Russian fertilizer producer EuroChem has opened a $16-million efficient water-soluble fertilizers plant in Lithuania, the company said in a statement. The plant will produce 25,000 tons of water-soluble crystalline urea phosphate per year, and the capacity will be reached until the end of 2018. “This new facility will further strengthen Lifosa’s position on the global…
A chemical plant will start operating in Aktau in 2020. It will be built by Topan Chemical Industries. According to Gaisa Zhumaliyev, head of the company, the new factory will produce caustic soda and chlorine-containing products. The project value is $70 million. The plant is expected to be constructed in the Seaport Aktau Special Economic…
Yildirim Holding, a Turkish company, plans to launch soda ash production in Zhambyl region. In December 2017 Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev had a meeting with Robert Yuksel Yildirim, CEO at Yildirim Holding, at the EXPO Congress Center in Astana. The meeting participants discussed prospects for investment projects in the chemical industry of Kazakhstan. In…
Ukraine’s polypropylene (PP) imports increased by 9% YoY in the first seven months of the year, as demand for all PP grades grew. Overall imports of propylene polymers reached 74,000 tons in January-July, compared to 67,700 tons a year earlier. Demand for all PP grades increased, but PP block copolymers accounted for the greatest growth.…
In January-June the Belarusian state petrochemical concern Belneftekhim increased merchandise export by more than one fourth in comparison with H1 2017, the Belneftekhim press service reported after the concern’s board convened to review performance in the first half of the year. In H1 Belneftekhim’s merchandise export growth rate reached 128.5% as against January-June 2017, with…
Kazakh Energy Ministry has found a private investor ready to take part in construction of the fourth refinery in the territory of Kazakhstan, our correspondent reports. “Another key step in the domestic oil and gas industry is construction of a new refinery. A group was set up on the instructions of the president to develop…
In Almaty region, with the support of Kazakh Invest, a plant will be built in 2019 to produce plant protection products with the participation of Turkish investments. The foreign investor, represented by the Turkish holding company Agrobest Group, invests $30 million in the production of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, seed protectants and glyphosate in Kazakhstan. Kazakh…