MOSCOW (MRC) - Kaustik (Volgograd), subsidiary of Nikokhim group, plans to shut down production production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for scheduled maintenance works in May. The maintenance works will last more than two weeks, according to ICIS-MRC Price Report.
The representatives of the company said the plan would be shut from 13 May to 31 May. Its annual production capacity is 90,000 tonnes. This is the first preventive maintenance of Russian PVC producers. Next turnaround will take place at RusVinyl in September. Bashkir Soda Company (BSC) has no plans to stop for scheduled maintenance works this year.
As it was reported earlier, PVC output at Kaustik (Volgograd) exceeded 7,900 tonnes in March compared with 7,600 tonnes in February. Total PVC production at the plant exceeded 23,700 tonnes in January-March 2016, which was practically equal to last year's level.
Nikokhim Group companies - one of the leaders of the Russian chemical industry, the main production assets are located in the southern industrial hub of Volgograd. The holding company includes: JSC "Caustic" - principal place of business group, manufactures basic products - caustic soda, chloroparaffins, synthetic hydrochloric acid, chlorine, polyvinyl chloride, sodium hypochlorite, etc .; CJSC "NikoMag" produces anti-icing materials, magnesium chloride, magnesium oxide and hydroxide; Ltd. "Zirax" produces high-purity reagents for various industries and of "Poligran" produces plastic compounds and rigid PVC compounds.
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