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INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SIBUR HOLDING IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD
The SIBUR Group produces and sells the following petrochemical products on the Russian and international markets: olefins and polyolefins (polypropylene, polyethylene, BOPP) and plastics (synthetic rubbers, expanded polystyrene, PET).
SIBUR has more than 23,000 employees. It sells products to 90 countries of the world. This is one of the leading oil, gas, and chemical enterprises in the Russian Federation. SIBUR-Neftekhim, SIBUR-Kstovo, SIBUR-BSC, BIAXPLEN, SIBUR Digital, and RusVinyl operate in the Nizhny Novgorod region. SIBUR-Kstovo is the first enterprise in the chain of petrochemical redistribution of the company in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Ethylene, propylene, and benzene are produced here, which are primary products for manufacturing polymers to make films and plastics. From here, all the ethylene products are supplied via pipelines to two neighboring plants, RusVinyl in Kstovo and SIBUR-Neftekhim in Dzerzhinsk.
The Line Artworks Studio team already completed several successful projects for SIBUR before. We photographed the petrochemical holding in Noyabrsk, in Chaikovsky, and in the Ust-Luga seaport. We also did industrial photography of Sibur-PETF and Sibur Khimprom.
In October 2021, we started work at another significant part of the holding — the Nizhny Novgorod cluster of SIBUR. In two months of work and two weeks of active filming, we prepared a photo bank with all types and genres of industrial photography: photo portraits, industrial landscapes, macrophotography of products and aerial photography of entire factories.
Particular attention was paid to people, employees of the holding. Concentrated faces, close-ups of hands; workers against the backdrop of industrial landscapes. In addition to industrial shooting of facilities, we did photographic portraits at all enterprises of the holding. In the resulting photographs, specialists at work operate equipment and control production processes. The photos show all working nuances. Even silvery flecks from polyolefin can be seen on the faces.
We photographed pyrolysis furnaces, gas separation columns, tanks and reservoirs — a real city that consisted of pipelines, valves, platforms and stairs. We also photographed production facilities both at artificial lighting and from copters. All significant industrial facilities were captured: warehouses, logistics hubs, and production workshops.
There is a production control center on the territory of SIBUR-Kstovo, which deserves separate photo coverage. Over 100 computers are connected into a single process control network. This APCS has intelligent subsystems that suggest algorithms for certain processes at the factory, given a variety of diverse parameters. People also work behind computers. This man-machine collaboration is another interesting story for industrial photography.
The photos processed in shaders were handed over to SIBUR for replenishing their photo bank.
