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ARMENIA-CHINA: JOINT RUBBER PRODUCTION MAKES UNLIKELY MATCH A REALITY
Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow
04.05.10
What was more like a dream than reality only ten years ago has been
materialized this year as the joint Armenian-Chinese rubber production
was inaugurated in China on Monday.
The launching of the plant took place in the city of Datong of China's
north-eastern Shanxi province and was attended by Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan.
Enlarge Photo Shanxi-Nairit sample productsArmenia holds a 40-percent
stake in Shanxi-Nairit, while the rest belongs to China. The plant
is expected to yield an estimated $10 million to Armenia's state
budget annually.
Nine years ago the Armenian government approved the project with China,
one of world leaders in synthetic rubber production. Dozens of plants
producing up to 100 types of rubber are located in China.
The joint plant is one of Armenia's largest partnership projects.
Whereas China has spent $100 million on the construction of the plant,
Armenia has made a contribution only with intellectual resources and
certain equipment of the third production line at the Nairit chemical
plant in Yerevan.
The Shanxi-Nairit plant in Datong occupies an area of 100 hectares,
which is about five times the territory of the Nairit plant facilities
in Armenia. Experimental production at Shanxi-Nairit was launched
in 2009. A total of 800 tons of chloroprene rubber, with its quality
exceeding that of rubber produced in Armenia, have been produced at
the plant in China since then.
"The rubber which we have received as a production sample is one
of the best adhesive rubbers, it doesn't lose or change its color,
has specific microstructure and stability, adhesive properties. Such
rubber is good for production of military equipment, shoes, optic
materials," Nairit-2 Deputy Director Albert Sukiasyan tells ArmeniaNow.
Sukisyasn, a 75-year-old candidate of chemical sciences who stood at
the sources of the Armenian-Chinese project, says the expected revenues
from the joint production in China will exceed those that Nairit can
yield here. While Nairit produces 5,000-6,000 tons of rubber a year,
the capacity of Shanxi-Nairit is expected to be 30,000 tons.
Nairit-2 is a state-owned company which unlike the main Nairit Plant is
only engaged in scientific work. It was the 'intellectual resource' of
20 Nairit-2 staff members that was used in the joint Armenian-Chinese
project. Ten of them are currently in China.
Nairit-2 Director Gagik Hakobyan hopes that in the future a separate
office will open also in Armenia. He says they plan to ask the Armenian
government to allow Nairit-2 to engage also in practical production
to meet the demand for a number of materials on the local market.
"We have the premises and appropriate resources in order to produce
such materials as chlorine, chloroprene, soda, adhesive materials,"
Hakobyan tells ArmeniaNow.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow
04.05.10
What was more like a dream than reality only ten years ago has been
materialized this year as the joint Armenian-Chinese rubber production
was inaugurated in China on Monday.
The launching of the plant took place in the city of Datong of China's
north-eastern Shanxi province and was attended by Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan.
Enlarge Photo Shanxi-Nairit sample productsArmenia holds a 40-percent
stake in Shanxi-Nairit, while the rest belongs to China. The plant
is expected to yield an estimated $10 million to Armenia's state
budget annually.
Nine years ago the Armenian government approved the project with China,
one of world leaders in synthetic rubber production. Dozens of plants
producing up to 100 types of rubber are located in China.
The joint plant is one of Armenia's largest partnership projects.
Whereas China has spent $100 million on the construction of the plant,
Armenia has made a contribution only with intellectual resources and
certain equipment of the third production line at the Nairit chemical
plant in Yerevan.
The Shanxi-Nairit plant in Datong occupies an area of 100 hectares,
which is about five times the territory of the Nairit plant facilities
in Armenia. Experimental production at Shanxi-Nairit was launched
in 2009. A total of 800 tons of chloroprene rubber, with its quality
exceeding that of rubber produced in Armenia, have been produced at
the plant in China since then.
"The rubber which we have received as a production sample is one
of the best adhesive rubbers, it doesn't lose or change its color,
has specific microstructure and stability, adhesive properties. Such
rubber is good for production of military equipment, shoes, optic
materials," Nairit-2 Deputy Director Albert Sukiasyan tells ArmeniaNow.
Sukisyasn, a 75-year-old candidate of chemical sciences who stood at
the sources of the Armenian-Chinese project, says the expected revenues
from the joint production in China will exceed those that Nairit can
yield here. While Nairit produces 5,000-6,000 tons of rubber a year,
the capacity of Shanxi-Nairit is expected to be 30,000 tons.
Nairit-2 is a state-owned company which unlike the main Nairit Plant is
only engaged in scientific work. It was the 'intellectual resource' of
20 Nairit-2 staff members that was used in the joint Armenian-Chinese
project. Ten of them are currently in China.
Nairit-2 Director Gagik Hakobyan hopes that in the future a separate
office will open also in Armenia. He says they plan to ask the Armenian
government to allow Nairit-2 to engage also in practical production
to meet the demand for a number of materials on the local market.
"We have the premises and appropriate resources in order to produce
such materials as chlorine, chloroprene, soda, adhesive materials,"
Hakobyan tells ArmeniaNow.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress