MOSCOW (MRC) -- Gazprom neftekhim Salavat has resumed production of low density polyethylene (LDPE) after a one-month shutdown for maintenance, the company's customers said.
Gazprom neftekhim Salavat had resumed LDPE production by Tuesday, 28 July, after a scheduled outage for maintenance works. The company's customers said the plant's LDPE production was shut down for a turnaround on 24 June. They also added that the plant's production of high density polyethylene (HDPE) was also shut down for maintenance on 24 July.
As reported earlier, Gazprom neftekhim Salavat's annual LDPE and HDPE production is 45,000 tonnes and 120,000 tonnes, respectively.
JSC "Gazprom neftekhim Salavat" (formerly JSC "Salavatnefteorgsintez") is one of Russia"s major petrochemical complexes. The company was integrated into JSC "Gazprom" system. The concentration of the full cycle of hydrocarbon processing, petrochemistry and mineral fertilizer production on the one site is the main advantage of GNS. The company comprises oil refinery, chemical plant, gas&chemical plant and monomer plant. The list of manufactured commodity products now includes more than 140 items, including 76 items of the main products: motor gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, fuel oil, toluene, solvent, liquefied gases, benzene, styrene, ethylbenzene, butyl alcohols, phthalic anhydride and plasticizers, polyethylene, polystyrene, silica gel and zeolite catalysts, corrosion inhibitors, elemental sulfur, ammonia and urea, glycols, and amines, a wide range of plastic consumer goods, surfactants and others.
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