MOSCOW (MRC) - Polymir plant, subsidiary of "Naftan", produced 94,900 tonnes of low density polyethylene (LDPE) in the first nine months of this year, down 9% year on year, said the National Statistics Committee of Belarus.
According to the National Statistics Committee of Belarus, a local polyethylene producer - Polymir increased production of polyethylene to 10,800 tonnes in September, compared with 10,100 tonnes in August. Total LDPE production at the plant was 94,900 tonnes in the first nine months of 2015, compared with 104,300 tonnes in the same time a year earlier.
The decline in the output resulted mainly from lengthy scheduled shutdown at the second line of LDPE plant.
As MRC informed earlier, Polymir shut down its second line at LDPE plant for a scheduled maintenance on 13, June.
The shutdown was planned to done for three weeks, but because of technical problems the operation at the second line was resumed only in the end of July. The producer's annual LDPE production capacity is 130,000 tonnes.
Plant Polymir ("Naftan") - the largest petrochemical company in Belarus, producing a wide range of chemical products, such as low density polyethylene (LDPE), acrylic fibers, products of organic synthesis, hydrocarbon fractions, etc. Polymir was founded in 1968. Technologies of the largest foreign companies from Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Italy (Courtaulds, Asahi Chemical Co. Ltd, Kanematsu Gosho, SNIA BPD, etc.), as well as the development of scientific research institutes and design institutes of the CIS countries.
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