Development by NKNK Inc experts of a fundamentally new type of synthetic rubber has been nominated for the State Prize of Tatarstan.

Among the seven works nominated for the State Prize of Tatarstan in the field of science and engineering in the year 2001, there is a team-work by the scientists of a Kazan Technological University and experts of a synthetic rubber plant NKNK Inc. The development pertains to manufacture, and recipe and technology of producing a fundamentally new type of synthetic rubber - an ethylene propylene one. The novelty of it is in that so far nobody in Russia has been engaged in introducing production of such rubber which is badly needed by a general mechanical rubber goods industry. It is well used in manufacturing various gland seals, packers for pumps and engines, and is of high service quality - strength and frost resistance.

Today, NKNK Inc personnel are successfully mastering production of ethylene propylene rubber trial batches in which both Russian and a number of foreign companies have shown interest. After the current upgrading, a Synthetic Rubber Plant will launch a commercial production of the same.

The developers of this rubber are the key scientists of the Kazan Technological University and expert operation personnel of NKNK Inc.

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