Roman Muzyka, Marketing and Sales Director at BIAXPLEN, on choosing the right path in life and things that keep him going. About persistence I was born and raised in the Urals, spending my childhood and adolescence in Kamensk-Uralsky and student years fr om 1993 to 1998 in Yekaterinburg. Thanks ...

SIBUR’s Tomsk site, BIAXPLEN T, has started to use KUKA robot manipulator for production purposes. The robot has replaced workers who manually added labels to the inner and outer sides of BOPP film rolls. The machine identifies the centre point of a roll based on diameter ...

Manucor and SIBUR’s joint venture in Italy stays open with a 15% increase in capacity utilisation. Manucor S.p.A., a European BOPP film manufacturer in which BIAXPLEN holds a 50% stake, is allowed to remain open thanks to its status of a strategically important business. As an officially recognised manufacturer of essential goods, Manucor is implementing extra safety measures. While maintaining uninterrupted ...

BIAXPLEN launches new film grades for self-adhesive labels and confectionery and tobacco packaging. In 2019, BIAXPLEN partnered with its clients and SIBUR’s R&D centres to develop new films for a number of consumer segments. Unique for the ...

... opportunity to work on a project without ready-made answers and with rules being formulated along the way. It helped make my thinking more flexible and broadened my horizons considerably. I should also recall my first experience as a company head at BIAXPLEN’s branch in Zheleznodorozhny that played an important role in my professional career. With branches spanning the country from Tomsk to Zheleznodorozhny, people at BIAXPLEN are one large team always ready to assist and support each other. I ...

... Global Series, said: “Flexible packaging is one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas of the label and package printing industry, so we decided to incorporate it as a major feature at our 40 th anniversary edition of Labelexpo Europe.” BIAXPLEN took part at the 2019 trade show for the first time. The Company presented more than 50 types of BOPP film, with films for wrap-around, self-adhesive and in-mould labelling playing centre stage. In its negotiations with customers, the Company ...

The companies set up a joint venture to produce BOPP film. BIAXPLEN has acquired a 50% stake in Manucor S.p.A, a leading European BOPP film manufacturer with a production site of 100 ktpa in Italy and exports to 35 countries. This will enable BIAXPLEN and Manucor to combine best practices in sales and ...

BIAXPLEN closes the sale of its cast polypropylene film production facility in Novokuybyshevsk. The cast polypropylene film production site in Novokuybyshevsk, Samara Region, was acquired by Planeta Centre. The investor plans to invest in its further ...

... forefront of the petrochemicals market. The theme featured prominently at the AMI Biax Film 2018 conference dedicated to the bi-oriented film industry. This year’s special conference in Vienna covered the state of the BOPP and BOPET markets, and BIAXPLEN – a major industry player – presented the Challenges and Opportunities for a Back-integrated BOPP producer report. Most conference participants addressed the need to implement a sustainable development concept, which has become a ...

... non-existent. Most of the products were imported fr om neighbouring Belarus or other countries, ranging as far as Latin America. It was not until 2005 that the market saw the first Russian producers using state-of-the-art BOPP film equipment. Those were BIAXPLEN, GRINN Plastic and NOVATEK-Polymer, with others following suit shortly after. The domestic capacities totalled 105 ktpa. While import substitution was slowly gaining traction, it was hard to imagine the government would soon adopt it as a strategy ...

Marat Falyakhov , Execurive Director at BIAXPLEN, shared his thoughts on nature, equality and hospitality. About career choice The main question I keep asking myself is to what extent parents should influence their children's choice of career. Should they give their kids free rein or, conversely,...

... Unilever and Mars plan to achieve this goal by 2020 and 2025, respectively. The approach is twofold. First, packaging must be phthalate-free. Second, it needs to utilise mono structures for easier recycling. In Russia, such solutions are offered by BIAXPLEN, its leading producer of BOPP films. Phthalate-free plasticisers are designed to meet the most stringent requirements, including those of the medical equipment, toy and food packaging industries. “The phthalate-free trend is taking ...

Leonid Shergin , Director for Production and Operations at SIBUR’s BIAXPLEN, on work–family balance, living in two cities, and his secret to happiness. About relocations This is my second time moving to Moscow. The first was when I came here from Perm in 2013 and worked at SIBUR’s Energy Centre for two ...

BIAXPLEN’s round table talk has attracted over 100 participants. In mid October, BIAXPLEN gathered over 100 Clients, managers and experts for a round table talk at Areal Hotel in the Moscow Region to discuss its achievements and most pressing issues....