MOSCOW (MRC) - Production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in Russia increased by 1% to 561,400 tonnes in the first eleven months of the year, despite the shutdown of SIBUR-Neftekhim, according MRC ScanPlast.
SIBUR-Neftekhim completely shut down its chlorine production in April 2013, including its 42,000 tonnes/year PVC capacities. The growth of capacities at other Russian plants offset the shutdown of SIBUR-Neftekhim's PVC production.
Russia's total production of suspension and emulsion unmixed PVC increased to 561,400 tonnes in the first eleven months of the year, compared with 557,000 tonnes year on year. The structure of PVC production in Russia over the reported period was as as follows.
SayanskKhimPlast produced about 26,000 tonnes of PVC in November. The producer's PVC output totalled 260,300 tonnes in the first eleven months of the year, up 5% year on year.
November PVC production at Bashkir Soda Company (formerly Kaustik, Sterlitamak) remained at the October's level of about 18,600 tonnes.
The total PVC production at Bashkir Soda Company was 193,000 tonnes in the first eleven months of the year, from 180,800 year on year.
The third largest producer of PVC in Russia - Kaustik, Volgograd produced about 7,700 tonnes in November. Total PVC production at the company was 81,800 tonnes in the first eleven months of the year, up 3% compared to the same period in 2012.
Russia's only producer of emulsion PVC - Khimprom, Volgograd because of emergency shutdown in July and August ( breakage of the rooftop at vinyl chloride monomer production) reduced production to 15,400 tonnes in the first eleven months of the year, from 18,800 tonnes year on year.
As noted previously, SIBUR-Neftekhim shut down production of chlorine in early April 2013, and by mid-July all outdated chlorine workshops had been closed out. The shutdown of chlorine workshops resulted from the oncoming launch of a new PVC production at RusVinil, a joint venture of SIBUR and Solvin, with annual capacity of 300,000 tonnes of PVC, which is scheduled on the second half of 2014.
MRC