The Kemerovo Joint Stock Company Orton is a subsidiary of SIBUR and the largest producer of geosynthetic materials in the Asian part of Russia.

The Company has process lines for the production of geogrids with a production capacity of 3000 tonnes per year, and also for the production of nonwoven geotextile with a production capacity of 9400 tonnes per year.

The business’s industrial infrastructure includes a complex of warehouses for various purposes.

In SIBUR’s corporate structure Orton is included in the Directorate of Plastics and Organic Synthesis, which is headed by SIBUR Vice President Sergei Merzlyakov.

Its activities are chiefly directed towards the production and sales of products made fr om geosynthetic materials. Its raw materials (polypropylene) are supplied by SIBUR’s subsidiary Tomskneftekhim. Nonwoven fabrics are produced at the plant using modern «spunbond» technology.

The technological production process includes several stages.

Pellets of the polymer enter the extruder, where the melting process takes place. After this the molten polypropylene is forced through special aperture-dies. The fibres that are formed pass through a stage of aerodynamic stretching to form an infinite filament. In the process of stretching the filaments are cooled and gain strength. The threads are laid out to form a canvas on a conveyor, the speed of which can be varied resulting in materials of different density. In the final stage, the formed sheet is knitted together in various ways, depending on the final product to be formed of the material.

The Company produces and sells polymer construction lattices under the name Aprolat and non-woven geotextile materials under the name Kanvalan. It also produces a geotextile under the trademark Geoteks, which is made in Surgut (SIBUR-Geotekstil). The main sales markets are Western and Eastern Siberia, the Far East and Kazakhstan.

The Company’s products — non-woven geotextiles (geocanvas, dornit) and flat biaxial geogrids (geogrid) — are used in road and railway construction, the oil and gas sector, the construction of environmental facilities and hydro plants. Potential consumers of geogrids are also coal mines, wh ere products of this kind are used to strengthen mine arches.

CEO - Aleksandr Bobrovskiy