Russia’s Kazanorgsintez raises pipe grade HDPE production capacity

MOSCOW (MRC)–Kazanorgsintez (part of TAIF group), Russia’s largest polyethylene (PE) producer, has completed the modernisation of two production sites in Kazan, MRC analysts said on Monday.

The modernisation will increase the production of pipe grade PE.

On Friday 11 December, Kazanorgsintez fully completed upgrading the two production sites. The modernisation 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 high density PE (HDPE) of PE 100 grade.

The company said a new two-chamber cracking furnace Technip E-100 was launched instead of the older, 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) which 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 plants 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/year. With the launch of new capacities, the plant will be able to reach the level of 240,000 tonnes/year.

PJSC ‘Kazanorgsintez’ (part of TAIF group) is one of the largest plants of the Russian Federation. It produces over 38% of all Russian PE and is its largest exporter.

To date, Kazanorgsintez produces PE, PE pipes, phenol, acetone, bisphenol A, and polycarbonates. Overall, the plant manufactures 170 different products. The plants annual output is 1.6m tonnes.

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