MOSCOW (MRC) - Russia's largest producer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) - RusVinyl, a joint venture of SIBUR and SolVin, has stopped production for scheduled preventive maintenance, according to company representatives.
The plant was shut down on 19 September. The outage of the plant will last at least two weeks. The producer plans to fully resume the PVC production by early October.
This is the last routine maintenance shutdown at Russian PVC producers in the current year. Kaustik Volgograd shut its PVC production in the late May. SayanskKhimPlast had to shut its PVC production from mid-February to July.
Bashkir Soda Company does not plan to stop its capacities for scheduled maintenance works this year.
RusVinyl began production of suspension PVC (SPVC) in the test mode in August 2014. The official launch of the plant in Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod region) took place on 19, September. Total production of resin at RusVinyl in the first eight months of this year was about 209,400 tonnes, compared with 153,900 tonnes year on year. The design capacity is 300,000 tonnes/year of SPVC and 30,000 tonnes/year of emulsion polyvinyl chloride (EPVC).
Its caustic soda production capacity is 225,000 tonnes/year. RusVinyl got ethylene from the complex SIBUR-Kstovo, which have been recently expanded to 360,000 tonnes/year. Rock salt is delivered by water transport from the Astrakhan region and rail from Belarus. All produced polyvinyl chloride will be sold in the domestic market.
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