On April 14th, 2016 General Meeting of shareholders of the PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” took place and results of the Company’s activity in 2015 were summed up. The President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, took a share in the work of assembly.
The General Director of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim”, A. Bikmurzin, has delivered a report on financial and economic activity. The production plan of marketable products was fulfilled 115%. Production of commodity products in relation to 2014, in comparable prices, was 103.1%.
In 2015, the annual production of rubber exceeded 647,000 tons, it was the maximum volume produced in the history of the Company, polystyrene (nearly 300,000 tons), as well as isoprene, styrene and benzene.
As part of the environmental program, which runs until 2020, 59 events worth for more than 740 million Rubles were performed in 2015. The result is as follows: the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere declined by 1000 tons compared to the previous year, intake of the fresh river water from the Kama River decreased by 1 million 727,000 m3, waste water discharge after the buffer pools in the Pointer Log creek also decreased by 3,400,000 m3.
Most notable in the energy saving was replacement of the old boards of motor control senters (250 MCC is now replaced by 167 new ones), uninterrupted power supply units were installed in order to avoid production shutdown in case of power supply failure.
At present, the third Power-saving Program is being performed in the Company, including 246 events to be implemented. In 2015, 56 energy-saving measures were implemented that saved 144,000 GCal of thermal energy, 24 million kWh of electric power, 2,000 tons of fuel worth of 187 million Rubles (including V.A.T.).
Technical specialists of the Company constantly strive to improve and develop their activities in the field of industrial safety and labor protection. In order to improve working conditions, an agreement was signed between the Administration and Trade Union Committee which provided for the implementation of 27 events in 2015. All of them are completed now, which resulted in improvement of working conditions for 1904 employees of the Company.
In 2015, a new policy in the field of human resources management was adopted at the Company. The major component of this policy is upgrading qualifications of employees at all levels. In the past year trained were 8,900 employees, including 5,960 workers. Up to 90% of the training work does the Training Center of the Company.
The average salary for 2015 was more than 44000 Rubles, which is 15.2% above its level in the previous year. Wages were paid in a timely manner. In December, the end-of-the year bonus for good performance in the year was paid out to the personnel of the Company.
Shareholders at the meeting approved the Annual Report, Annual Accounting Reports, including the Report on financial results for the year 2015.
As a result of financial and economic activity of the Company in 2015 for dividend payment will be allocated 7.94 billion Rubles or 4.34 Rubles per common and preferred share.
At the Annual General Meeting of shareholders of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” the Board of Directors was formed as follows:
Sergey V. Alekseev – First Deputy of the General Director of JSC SvyazInvestNeftekhim;
Azat S. Bikmurzin – General Director of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim”;
Vladimir M. Busygin – Deputy Director General of OJSC TAIF for management and strategic development of Group of Companies Nizhnekamskneftekhim;
Radik R. Gaizatullin – Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan;
Albert N. Latypov – Head of Legal Department of OJSC TAIF;
Nail U. Maganov – General Director of PJSC Tatneft’ named after. V.D. Shashin;
Naim Muyichich – Shareholder of Interpetrol SA;
Vladimir V. Presnyakov – Deputy General Director for Refining and Petrochemicals, OJSC TAIF;
Rinat K. Sabirov – Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan (State representative);
Guzelia M. Safina – Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of OJSC TAIF;
Nurislam Z. Syubaev – Head of Strategic Planning Department – Advisor to the Director General of PJSC Tatneft’ named after V.D. Shashin.
Founded was the Audit Commission composed of:
Fanis G. Gabdulhakov – Head of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Tatarstan (State representative);
Olga V. Ignatovskaya – Chief Accountant of OJSC TAIF;
Natalia V. Kuznetsova – Head of Technical and Economic Planning Dept. of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim”;
Lily F. Sulteeva – 1-st category economist of Financial and Economic Department of OJSC TAIF;
Aydar A. Khasanshin – Deputy of the Head of the Management of the Nizhnekamskneftekhim Group of Companies of the OJSC TAIF Department for the Management and Strategic Development of the Nizhnekamskneftekhim Group of Companies.
Shareholders approved ZAO PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit as the auditor of the Company for the year 2016.
Shareholders also approved amendments to the Charter of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” and the Charter of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” redrafted.
After the Annual General Meeting of shareholders of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” was over, the first meeting of the Board of Directors was traditionally held in its new composition. While supporting the proposal of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R. Minnikhanov, members of the Board of Directors re-elected Vladimir M. Busygin as Chairman of the Board of Directors and confirmed the powers of the General Director of PJSC “Nizhnekamskneftekhim” Azat S. Bikmurzin. (Press service PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim)