News from December 2025 confirms that the city of Omsk, located on the Irtysh River in the vast Russian region of Siberia, a relevant centre for oil, chemical, petrochemical, and energy industry, also famous for its cultural and historical heritage highlighted by St. Nicholas Cossack and Assumption Cathedrals, its Drama Theatre and the Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts displaying Fabergé creations, launched the production of a strategic and crucial raw material vital for aviation and advanced industrial applications, making the Russian Federation less dependent on imports for this high - tech component.
This material is the polyisobutylene (PIB), classified as a strategic material, used in aviation, a synthetic rubber - like polymer known for its flexibility, durability, and resistance to thermal and oxidative stress, moisture, acids, ozone, and UV rays.
PIB ranges from a viscous liquid to a gummy solid, depending of its molecular weight. The material is widely used in applications like adhesive, sealants, electrical insulation, aviation lubricants, also as an electrical insulation cladding for its protective and water - resistant properties, as well as an emulsifier in the manufacture of explosives for geological exploration.
According to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia and the Director of the Department of Chemical Industry Artur Smirnov , the projected capacity of the Omsk company that started the production of this molecular weight and high reactivity material is 10.000 tons of product per year. The implementation of this project will make it possible to meet the domestic market demand and eliminate’s the country’s dependence on foreign supplies.
The total volume of investments in the creation of production exceeded 2.5 billion rubles, about $32.2 million. Previously, more than 90% of this product on the Russian market was supplied by import.
The
production is included in the list of critically important chemicals approved
by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
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