Nizhnekamskneftekhim: New product grade – new breakthrough effort

Early July, within the framework of the import substitution program and in order to raise its product competitiveness, OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim organized production of the next new polypropylene grade РР4445T.

РР4445T is a random ethylene propylene copolymer with a target melt flow index of 60 g/10 min. The new grade is of high transparency (enhanced optical properties). Application of the product is high-speed thin-walled molding of food and technical packing.

As is known, for a long period of time OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim has been producing a well-proven grade РР4445S with a target melt flow index of 40 g/10 min that substituted many imported equivalent products of famous companies, such as LyondellBasell, Borealis, Sabic, Braskem, Ineos, Honam Petrochemical etc.

Since recently, the processors have been requesting to explore the possibility of increasing the target melt flow index of ethylene-containing polypropylene grades to ensure reduction of the processing cycle time and increase of capacity.

Therefore, it was necessary to organize production of a new product grade similar to the imported grade PP QR 675K produced by Sabic with effective name Qrystal, i.e. “high transparent” that is favorably compared with products of other competitors.

OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim was successful in developing the product that is equivalent to PP QR 675K. Investigations showed that PP 4445T polypropylene has improved optical, organoleptical and physical mechanical properties equal to those of imported equivalent products.

Source: Nizhnekamskneftekhim