Construction has started on a PET polymer production plant in Kaliningrad, Russia for JSC Alco-Naphtha.
After completion the plant will produce 240,000tpa and will be Russia's biggest PET polymer production plant.
The plant will be twice the size of the existing second-ranked unit at Blagoveschensk operated by Russian company Polief.
Uhde Inventa-Fischer of Berlin will supply technology and the automated equipment to produce PET granules at the Kaliningrad facility.
Nearly 40% of the new plant's PET output will be used for Russian domestic use, and the rest will be exported, according to prw.com.
