Russia: Gabriel - masterbatches

摘要

Gabriel Chemie plans to build a new masterbatch plant at a 5 hectares site in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone within Tatarstan republic/ province (about 200 km east of Kazan and 1000 km east of Moscow). Construction work will commence later this year and the plant should be fully on-stream by 2015. It will have an initial capacity for producing 4000 tonnes/y of additive and colour masterbatches, which will eventually be raised to 14,000 tonnes/y and will include black and white masterbatches. As well as the manufacturing plant, there will also be a laboratory and warehouse facilities on the Alabuga site. Gabriel already has a masterbatch plant, laboratory and warehouse at Ruzsky, a northwestern suburb of Moscow. These facilities will remain here, together with the company's Russian sales headquarters.