Lesser-Known Russian Chemical Producer Selects E&C for a New Polypropylene Plant in Omsk, Russia

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Group of Companies Titan Limited (Omsk, Russia) has selected Tecnimont SpA (Milano, Italy) to serve as the engineering and construction contractor for a grassroot polypropylene plant. The production capacity for the plant will be approximately 180,000 metric tons a year and will utilize Basell's Spheripol process technology. Currently, the construction start date for the $100 million plant is scheduled for the first quarter of 2006, and completion is slated for early 2007.

Titan, established in 1998, is a lesser-known Russian chemical producer that is involved with the production of synthetic rubbers, acetone, phenol, methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), and fuel additives. This plant will represent Titan's first investment in the production of the polypropylene.

The Titan project is Basell's ninth technology license in Russia, giving the company a representation of a combined per annum production capacity of 1.6 million metric tons a year of polypropylene and polyethylene.

During the approval process of Tecnimont to serve as the engineering and construction manager, they company signed an agreement with the Governor, of the Omsk Region, Leonid Polehavez, that commits them to develop new projects in the petrochemical and refinery sectors for the region. Tecnimont has been involved in the construction of over 30 thirty polyolefin plants in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The CIS consists of the former republics of the Soviet Union, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

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