OREANDA-NEWS. An annual general meeting of shareholders was held at JSC “Nizhnekamsktekhuglerod”, which approved the annual report and annual book accounting statements for 2015 and adopted the redrafted version of the Company's Articles.

The event was attended by Anvar Vakhitov, Director of OOO "Tatneft-Neftekhim" Management Company, Rinat Nurutdinov, Deputy Head of Finance Department of PJSC TATNEFT, Sergey Anisimov, Acting Executive Director - Chief Engineer of JSC "NKTU", shareholders and their representatives.

JSC "NKTU" is a largest Russian company in technical carbon production, which produced 117.1 thousand tonnes and sold 116.2 thousand tonnes of the product in 2015 (66.1 thousand tonnes of this amount were shipped to the tire manufacturing factories of PJSC TATNEFT), 26 thousand tonnes were exported and 27.1 thousand tonnes were sold to Russian and Tatarstan based companies. The product range consists of 14 carbon black grades.

In 2015 JSC "NKTU" successfully passed the recertification audit for compliance with ISO 9001:2008 international standard. The auditors recognized that the Company’s production quality management system corresponded to the highest international standards.

The Company continues the work on the production upgrading, re-designing and upgrading the process equipment and utilities. The issues of safe production, health and the environment protection are within the permanent control of the Company’s management.

The main areas of the social program are reflected in the Collective Agreement of JSC "NKTU". The commitments envisaged in the collective agreement for 2015 were fully executed.

A new Board of Directors was elected at the meeting, consisting of Anvar Vakhitov, Director of Tatneft-Neftekhim Management Company, Rinat Nurutdinov, Deputy Head of Finance Department of PJSC TATNEFT, Sergey Anisimov, Acting Executive Director - Chief Engineer of JSC "NKTU", Rustam Khisamov, Deputy Corporate Secretary - Head of the Corporate Secretary's staff of PJSC TATNEFT, Rimaz Yamilov, Head of the New Structures Office of the PJSC TATNEFT’s Property Department and Rafat Kiyamov, Head of Operational Planning Office of the Tatneft-Neftekhim Management Company. The representative of the State is Damir Safiullin, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade.

The following persons were elected as members of the Company’s Audit Commission: Alexander Godovikov, Deputy General Director of JSC "Energy Consulting Tatneft " and Valery Antonov, Head of the Accounting Department of the Tatneft-Neftekhim Management Company. The representative of the State is Yulia Voronina, Chief Advisor of the President's Administration of the Republic of Tatarstan.

JSC "BF-Audit" was approved as the external auditor of the Company.