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3^rd Sep 2020 -- One of the strengths of Nizhnekamskneftekhim is its own production of ethylene, propylene, butadiene, without which it is impossible to produce either polyethylene, polypropylene, or rubber. At the time of commissioning in 1976, the EP-450 ethylene production was the largest in the country. By the way, it was built in record time. But for the actively developing petrochemical production in the 21^st century, this was no longer enough.

By 1992, thanks to the modernisation of capacities, the production of ethylene at Nizhnekamskneftekhim had been increased to 485,000 tonnes, in 2010 — to 593,000 tonnes, and in 2011 — it crossed the mark of 600,000 tonnes of ethylene a year. In 2018, the Ethylene Plant put into operation two new SRT-VI pyrolysis ovens to replace the obsolete SRT-II type and installed additional capacity. By the end of 2019, the volume of ethylene production had already reached 618,000 tonnes a year, and the production of benzene, which in 1995 barely exceeded 100,000 tonnes a year, thanks to the modernisation of equipment and continuous improvement of technology by 2019 it amounted to almost 275,000 tonnes.

Source: History of Nizhnekamskneftekhim.