SOCAR / PETKIM

Strategy calls for further polyolefin plants in Turkey / Decision to be made in 2026

TURKEY

Investments planned to boost domestic PP output / Projects due online from 2025 onwards

LUKOIL

Evaluation of Bulgarian plants could end in sales / Scrutiny likely to affect plastics ops

PETKIM

Turkish polymer producer shows no signs of recovery / Operating figures deep in the red in Q1

PETKIM

Q1 net profit nearly doubles as revenues soar 127% / Sales volumes drop 7%

TURKEY

PVC imports by weight seen up over 9% in 2020 / Domestic production volume set to drop more than 10% / PVC foreign trade deficit forecast to rise

PVC

Turkey initiates new anti-dumping investigation on imports from Germany and the US

PETKIM

Higher expenditures and currency losses drag Q1 net income into red territory / Q1 production up 2%

TURKEY

PVC consumption heavily reliant on imports / Domestic production from sole plant in Aliaga

SOCAR

New HDPE plant starts up in Azerbaijan / Large share pegged for export

SOCAR

Agreement with BP to explore petrochemicals JV in Turkey / Giant refinery inaugurated in Aliaga

PETKIM

Net profit up nearly two-fold in 2017 / Turkish petchem group names Murad Abdullayev as deputy general for digitalisation

TURKEY

Plastics sector fraught with structural difficulties / Dependence on imported raw materials / Private investments remain low / Upturn through economic stimulus programme / Pagev association demands removal of trade barriers

SOCAR POLYMER

Plans for production of BOPP films in Sumgayit

PETKIM

CEO Saadettin Korkut steps down / Manager's arrest said to be connected to Turkey's state of emergency

SOCAR

Azerbaijani president lays foundation stone for Socar Polymer polyolefins hub in Sumgayit / One of the largest investments in the region

SOCAR

Innovene S HDPE process for Azerbaijan plant / Ineos licence

PETKIM

Turkish petchems producer commissions ethylene and PTA capacity expansion at group headquarters

TURKEY

Plastics industry continues to see solid growth rates / Europe's second largest plastics processing country / More than 8m t of polymers converted in 2013 / Activities centre around Istanbul / Strongly dependent on feedstock imports