MOSCOW (MRC) -- Polymir plant, part of Naftan, had resumed operations at Unit No. 105, which was shut down on 27 April because of the ethylene emissions, by Friday, 6 May, said the company's source to MRC.
The plant's customers said operations at Unit No. 105 (the second line of low density polyethylene (LDPE) production) were completely restored after the forced outage due to the fire on 27 April. Operations at the second line was originally scheduled to be resumed during the day after the fire, but the start-up was delayed because of technical issues.
As MRC reported previously, in early April. Polymir announced a schedule of shutdowns for maintenance at its facilities in 2016. Thus, Polymir's chief engineer Sergei Selivanov said the first line of PE production would be shut down for a 14-day turnaround from 12 June. Unit No. 201 of monomer production will be stopped from 22 June to 10 July. In the second half of July, scheduled two-week maintenance works will take place at the plant's fiber production. And in September, the second line of PE production will be sut for 30 days.
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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