MOSCOW (MRC) -- Nizhnekamskneftekhim Group has announced that it has started up new units for production of halobutyl rubber and production of feedstock for isoprene rubber. The company said it also started production of an import-replacing catalytic component, said the producer on its site.
In April 2015 the company has successfully started up a fourth drying line with a capacity of 40,000 t/y halobutyl rubber. In the same months the company opened a unit for the decomposition of high-boiling by-products which will allow to extract an additional 15,000 t/y of isoprene. Under the programme of import substitution the company began production in May of triisobutylaluminium at its oligomers plant. The product is used as a co-catalyst in production of polyethylene and as a catalyst in production of synthetic rubbers.
The group said that it aims to start-up a modernised alpha-olefins unit in the second half of 2015,– this will allow to substitute imports of alpha-olefins by own production. Apart from that the company announced will continue a number of projects in the area of synthetic rubbers and their raw materials, as well as a number of activities aimed at increasing effectiveness of the majority of its’ production assets .
For the purpose of further development the company continues a pre-investment study of the project for construction of a new olefins complex and integrated polyethylene and polypropylene production plants. The respective agreements for technological licenses and engineering documentation have already been signed.
PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim – one of the largest petrochemical companies in Europe, the leader in the production of synthetic rubbers and plastics in the Russian Federation. The Company is part of TAIF Group. The main production facilities are located in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan. The Company was founded in 1967. The range of products output comprises more than one hundred items, includinggeneral purpose and specialty synthetic rubber; plastics: polystyrene, polypropylene and polyethylene; monomers being a feedstock to produce rubbers and plastics; other petrochemical produce (ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, alpha-olefins, surfactants, etc).
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