MOSCOW (MRC) -- PJSC "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" (NKNKh, part of TAIF) has decided on a contractor for the construction of a new polypropylene (PP) plant, said the company.
Thus, on 6 August, 2021, in Kazan, in the head office of TAIF JSC, three contracts were signed between NKNKh and the Chinese company China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) for the construction of a PP production with a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year based on LyondellBasell's Spheripoll technology.
Contracts were concluded for the provision of design services and the supply of documentation; for the purchase and supply of equipment, as well as for the provision of technical consulting services. The documents were signed by Airat Safin, General Director of Nizhnekamskneftekhim PJSC, and Fan Yangshui, President of China Machinery Engineering Corporation.
These contracts are linked by a tripartite framework agreement, in which China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Co., Ltd. is the main design subcontractor for CMEC.
According to the statement, NKNKh is already one of the leaders in this segment in the Russian Federation. After the commissioning of a new PP production facility, Nizhnekamskneftekhim will almost triple its PP output and become one of the largest PP producers in Europe.
As MRC reported earlier, the construction of the NKNKh's olefin complex was completed by 30% in July, 2021. The construction of the olefin complex is carried out within the framework of a memorandum of strategic cooperation concluded in June 2017 between TAIF Group, which includes Nizhnekamskneftekhim, and the German company Linde AG. The basic agreement on the design, supply of equipment and provision of services for the commissioning of the first stage of the future plant was signed between Nizhnekamskneftekhim and the Linde Engineering division. In February 2019, a contract for construction and installation works was signed with the Turkish company Gemont. The planned completion date for the construction and installation works of the olefin complex is July 2023.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, PP shipments to the Russian market were 727,160 tonnes in the first six months of 2021, up by 31% year on year. Shipments of propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) and block copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymer) increased. Supply of injection moulding statistical copolymer of propylene (PP-random) has decreased.
PJSC "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" (NKNKh) is one of the largest Russian manufacturers of petrochemical products. The industrial complex of the company includes ten major production plants and ten departments (Railway Transport, Ethylene pipelines, etc..). NKNKh produces more than 120 types of chemical products, including synthetic rubber, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, surfactants. Nizhnekamskneftekhim is a member of TAIF Group of Companies.
China HuanQiu Contracting and Engineering Corporation (HQC) is a subsidiary of China Petroleum Engineering Corp. Ltd. - China National Petroleum Corporation. The company specializes in the construction of refineries, petrochemical plants and chemical fertilizer plants associated with oil refineries and mining plants.
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