Russia to flood Europe with PET as Alko-Nafta builds giant plant in Kaliningrad

5/3/2010

Russia's Alko-Nafta is set to start construction of a new PET polymer factory with capacity of 240,000 tonnes per year in the city of Kaliningrad in the first half of 2010, news portal eplastics.pl reported.

The Kaliningrad plant will be the fourth PET factory in Russia, and also the largest, double in size compared to the second-ranked Blagoveschensk complex of Polief.

With the new investment, total PET production capacity in Russia will rise to 535,000 tonnes annually, a volume equivalent to pre-crisis demand for the polymer in Russia.

Of the Kaliningrad plant's output, 40% will serve the domestic market and the rest will be earmarked for exports.

Technology and equipment will be provided by Germany's Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH, involving a completely automated process for making PET granules.

Source: Eplastics