The II Moscow International Conference "Plastic Pipes 2008"

The II Moscow International Conference «Plastic Pipes 2008» organized by CREON will be held on April 24, 2008 at «Baltchug Kempinski Moscow» Hotel.

Development of the Russian plastic pipes market is ahead of other plastic goods markets growth. Customer preference trend from metal pipes to plastic ones is among the reasons of such outrun. PE, PP and PVC pipes consumption increases for more than 15% per year.
Plastic pipes production in also increases. Growth of plastic pipes usage in gas and water supply,  heating and waste-water disposal systems stimulates Russian producers to enlarge their capacities and construct new facilities.
At that despite of the significant growth rate of the Russian pipe business development, domestic producers still can not completely satisfy the demand. Thus, plastic pipes import plays important role at the market and import share in overall consumption amounts up to 50%.

Successfully held conference «Plastic Sheets 2007» confirmed the relevance of annually communication of the market players, their experience interchange and familiarization with market situation and branch tendencies in whole. The conference gathered representatives of about 100 Russian and foreign companies. Among them there were the leading producers of plastic pipes raw materials, technologies suppliers, as well as plastic pipes consumers including Poliplastic Group, Basell Polyolefins, Borealis Polymers Oy, Dow Europe GmbH, DSM Engineering Plastics, Noveon Europe BVBA (Lubrizol Corp.), FUE Vodokanal St.Peterburga, Gazpromtrubinvest, KazanOrgsintez, NizhnekamskNeftehim, Novatek-Polymer, SalavatNeftOgersintez, DuPont Russia, Unified Trading System-M, Klimovsk Pipe Plant, Mif Plastic, NIKOHIM, Polimery XXI Veka, Managing Company Polymer and others.

Main subjects scheduled to be discussed at «Plastic Pipes 2008» conference are as follows:

• Current state and development prospects of the Russian plastic pipes market
• Raw materials supply
• Projects of construction and commissioning of the new capacities in Russia and CIS countries
• Production, marketing and consumption of plastic pipes in Russia
• Plastic pipes import
• Pricing at the Russian and global market
• Standards and regulatory requirement, quality and ecological safety of plastic pipes

Conference participants:

• Russian and foreign producers of plastic pipes and pipeline components
• Raw materials suppliers
• Trading companies
• Consumers of plastic and metal pipes
• Equipment and technologies suppliers

CREON will be pleased to meet all interested market players at «Plastic Pipes 2008» conference. Participation in the conference gives you an opportunity to get the full and up-to-date information of the plastic pipes market tends, as well as to meet the leading market players.