Bouali Sina Petchem Company doubles profit in 1401

Bouali Sina Petchem Company doubles profit in 1401
(Monday, July 3, 2023) 23:57

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- The CEO of Bouali Sina Petrochemical Company said that the company had produced 20 percent above its capacity in 1401 (March 2022-March 2023), and said: "The company's profit doubled last year compared to 1400 (March 2021-March 2022)."

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.

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