Seyyed Mohammad Ahmadzadeh said at the annual ordinary general
assembly of Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company that this company was able to
compete with parallel markets in the country in the past two years and be a
good trustee for shareholders with satisfactory returns.
He announced that Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company's profit doubled
in 1401 compared to 1400, and added: "The company's rial profit increased
from 3,600 billion rials in 1400 to 8,000 billion rials in 1401. In addition,
the dollar profit also increased from $150 million to about $300 million."
The CEO of Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company emphasized the upward
trend of revenue generation in the past five years, and continued: "The
revenue from sales of products increased from 26 thousand billion rials in 1400
to 48 thousand billion rials in 1401, which has grown by about two times. The
foreign exchange income was also $1.1 billion, which was $1.8 billion last
year."
Ahmadzadeh referred to the production capacity of one million and 740
thousand tons of Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company and said: "This company
produced about 20 percent above its capacity last year, so that it produced
more than two million and 50 thousand tons of products, all of which were
sold."
He referred to various sources of feedstock supply as well as
evaluating feedstock supply from neighboring countries for sustainable
feedstock supply, and said: "This company received 2 million and 200
thousand tons of feedstock in 1401, exported 940 thousand tons of products and
sold one million and 100 thousand tons domestically."
According to the CEO of Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company, the return
on assets ratio of this company was 5 percent in 1398 (March 2019-March 2020),
10 percent in 1399 (March 2018-March 2019), 20 percent in 1400 and 34 percent
in 1401.
Ahmadzadeh said about the company's actions to increase profitability:
"This company, in addition to buying shares of Shahid Tondguyan
Petrochemical Company, which was better than bank profits, also bought one
percent of Maroon Petrochemical Company's shares."
He said that the feasibility studies of the styrene unit have been
done and the land has been allocated, and added: "We are negotiating to
select the contractor for this unit and $200 million is the estimated
investment for this project."
The CEO of Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company said that sweetening
hydrogen (heavy cuts), increasing the capacity of benzene production unit,
converting refinery products to higher value-added products with the operation
of paraxylene unit are on the agenda of this company.
Ahmadzadeh emphasized that each operating unit should go for basic
repairs once a year to maintain capital, and said: "The basic repairs of
Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company are done with continuous production and
without taking units out of service and stopping production."
He concluded: "Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company had an actual
production of 480 thousand tons in the first three months of this year."
The annual ordinary general assembly of Bouali Sina Petrochemical
Company approved a dividend distribution of 100 percent at a rate of 560 rials
per share at the end.