Sibur

Russia September 2014: LDPE and HDPE tight and expensive / Euro notations feel currency effect as rouble continues to lose in value / PP and PVC pointing down / PS and PET roll over / Little change expected in October

Distributing Sibur's PP and PE in select western European countries

Russian PVC plant officially inaugurated / Output to substitute imports

Russia August 2014: Maintenance cycles drive up PE, PP and PVC notations / PS and PET mostly quiet / PP availability could improve in late September / PVC tightness expected to last into November

Packaging market worth USD 15 bn / Local plastic packaging plants operate at reduced rates / Food packaging drives demand / Domestic BOPP output to be exported from 2016 onwards / gtai report

First PVC test batch produced / Facility in start-up mode / Output to go towards domestic market

Russia July 2014: Aside from PET, all notations rise in rouble-terms / Russian currency posts gains against the euro / Most grades expected to see rises in August

Earnings rise in Q2 2014 on strong volumes and restructuring / Functional Polymers sales impacted by weak pricing / Softness in non-consolidated vinyls assets to go to Inovyn

Russia June 2014: Situation generally stable / HDPE continues to rise / PP likely to see increases this month

EUR 40m BOPP line starts up in Russian Samara region / Output to be sold to European markets as well

Gazprom and Sibur enter into Omsk-based PP joint venture with Titan / Collaborating on feedstock supply and distribution

Mega players sign strategic cooperation agreement for gas processing, petrochemicals / Chinese and Russian presidents as witnesses

Polish, Russian and Ukrainian profiles industry under pressure / Market predicted to decline by 2.7% per year to 2017 / Interconnection report

"Chinaplas" exclusive: PIE speaks to Sibur managing director and head of Basic Polymers Sergey Komyshan / Sell-and-build strategy / Focus on integrated sites / Export share expected to rise / Ukraine crisis has no significant impact on operations

Polief subsidiary commissions PET expansion / Output further reduces Russia's dependence on imports

Sales and operating profit fall in petrochemicals / Decline partially offset by Tomsk and Perm plastics facility openings

Engineering thermoplastics consumption recovers slightly in 2013 / Gains driven by ABS and PMMA / Import volumes of PC, PA and SAN down / Asian producers increasingly step into the fold / Low local capacity utilisation rates / Plastinfo report

Sibur: Appointment of Pavel Lyakhovich as new head of "Plastics and Organic Synthesis Products" division

Stake in styrenics producer OJSC Plastik sold for EUR 12.6m / Part of strategy to focus on key assets

Plan to build large-scale polyolefin hub in Russia / Cooperation with Gazprom on gas processing complex

President Putin on hand to officially open PP production at Tobolsk

Long-term additives supply agreement with BASF

Pre-commissioning underway for new BOPP line in Russia

Commissioning of new TPE line in Voronezh

Russia: PP production declines / Consumption up / Larger volume for export in future