The total consumption of PET at the territory of former USSR exceeds 800 thousand tons per year, but own Russian PET production is about 200 thousand tons per year and provide only 25 % of market requirements. Therefore PET Russian market depends on import. However, PET production will reach 1 million tones by 2010 and any import will be unnecessary.

Nowadays domestic companies become global.

Undoubtedly, Russian PET market is of interest for most leading companies.

CREON provides a unique opportunity for foreign companies to get the up-to-date information concerning Russian PET market, as well as strike new business contacts with all Russian PET market players.

Also, it’s a good opportunity for the leading world companies to meet and discuss with Russian polyethylene terephtalate producers and processors their experience of the organization of PET production and PET processing.

The PET conference, annually organized by CREON, became the meeting point of almost all market players: polyethylene terephtalate producers; suppliers and customers of PET goods (preforms, films and fibers); PET traders; supplies of equipment for polyester production and processing.

The annually held conference «Polyethylene» is exclusive. It does not have any analogues either in Russia and CIS or abroad. Thus, it became the irreplaceable place for engagement, communication, actual information interchange and decision-making for all players of the branch including produces, traders, processors of polyethylene and equipment and technologies suppliers.

More than 150 specialists from Russia and CIS enterprises, as well as representatives of foreign companies participated in the previous year conference. All overpast events succeeded and merited reward and interest of the leading specialists of the branch to retain the yearly periodicity of the conference.
Polyethylene market is such a large and dynamically developing branch that it requires regular analysis not only of all the market production but also the detailed study of every segment of it ad partem.

The main subjects scheduled to be discussed at the V Anniversary conference are:

• Polyethylene market overview;
• Position of Russia at the global market;
• Polyethylene production in Russia and CIS;
• Modernization of existing production facilities and creation of new production lines;
• Polyethylene import;
• Polyethylene processing.