MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiyo Vinyl is likely to take its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant off-stream for a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant is planned to be shut in Q1, 2017. The plant is expected to be taken off-line in March-April 2017 and will remain shut for around 4-5 weeks.
Located in Yokkaichi in Japan, the PVC plant has a production capacity of 310,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported before, in mid-April 2016, Taiyo Vinyl restarted its PVC plant following a maintenance turnaround. The plant was taken offstream in early March 2016. Located in Yokkaichi in Japan, the PVC plant has a production capacity of 310,000 mt/year.
Besides, Taiyo Vinyl took off-stream its another PVC plant for a maintenance turnaround on August 17, 2016. The plant remained shut for around four weeks. Located in Chiba in Japan, the PVC plant has a production capacity of 90,000 mt/year.
Taiyo Vinyl Corporation, a subsidiary of Tosoh Group, is one of Japan's largest manufacturers of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The plant in Chiba is one of the company's key assests, which supplies 50% of its products to the domestic market. The company also produces PVC at the plants in Yokkaichi and Osaka with the annual capacity of 310,000 and 150,000 tonnes, respectively.
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