MOSCOW (MRC) - Stavrolen (LUKOIL) resumed production of polypropylene (PP) on Sunday, 1, March, said the company's customers for the MRC.
Company's customers said the producer following of a brief shudown resumed production of polypropylene. The company in the next two days will resume the shipments of the polymer into the market.
The shutdown of PP production was carried out on 20, February and was caused by the need to prepare the workshop for production of ethylene.
The annual production capacity at Stavrolen is 120,000 tonnes/year. The producer's PP production was 10,800 tonnes in January 2015. As in was written earlier, Stavrolen on 26, February 2014 had to shut polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) production. The company resumed PP production in October 2014, the resumption of PE production is expected in April.
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