# Kemerovo Azot to invest 9.925 billion rubles in modern plastics plant

Kemerovo Azot (part of SDS Azot group) plans to invest 9.925 billion rubles in a project to modernize and expand production, increasing caprolactam capacity from 116,000 to 150,000 tonnes per year and ammonium sulfate from 334,000 to 400,000 tonnes per year, and adding new products. The project will create 200 jobs and is planned over 10 years.

- Type: Investment
- Announced: 2018-06-06
- Where: Kemerovo, Russia, Russia
- Value: $157.0M (9.93B RUB)
- Jobs: 200
- Status: announced
- Capacity: caprolactam: 150,000 tonnes/year; ammonium sulfate: 400,000 tonnes/year; soda ash: 5,000 tonnes/year; adipic acid: 5,000 tonnes/year; emulsion explosives components: 100,000 tonnes/year
- Products: caprolactam, ammonium sulfate, soda ash, adipic acid, emulsion explosives components, polyamide-6
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Kemerovo Azot](https://endata.com/companies/32409.md)

## Sources

- [plastinfo.ru](https://plastinfo.ru/information/news/38027_06.06.2018/), 2018-06-06: "Кемеровский «Азот» намерен вложить 9,925 млрд рублей в реализацию проекта «Завод современных пластиков»"

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