MOSCOW (MRC) -- Poliom (JV of Titan, SIBUR and Gazprom Neft) resumed its polypropylene (PP) production after a scheduled maintenance, reported MRC analysts.
Yesterday, on 7 November, Poliom resumed operations at its PP production after a short planned turnaround. As the plant's customers' said the outage began on 26 October.
This is virtually the last scheduled maintenance at Russian PP producers this year. In late October, Stavrolen resumed its PP production after a long shutdown for a turnaround.
As MRC reported earlier, Poliom produced about 161,000 tonnes of PP in the first nine months of 2017, whereas the plant manufactured 202,900 tonnes of PP for the whole last year.
Poliom Ltd., a JV of Gazprom Neft JV, SIBUR and Titan, which was established in 2005, is one of the three leaders of Russian polypropylene (PP) producers. The plant, which started operation on 9 February, 2013, was built using Basell technology, with Tecnimont being the supplier of technological equipment. It can produce 98 different grades of PP (homo-, stat-, block copolymers). Poliom's production capacity is 210,000 tonnes of PP per year.
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