) -- The total amount of R&P POLYPLASTIC’s expenditures for activities on protecting its employees from COVID-19 and resisting further spread of coronavirus in 2020 equaled to over 2.4 million Rubles, said the company.
In total almost 1 400 pairs of gloves and 16 000 protection single use and reusable masks were purchased for the company’s production plants. R&P POLYPLASTIC compensated the cost of COVID-19 test to their employees and purchased express-tests. Industrial premises were cleaned with special means of disinfection, all public areas were equipped with antibacterial gels and sanitizers.
The cost of protective measures amounted to 1.8 million Rubles and in terms of equivalent amount for each worker – 3 292 Rubles/person. The amount is comparable to similar costs of petrochemical industry giants.
Moreover, R&P POLYPLASTIC allocated over half a million Rubles for combating coronavirus in its regions of presence handing over 10 thousand medical gloves and four oxygen concentrators to medical institutions of the Samara and Saratov regions.
As per MRC, POLYPLASTIC invests over 3.3 million Euros into expansion of production. Within the frame of a new investment project, R&P POLYPLASTIC – a Russian plastics producer – and KraussMaffei have recently concluded a contract for the delivery of two ZE 80 x 42D BluePower twin-screw extruders to extend the company's production capacity. Due to travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, both parties conducted the entire contract negotiations online remotely and signed the contract at the end of October. This contract further strengthens the long-standing, constructive and solution-oriented cooperation between R&P POLYPLASTIC and KraussMaffei.
We remind that Russia's output of chemical products rose in November 2020 by 9.5% year on year. At the same time, production of basic chemicals increased in the first eleven months of 2020 by 6.6% year on year, according to Rosstat's data. According to the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation, polymers in primary form accounted for the greatest increase in the January-November 2020 output. November production of polymers in primary form rose to 896,000 tonnes from 852,000 tonnes in October. Overall output of polymers in primary form totalled 9,240,000 tonnes over the stated period, up by 17.1% year on year.
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