SIBUR’s Sustainability Committee held a regular meeting online to review measures implemented by the Company in dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak and approve further steps in key focus areas. The safety of our employees and clients is at the centre of the Company’s pandemic response.

SIBUR will supply epidemiological kits for medical personnel to various regions of Russia to satisfy the needs of healthcare institutions. This decision was taken by SIBUR's Committee for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Social Investments.

SIBUR, Russia’s largest integrated petrochemicals company, and Netkanika, a major manufacturer of high-quality nonwoven materials, agreed to expand cooperation to provide the healthcare industry with high quality single-use personal protective equipment.

The Company plans to boost investments in R&D projects focusing on polymer waste recycling and cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

On the margins of the meeting at SIBUR’s PolyLab R&D Centre, SIBUR and BASF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalising their partnership on the sustainable development and circular economy agenda further to the companies’ environmental talks held back in June this year.

Darya Borisova has been appointed as a new member of the Management Board and Managing Director of SIBUR. She will head the Joint Department of Development and R&D established in order to better align SIBUR’s innovation and development projects with the needs of customers.

SIBUR and Tatneft have closed the sale and purchase of certain production and other assets that to date have been registered in the name of SIBUR Togliatti and Togliattisintez legal entities.

SIBUR’s corporate centre hosted a meeting on leveraging digitalisation to improve industrial safety at production facilities and reduce administrative burden experienced by businesses as part of supervisory control and regulation. The participants included Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, Minister of Labour and Social Protection Maxim Topilin, Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Svetlana Radionova, Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision Alexei Aleshin, heads of other agencies and leaders of Russia’s industrial majors.

SIBUR, Russia’s largest integrated petrochemicals company presents its plastics at K 2019, the world's largest trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, hosted in Dusseldorf, Germany.

In the course of ZapSibNeftekhim commissioning and start-up, we reached yet another major milestone – the first ethylene batch produced in-house and used as feedstock for the first polyethylene granules.