Titan's Polyom PP plant increases capacity

02-May-14

Russia’s Titan Polyom polypropylene plant in western Siberia has raised production capacity beyond its design capacity to 210,000 tpa, barely one year after it was launched. In November 2013, the facility which is part of the developing ‘Park’ petrochemical cluster in Omsk, reached an annualised equivalent output of 100,000 tpa. It later achieved 180,000 tpa nameplate production capacity, as per European Plastics News. Since then, as a result of technology upgrading, the company Titan which owns the plant said the PP unit has now surpassed its design output to ramp the hourly rate by 10%. Titan invested around €280 mln in the PP operation, launched in late April 2013, and has mastered five brands including general purpose PP for extrusion, compounding and injection moulding; polymer for BOPP film and polypropylene for injection and extrusion for piping systems. Omsk plant exports to Russia and in the CIS countries, Lithuania, Serbia, Finland, Bulgaria and Turkey and as far as Vietnam and China.