All-Russia Public Organization “Delovaya Rossia”: Mikhail Sutyaginsky addressed to Vladimir Putin during the petrochemical conference

On December 1 the President of Russia held an online conference with the heads of the large-scales Russian petrochemical companies. During the conference, the participants discussed the future of Russian petrochemistry and indicated major problems of the industry development.

In his speech, Vladimir Putin noted the importance of the petrochemical industry for the domestic industry development. This sector has the great potential on the world market thanks to qualified employees, advanced technologies and a strong resource base. The large-scale projects, the volume of investments of which is about 5 billion rubles, must be implemented in order to take a more significant position in the world market and reduce imports. Today, 14 such large-scale projects are being implemented in the country. The President noted that the petrochemistry development should not harm the environment

“It should be taken into account that compliance with environmental standards is becoming an important factor in the competitiveness of products. Definitely, our county must increase the reuse of plastics, increase the share of secondary raw materials in the composition of goods and packaging,” Vladimir Putin said.

Development of law-tonnage chemistry and support for the synthetic rubber production were important parts of the discussion. Low-tonnage chemicals make up only 15% of all chemical products and some items are highly dependent on foreign suppliers.

Mikhail Sutyaginsky, the Head of the Committee for the Chemical Industry of “Delovaya Rossiya” and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the AO GC Titan told the President about the industry problems. He noted that, despite the government support, such measures are not enough to maintain stable exports of synthetic rubbers, not least because of the high tariffs of natural monopolies.

“Export loss can be irrevocable, and we can’t sign “long” contracts now, because the share of energy and transportation costs in the cost of production has grown significantly, and It limits us. I propose to formulate measures to support both industrial enterprises and natural monopolies so that we are on an equal footing,” he noted.

Mikhail Sutyaginsky also shared the experience of introducing of environmental directions into the production process on the example of the work of the Group of companies Titan. Among the significant projects, he noted the organization of deep processing of grain, which creates the basis for the production of raw materials for biodegradable plastics, and new high-octane components, which make it possible to significantly reduce the environmental load.

During the conference such large-scale petrochemical companies as “Gazprom”, “Lukoil”, SIBUR, “Rosneft”, “TAIF”, “Tatneft”, “Russian Railways” and etc. presented their proposals for the industry development. The focus was on the development of the production of small and medium-sized polymers, synthetic rubbers, special chemicals, with an emphasis on the domestic market and polymer recycling in conjunction with the processing of household waste.

As the result of the conference a number of instructions to the government were formulated. First of all, President of Russia assigned a task to prepare a complex of measures for the law-tonnage and medium-tonnage chemistry production development in Russia until 2030 with growth of unit capacity on 70%, and also specify a list of priority projects with wide multiplicative effect in this sector. Government will create a complex of measures, including tax measures, to stimulate synthetic rubbers production, and also to use and develop production of recycled polymers to reduce the environmental burden.

Источник: “Delovaya Rossia”, 01.12.2020

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