Moscow-headquartered energy corporation PJSC LUKOIL has launched its polymer-bitumen binders production unit at LUKOIL’s Nizhny Novgorod refinery. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yury Borisov, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin and President of PJSC LUKOIL Vagit…
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