A large chemical plant “Crimean Titan”, owned by Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash, will finance the construction of a railway track in the amount of more than 7.8 million hryvnia to prevent the import of raw materials through the territory of Ukraine, the head of the Committee for Industrial Policy of the Crimean parliament, Peter Zaporozhets.

“Crimean Titan” was faced with the problem of raw material supply – ilmenite ore, which before the blockade of the peninsula came from Ukrainian mines. In addition, as a result of the blockade of the Crimea from Ukraine supply of raw materials to the plant from Russia by rail were also discontinued.

“This issue for two years. After the 2014 raw material to go to the” Titan “is necessary customs clearance of the goods, to go beyond the Russian Federation to the station Vadim in Ukraine and then from this station to re-enter in the” Titan “. This was the traffic pattern w / d compositions, “- said P. Zaporozhets. There are several ways to make the railway bridge, part of the branch to not leave the territory of Ukraine, Zaporozhets said. “Unfortunately, two years lost, and now adopted an order (to create a new w / d branches) have to be agreed with the railway”, – said Dmitry Firtash.

The order on the construction of a new branch of the Council of Ministers of Crimea approved. Today, raw materials for enterprises is delivered through the Kerch Strait and then by road to the town of Krasnoperekopsk and Armyansk. The cost of new w / d paths is 576 million rubles, the company is ready to take on the financing of the project itself, the Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy of the Republic Boris Kabakov.

As reported earlier MRC, the property “Crimean Titan” in autumn 2014 transferred to long-term lease to the Russian company “Titanium investment”, registered in the summer of the same year.

“Crimean Titan” produces titanium dioxide is used in the manufacture of goods paints and coatings industry, plastics and products based on them with high thermal properties (window plastic, household goods, automotive parts, machinery and equipment), as well as rubber, linoleum, paper, cardboard and wallpaper . In addition, the plant produces fertilizer.