Grupa Azoty - Plastics by TOMAMI

Grupa Azoty Grupa Azoty is a major producer of advanced plastics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; their sales yield 15% of our revenue. Plastics represent our second most important product segment. Grupa Azoty is a strong European producer of engineering plastics and a leading integrated producer of polyamides. One cannot imagine todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world without plastics. They surround us in our daily lives. Our surroundings are bound to change, and so will plastics. Grupa Azoty owes its current strong position on the plastics market to the production of polyamide 6 using internally-manufactured caprolactam, and to the production of polyacetals based on a proprietary technology. What is more, with its potential and robust R&D facilities, Grupa Azoty is well positioned to continually enhance its product portfolio and respond to market requirements. Chemistry means change. That is why we set the course for constant development: we offer a full range of plastics tailored to specific customer needs, manufacture plastics and plastic compounds of unique qualities, and develop our range of modified engineering plastics.

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Plastics manufactured at Grupa Azoty are known both in Poland and abroad. In 2014, we sold over 100 thousand tonnes of plastics*. More than 90% of the production is sold within the European Union, our strategic market, with Germany accounting for nearly half of the sales. 8.5% of the output is sold domestically.

Plastics manufactured by Grupa Azoty are used in numerous industries, including automotive, construction, electrotechnical, home appliances, food processing and textiles. Plastics are gradually replacing traditional materials such as wood or metal. This trend is expected to grow stronger.

* 2014 data, on a consolidated basis

in Poland ■ producer of polyamide

The Group’s market position

in the European Union ■ producer of polyamide 61

13.1% Other

2.9% Pigments 3.8% Melamine

7.1% Chemicals 35.2% Nitrogen fertilizers

Revenue by key product group

8.6% OXO alcohols and plasticizers

14.4% Plastics and intermediates 14.9% Compound fertilizers Products and applications Packaging

Toys, sports equipment

Household appliances

Machine parts

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Tarnamid (PA)

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Tarnoprop (PP)

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Automotive sector

Electrical engineering

Tarnoform (POM)

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Tarnodur (PBT)

1 Among integrated producers

Textiles

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Construction

Products offered by Grupa Azoty in the plastics segment

The plastics are manufactured by two companies of Grupa Azoty: in Tarnów and Guben, Germany. Tarnamid® and Alphalon® (trade names of polyamide 6), and Tarnoform® (a trade name of polyacetal) are the segment’s key products, manufactured in both natural and modifiable forms. This product range is supplemented with modified plastics based on polyamide 66 (Tarnamid®A), polypropylene (Tarnoprop) and PBT (Tarnodur). Grupa Azoty’s offering also includes intermediates used in the manufacturing of plastics, such as caprolactam, cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol.

Natural plastics: Tarnamid® – polyamide 6 (PA6) – high-quality engineering thermoplastic in granular form for injection and extrusion moulding, obtained through hydrolytic polycondensation of caprolactam. Alphalon™ – polyamide 6 (PA6) – available in a wide range of relative viscosities, used in the manufacture of packaging film and monofilaments, and as an engineering plastic for the automotive, electrical engineering and household product industries. Tarnoform® – acetal copolymer (POM) – engineering plastic characterised by excellent chemical and abrasion resistance properties, used in the manufacture of high-strength items.

Modifiable plastics: Tarnamid® – (PA6) Alphalon™ – (PA6) Tarnoform® – (POM) Tarnamid® A – (PA66) Tarnodur A – (PBT) Tarnoprop – (PPC, PPH)

Key types of modified plastics: fiberglass reinforced, mineral filled, hybrid, flame retardant, with anti-adhesion additives, coloured, light and temperature resistant, shock resistant, special purpose.

Plastics products: Polyamide casings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; used as packaging for cold meat products, Polyamide 6, 11 and 12 tubes and polyethylene (LDPE) tubes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; used as pneumatic and hydraulic tubing.

Laboratory testing of plastics: Grupa Azoty provides engineering plastics testing and analysis services. We test both raw materials (granules, powders) and their finished products. Taking into consideration our customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growing needs, we develop and implement new analysis methods..

Plastics testing methods: visual inspection, physical and chemical testing, microscopy, processability testing, mechanical testing, heat testing, thermal analysis, flammability testing, ageing testing, electrical testing, chromatographic analysis of plastics, rheology, chemical resistance testing.

Grupa Azoty company locations and plastics segment products:

Grupa Azoty Police ■ Tytanpol®

Gdynia

Gdańsk

Police

Hamburg

Grupa Azoty Puławy

Grupa Azoty ATT Polymers GmbH ■ Alphalon™ sales office

■ Caprolactam

Grupa Azoty ATT Polymers GmbH ■ Alphalon™

Guben Puławy

Grupa Azoty ZAK S.A. ■ Plasticizers

Kędzierzyn-Koźle Grzybów Chorzów

Tarnów

Grupa Azoty S.A. Tarnamid® Tarnoform® Tarnoprop Tarnamid® A Tarnodur Caprolactam

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Investing in expansion – a new production unit Grupa Azoty, Poland’s largest producer of engineering plastics, is soon to launch a new Tarnów-based facility for producing polyamide 6, the most popular material in this group of products. The construction of the facility began in 2014 and is planned to be completed in December 2016. The new unit will add 80 thousand tonnes to Grupa Azoty’s annual polyamide output, more than doubling the existing production capacity.

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Grupa Azoty attaches great importance to the quality of its plastics. We know that our role as a producer goes beyond creating and selling high-quality products, and that is why dialogue with customers is of utmost importance for us. Therefore, Grupa Azoty offers not only a wide range of base and modified plastics, but also professional technical support through pre- and post-sale customer service. The experience of our experts coupled with our knowledge of the sector allow Grupa Azoty to quickly respond to any processing problems. We can help solve them using technical support provided at our head office or on-site at the customer’s location. At Grupa Azoty we understand that sharing expertise and professional experience between the producer and customer is a prerequisite for mutual satisfaction from the relationship.

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Grupa Azoty’s technical support comprises: consultation on product design, assistance in choosing plastics for specific applications, advice on product certification, quality and safety testing of Grupa Azoty’s plastics and other products, information on plastics applications and uses, development of new modified varieties of engineering plastics to customer specifications, information on injection and extrusion moulding conditions and plastics processing equipment, research into new plastics applications according to requirements.

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