Gazprom neftekhim Salavat

"Gazprom neftekhim Salavat is Russia’s major petrochemical complex situated in the Republic of Bashkortostan in the town of Salavat. A company set up in 1948 as Industrial Complex No. 18 in 10 years turned into a rapidly developing center of petrochemistry and oil refining. In Soviet times, the Company organized production of low density polyethylene (LDPE), styrene, butyl and fatty alcohols, ammonia and urea, ethylene and propylene, polystyrene, glycol etc. By the end of the 1990s, Salavatnefteorgsintez set a course for the increase of production capacities: ethylbenzene, styrene and polystyrene facilities were constructed. Nowadays, bitumen, high density polyethylene (HDPE), urea granulation, visbreaking and vacuum distillation (AVT-6) production units, the latter with the capacity of 6 mta, have been put into operation."