Plastics processors to discuss key market issues

On the 22nd and 23rd of November 2010 the 4th Russian Congress of Plastics Converters will take place in Moscow. The forum, which is being held in the Small Conference Hall of the Moscow Government building, is organised by the Russian Association of Plastics Converters, the RCC Group media and consulting company and supported by the Government of Moscow. Key market players will discuss developments in promising sectors of the polymer industry: TPEs, composites, flame retardants, modifying additives, food polymers, plastic recycling.

A special panel discussion on the tense relations between domestic producers and processors of polymer feedstock (Kazanorgsintez, Sibur, Nizhnekamskneftekhim and others) will be held at the congress. Representatives from the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the state bodies involved in investigating alleged monopoly abuses by Russian producers of base polymers, have been invited to take part in the panel discussion.

As at the previous conferences, this year’s forum will present unique Russian developments intended to replace imported products. Some of these developments have already been commercialized, some will be offered to market players for commercialization. For example, a Russian facility for manufacturing montmorillonite-based additives will be presented during the congress. A unique design of closing valve allowing the replacement of metal parts with plastic ones will also be announced.

A meeting entitled «Experience of Russian cities in MSW recycling – problems and solutions» will be held as part of the congress on the 23rd of November. The session will be devoted to issues related to the creation of the municipal solid waste collection and recycling system. The lack of landfills forces municipal authorities to use new waste treatment technologies, in particular, large-scale collection with subsequent pyrolysis of residues. Requirements to thermal recycling, ways to develop the waste treatment industry, specifics of the implementation of new technologies in Russia’s MSW sector will be discussed at a meeting to be attended by heads of the Industry Department and the Housing and Communal Department of the Moscow City Government, municipal services from across Russia and companies involved in MSW collection and recycling.

A detailed report on the results of the congress, with the review of the market situation and market players’ proposals, will be made once the event ends. All the documents are planned to be published in print and online by mass media companies. They will also be sent to Russia’s governmental authorities and the State Duma (Parliament).

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Vsevolod Abramov, chairman of the Russian Plastics Converters Association
Report on results of K 2010.
The latest European technologies and equipment

The 18th international plastic and rubber exhibition K is being held in D?sseldorf this November. It is a major event in the global industry. Technologies presented at K set development directions for the plastics industry for at least 10 years. Participation in the event is a must for all companies in the sector. The results of the exhibition will be discussed in the report of the chairman of the Russian Plastics Converters Association.

Petr Malina, deputy director, Science, of ZAO Bioenergetik
Plan of establishing a manufacture of newly designed polymer valves. Investment project

?The most significant number of ruptures and leakages occur near check valves during transportation of liquid products. For example, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico would be impossible if the hydraulic pressure on the check valve of the system had been several times lower.

Setting a valve at an angle of 45° to the pipe instead of 90° and other engineering solutions could reduce the pressure, make hydraulic impact impossible and allow opening and closing valves without a hydraulic rotation booster. Such a solution allows the substitution metal with polymers in those valve designs that excluded such replacement thus far.

Our new check valves possess such advantages as resistance to corrosive environment and low cost in comparison with metal analogs. They are protected by over 10 invention patents. The technical characteristics of the valve and its competitiveness against foreign analogs have been confirmed by tests conducted by NPP Mashtest (Korolev, Moscow region), Tyazhprom-Armature (Aleksin, Tula region), Hydromash Plant (Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region) and Neftepromremont (Strezhevoi, Tomsk region).

The Russian Congress of Plastic Converters scheduled for this November will present the feasibility study of this project to potential investors describing the amount of investments needed, market size, equipment capacity, project payback period. If implemented, the project will prolong the service life of check valves used at numerous residential and industrial objects, including chemical facilities. The goal of the project is to gradually replace the old valves of currently operating pipeline systems and install the new valves on newly built plastic pipelines.