MOSCOW (MRC) - Tomskneftekhim (TNKhK), a subsidiary of SIBUR and one of the largest Russian producers of polymers - polypropylene (PP) and high density polyethylene (LDPE), started the serial shutdown of the production of polyolefins for scheduled maintenance work, said the company's customers.
TNKhK on Monday began the process of the shutdown of the production of polyethylene and polypropylene for the preventive maintenances. The company's customers reported it had been suspended the work of one of the two lines for LDPE production. The producer shuts the polyolefins production completely by the end of the week. The maintenance works are scheduled to be conducted during one month.
During the turnaround producer also intends to complete the last stage of the modernisation of LDPE production, which involves increasing capacity by 30,000 tonnes/year -. to 270,000 tonnes/year. The total volume of investments in modernisation amounted to almost 11 billion roubles.
The producer finished modernisation of PP production in 2015, having increases plant capacity from 130,000 to 140,000 tonnes/year.
Tomskneftekhim LLC is a subsidiary of SIBUR and one of the largest Russian producers of polymers - polypropylene and low density polyethylene. The capacity for Tomskneftekhim's production of LDPE is 240,000 tonnes/year, PP production is 140,000 tonnes/year, ethylene production 300 tonnes/year.
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