experts call the main contenders for the purchase of a major producer of ammonia and ureaOdessa port plant (IPF, Odessa Oblast), Russian companies, especially Sibur Holding and Eurochem.
Among the possible candidates for IPF favorites are the largest Russian companies, especially - Sibur , - said a senior analyst of investment-financial group Socrates Dmitry Horoshun.
It also allowed more likely to participate in the competition, the largest European producers of nitrogen himudobreny, primarily Norwegian Yara International, as well as a consortium with the participation of almost all the major players on the Ukrainian market.
Horoshun added that if the group Privatbank decides not to participate in the competition, focusing on other industries (eg oil), it is doubtful that other Ukrainian players, even collectively can accumulate sufficient resources to qualify for IPF.
According to the Head of the Department of agribusiness and the chemical industry of the information-analytical center Gosvneshinform Dmitry Gordeychuk major favorites in the competition for the sale of AEs were Sibur and Eurochem, at the same time, the expert did not rule out the establishment to participate in the competition co - consortium with the participation of major European and Ukrainian manufacturers, such as Yara International and styrene (Cherkasy, Donetsk Oblast).
According to Dragon Capital Investment analyst Tamara Levchenko, Russian enterprises are most interested in buying the IPF as compared with the major European, and especially with the Ukrainian producers of nitrogen fertilizers.
If the largest Ukrainian financial-industrial groups are willing to buy the plant, for today, in the absence of external financial resources and unfavorable conditions in the chemical market, our companies are unlikely to participate in the competition, - said Levchenko. Click to continue »