MOSCOW (MRC) -- Biaxplen, part of Russia's petrochemicals giant Sibur, has expanded its export of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film to the European market, said the producer in its press-release.
Biaxplen states that its products are now being shipped to Spain and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"The European market with its well-developed infrastructure and transparent practices is one of the most attractive for Biaxplen. Over the last year, we geared up to expand Russian supplies to this market as two new BOPP production lines were launched, in Tomsk and Novokuybyshevsk, boosting Biaxplen's overall capacity by over 60 percent. Today, our company's five sites are capable of producing up to 180 metric tons of BOPP film yearly," said Ilya Papusha, sales and marketing director of Biaxplen in a news release.
Biaxplen says its European Union exports of BOPP film account for 17% of total sales.
As MRC wrote before, Biaxplen in May 2014 launched a new biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film production line in Novokuybyshevsk. Following the launch of the new 30.5 ktpa production line manufactured by Bruckner Maschinenbau, a German company, BOPP-film annual nameplate production capacity of Biaxplen's Novokuybyshevsk branch increased to 55.5 kt. Investment in the project exceeded RR 1.9 billion.
Biaxplen a subsidiary company of SIBUR Holding is a leading biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film producer in Russia. Biaxplen's facilities consist of five production sites located in Novokuybyshevsk, Kursk, Balakhna (Nizhegorodsky region), Zheleznodorozhniy (Moscow region) and in Tomsk.
MRC