MOSCOW (MRC) -- Last month's overall production of low density polyethylene (LDPE) in Belarus grew by 4%, totalling 10,900 tonnes, reported MRC analysts.
According to the National Statistics Committee of Belarus, in January 2016, Polymir, a local LDPE producer, increased its capacity utilisation, the plant's final polyethylene (PE) output was 10,900 tonnes, whereas this figure was 10,500 tonnes in January 2015.
As reported before, Belarus' overall LDPE production totalled 128,500 tonnes from January to December 2015 versus 136,000 tonnes a year earlier.
Polymir (part of Naftan) is Belarus' largest petrochemical company, producing a wide range of chemical products, such as low density polyethylene (LDPE), acrylic fibers, products of organic synthesis, hydrocarbon fractions, etc. The plant's annual LDPE production capacity is 130,000 tonnes. Polymir was founded in 1968. The producer uses 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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