MOSCOW (MRC) - Khabarovsk Pipe Insulation Plant (KhTZI) announced the expansion of its product line and entering new sales markets, the company said.
This year the plant has launched the production of pipes with foam insulation. "This technology is used in the West, in the central part of Russia. We decided to try our hand here, in the Far East, and we succeeded. We bought equipment, we made some of the tooling required for production ourselves. This year we have already won two tenders for the supply new products ", - said the general director of KhZTI Andrey Bobrov.
By the end of the year, the enterprise also plans to launch production of corrugated pipes used in electrical work. For this, an extrusion production line from China was purchased and installed, on which test samples of products have already been made.
The company's message says that the sales market for the plant's products covers almost the entire Far East. Over the entire period of work, according to the head, about 1 thousand km of pipes for heating networks and about the same amount of removable thermal insulation made of polyurethane foam (PPU) were supplied to customers.
"Unfortunately, today there are not so many orders compared to previous years. The main reason is that there has been a very serious increase in prices for raw materials and materials. Nevertheless, we expect that the situation will change soon. it is planned to build a plant for the production of liquefied gas in De-Kastri, and the Ministry of Industry of the Khabarovsk Territory assisted us to be included in the register of potential suppliers for such a large project, " - said Andrei Bobrov.
Earlier it was reported that in January 2020 Timashevsky Pipe Insulation Plant LLC, registered in Krasnodar, acquired the property complex of Pipe Insulation Plant LLC, registered in Timashevsk.
According to the ICIS-MRC Price Report, there is still a shortage of supply on the domestic market of expandable polystyrene in Russia, and the demand for the material is high. Russian manufacturers have significantly increased the price of their material this month. The spot price of EPS produced by Sibur-Khimprom and Plastik (Uzlovaya) in August was agreed at the level of Rb185,000-195,000/tonne, CPT Moscow, including VAT.
Khabarovsk Pipe Insulation Plant (KhZTI) has been operating since 2014, and today the company's production area occupies about 5 thousand square meters. The plant specializes in the production of thermal insulation for networks, removable thermal insulation in the form of polyurethane foam pipes and pre-insulated pipes of two categories, as well as in the production of pipes and fittings in polyurethane foam insulation.
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