Amir Kabir Petrochemical Company in the southern Khuzestan Province exported over 21,000 tons of products in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018), indicating a 100% growth compared with the previous fiscal, the company’s marketing and sales manager said.
“Adopting effective strategies and participating in over 10 international exhibitions, the marketing and sales department of the company increased the number of its foreign customers by 36% in the last fiscal year,” Diyakou Abbasi was also quoted as saying by NIPNA on Sunday.
According to Abbasi, AKPC has partaken in expos such as Chinaplas, Arabplast and the GPCA Forum and other petrochemical events in India, Turkey and Russia, to name a few.
Stressing that getting international certificates of products is one of the department’s significant achievements, the official noted that for instance, the company was awarded the REACH certificate about eight years ago, which authorized the company to export commodities to Europe.
REACH is a regulation of the European Union adopted to improve the protection of human health and environment from risks posed by chemicals, while enhancing the competitiveness of the chemicals industry. This is done by the four processes of REACH, namely registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals.
Abbasi noted that to achieve competitiveness for increasing market shares, establishment of links with customers, conditions of supplying products, prices, methods of money receipt, product delivery and after-sales services are of high importance for a petrochemical company.
He added that the department has defined new approaches regarding domestic sales, exports and market analysis, as well as shipping of solids, liquids and gases.
Houshang Karimi, a company official, announced last week that AKPC is planning to boost production by embarking on constructing a major gas plant to receive more fuel as feedstock.
According to the official, because of not receiving sufficient feedstock, AKPC's volume of production has been about 40% less than the nominal capacity in the last few years, because of which the Oil Ministry consented to the project.
"As soon as Maroun natural gas liquids [NGL-2300] project comes on stream, AKPC's olefin production will rise from 530,000 tons to 750,000 tons per annum," Karimi said.
The plan to construct the Maroun NGL Plant, which will be completed in four years, requires an investment of €9 million ($10.5 million).
