More than 150 Russian and foreign companies including producers of polystyrene and ABS-plastics, technologies and equipment suppliers, trading companies, as well as producers of thermoinsulated and finishing materials, car components, refrigerating and household equipment, polystyrene packaging and other consumers of the mentioned plastics participated in the previous events. Among them there were Atlant, BASF, Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH, Chevron Phillips Chemicals, Dow, Evroplastic, Gazprom Neft, Knauf Penoplast, KOMUS-Upakovka, Koros, Lanxess, Mosstroi-31, NIKOCHEM, NizhnekamskNeftehim, Omsk Polymer, Plastic Uzlovaya, Polimeri Europa, SalavatNefteogrsintez, Samsung Cheil Industries, Sasol O&S, SAT Operating Aktau, SIBUR, Stairovit SPb, Stirol Consern, TechnoNIKOL, Toray Deutschland and other companies.

Rapid growth of construction and engineering industries, as well as packaging and household goods market results in growth of PS, EPS, ABS, SAN and other styrenic polymers. It should be noted that polystyrene demand growth exceeds the output growth as evidenced by imports increase. Nowadays import share at the internal market has reached 45% and EPS takes the major part of imports (57% of total volume). Despite of the abovementioned facts, a part of produced polystyrene (17%) goes to export. Analysts believe Russian market of polystyrene and ABS-plastics to be receptive and promising. However, there are a number of facts hindering the market development in Russia: First is the market saturation with imported goods, which can be explained by low competitive ability of domestically produced plastic production both in terms of quality and pricing. Secondly, the technical level of domestic production does not permit to enlarge capacities and to expand the assortment of production. The majority of production units situated at the territory of Russia are below the world technology level and require modernization and replacement of outdated polystyrene production lines. The existing situation confirms feasibility of polystyrene production and processing investment. Construction of such complexes is sure to be an urgent aim demanding all-round analysis of the Russian and global polystyrene and co-polymers market tends, as well as market pricing and the development directions of the plastic consuming branches consideration. Sure, the changes taken place in the last year at the polystyrene market in Russia such as substantial increase of the product import; reorientation of the Russian producers of the internal market; strengthening of Korean raw materials position at the Russian market require detailed consideration and discussion inside of the conference.

Subjects of the conference:

• Current state and development prospects of the Russian market of polystyrene plastics
• Position of Russia at the global market of polystyrene and ABS-plastics
• Projects on new facilities construction and commissioning in Russian and the CIS countries
• Russian production of polystyrene
• Polystyrene and ABS-plastics imports
• Pricing
• Polystyrene plastics processing

Participation in «Polystyrene and ABS-Plastics 2008» conference will give you an opportunity to get the full and actual information on the mentioned products market in Russia and the CIS countries, find more about the current state and development prospects of the market, discuss the most important achievements and problems of processing branches, as well as strike up new business contacts and maintain the existing ones.