MOSCOW (MRC) -- Kazanorgsintez (part of TAIF group), Russia's largest polyethylene (PE) producer, has completed the modernization of its two production sites. The modernization will also allow to increase the plant's production of pipe grade PE, reported MRC analysts.
Last Friday, 11 December, Kazanorgsintez fully completed upgrading of its two production sites. The modernization of the first production unit will increase the proportion of ethane feedstock in the PE production. The second revamp process was held at the production line of carbon-black-extended pipe grade HDPE of PE 100 grade.
The company said a new two-chamber cracking furnace Technip E-100 was launched instead of the old-fashioned and worn-out furnaces. The start-up of a new furnace with the capacity of 36 tonnes per hour (or 138,000 tonnes of ethylene per year) that uses ethane-propane feedstock will increase the proportion of the ethane feedstock in the PE production and will ensure a stable and uninterrupted operations at Complex E-500 (a complex of cracking furnaces) and the plant as a whole.
The launch of a new compounding line of Coperion company at the plant's high density polyethylene (HDPE) production, at Reactor A, will increase the production capacity of popular and light-stabilized carbon-black-extended PE 100 grade for pipes production by 30-50%. Before the start-up of the new compounding line, Kazanorgsintez's total production capacity of carbon-black-extended PE 100 grade was about 160,000 tonnes per year. With the launch of new capacities, the plant will be able to reach the level of 240,000 tonnes per year.
PJSC "Kazanorgsintez" (part of TAIF group) is one of the largest plants of the Russian Federation. It produces over 38% of all Russian polyethylene (PE) and is its largest exporter. To date, Kazanorgsintez produces polyethylene, PE pipes, phenol, acetone, bisphenol A, polycarbonates. Overall, the plant manufactures 170 different products. The plant's annual output is 1.6 million tonnes.
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