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Russian PVC plant officially inaugurated / Output to substitute imports

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

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

Coal chemical company plans new polyolefin production in Rostov-on-Don / Start-up set for 2016

Market for standard thermoplastics grapples with old and new challenges / WTO entry will force lower import tariffs that could further pressure local producers / Price developments similar to western Europe

EUR 750m in financing secured for new integrated PVC hub / State-of-the-art European technologies and equipment

"Interplastica" fair reflects optimism in Russian market / More than 20,000 visitors flock to Moscow

Polyolefins capacity set to surge / Increased focus on export-oriented projects

“Interplastica Moscow 2011” / Plastics sector poised for future growth

PE demand to rise by 8.6% per year to 2015 / Polyolefin needs driven by packaging sector

Russian plastic pipe manufacturer expands compounding activities / Engineering thermoplastics capacity soon could reach 80,000 t/y

New PE swing plant in Angarsk / “Innovene” S PE technology license from Ineos

Cracker expansion in Bashkortostan completed

Foundation stone for new PVC plant laid / SolVin joint venture plans to go on stream in 2013

New BOPP film plant in Siberia / Sibur to supply PP / Central Asian and Chinese markets eyed

Polyethylene exports up 125% in 2009 / Local LLDPE production cannot meet domestic demand / Prices on the rise

Composite can production begins at Russian JV

Bag-in-box facility opened in Russia / Platform for growth, local manufacture

Improvement in polymers market expected in 2010 / Shrinking domestic demand in 2009 has players looking abroad / PVC producers bracing for higher costs / State support for new petrochemical projects

Optimism at "Interplastica 2010" in Moscow / Plastics market widely believed to be improving

MoU signed to create Russia's largest PP complex

Acquisition of Russian masterbatch producer Euromaster / Local and international customers

Deliveries of plastics machinery from Germany collapse / Market contracts

PVC project to go ahead / Start-up postponed until 2013

500 exhibitors expected at Interplastica Moscow 2010