On 20 August 2016, within his working trip to Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov participated in the official ceremony of commissioning the upgraded production facilities of linear alpha-olefins at PAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim.
He was accompanied by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov, Director General of PAO Tatneft Nail Maganov, Director General of OAO TAIF Albert Shigabutdinov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim Vladimir Busygin, Head of Nizhnekamsk District Aydar Metshin, Assistant to the Tatarstan President Rinat Sabirov, and top officials of Tatarstan ministries and agencies.
Further Rustam Minnikhanov bestowed a number of State awards of the Republic of Tatarstan. After that he commissioned new production facilities.