MOSCOW (MRC) -- Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical is likely to shut its caustic soda plant for maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the plant is likely to be shut on December 27, 2014. It is likely to remain off-stream for around 12 days.
Located at Yizheng in Jiangsu province of China, the plant has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, Ineos ChlorVinyls, one of the major chlor-alkali producers in Europe, restarted a chlor-alkali plant in Belgium following an unexpected shutdown on October 22, 2014. It was shut in the second week of October 2014 owing to technical issues. Located at Tessenderlo, Belgium, the plant has a caustic soda capacity of 452,000 mt/year and chlorine capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
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