MOSCOW (MRC) - Tomskneftekhim (subsidiary of SIBUR Holding) shut down production of low density polyethylene (LDPE) for scheduled maintenance works, according to MRC analysts.
According to the company's customers, on Friday 28, August Tomskneftekhim shut LDPE production for maintenance works. The turnaround will take approximately 30 days.
The shutdown of polypropylene (PP) production capacities is scheduled to be at the end of this week and will last about two weeks.
As MRC informed earlier, Tomskneftekhim the first seven months of this year produced 153,300 tonnes of LDPE and 81,900 tonnes of PP, up 2% and 7% respectively than in the same tine in 2014.
Tomskneftekhim LLC is a subsidiary of SIBUR and one of the largest Russian producers of polymers - polypropylene and low density polyethylene. The enterprise includes the production of monomers - ethylene and propylene (installed capacity: 300,000 tonnes and 139,000 tonnes per year, respectively), and fully provides with raw materials production of polymers: polypropylene (capacity - 130,000 tonnes/year) and low density polyethylene (capacity - 245,000 tonnes/year).
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