Polar Quartz to launch its Urals quartz plant in June 2012

The first stage of Polar Quartz, a plant to produce high-purity quartz concentrate, will be commissioned in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District in June 2012, news agency RIA Novosti reports citing Aleksander Beletsky, CEO of the corporation Urals Industrial – Urals Polar.

The plant is scheduled to reach its projected annual of 10,000 tons capacity in 2014.

Under plans, the vertically-integrated production complex to make quartz micro- and nano-powder, as well as highly-pure quartz concentrates. The products are used in a number of industries, including nanoelectronics, optics, light technologies and chemical industry. Quartz concentrate is also used as a raw material for making quartz crucibles, used for growing electronic and solar monocrystal silicon.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District’s share in the Polar Quartz project will total 54.8%, and the corporation “Urals Industrial – Urals Polar” will have 45.2%.

The plant Polar Quartz was scheduled to be launched in 2011. The project idea appeared in late 1990ies, its realization started in 2003, but was halted in 2008 due to stop in finance. Construction renewed in 2011.