MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shin-Etsu is in plans to shut its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for a maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant is scheduled to be taken off-stream in May 2016. It is likely to remain off-stream for around four weeks.
Located in Kashima, Japan, the plant has a production capacity of 550,000 mt/year.
We remind that, as MRC informed before, in 2015, Shintech Inc. added almost 700 million pounds of PVC capacity as part of a USD500 million expansion of its plants in Louisiana. Shintech's parent firm - Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. of Tokyo - said in a June 19 news release that the firm will addd 660 million pounds of PVC capacity in Louisiana by 2015. Houston-based Shintech makes PVC in Plaquemine and Addis, La. The project also includes 660 million pounds of new capacity for PVC feedstock vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and 440 million pounds of new capacity for caustic soda.
Shin-Etsu is the world and US' largest PVC producer.
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