MOSCOW (MRC) - Russia's unmixed polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production reached 89,800 tonnes in January 2018, up 14% compared with the same time a year earlier. All producers showed a significant increase in production, according to MRC ScanPlast report.
January production of unmixed PVC in Russia grew to 89,800 tonnes, compared with 78,900 tonnes in January 2017 and 85,700 tonnes in December 2017. All producers increased capacity utilisation but the main increase showed SayanskKhimPlast and RusVinyl. Total PVC production in Russia reached 906,200 tonnes in 2017.
The structure of PVC production by plants looked the following way over the stated period.
RusVinyl (joint venture of SIBUR and SolVin) produced about 31,200 tonnes of PVC in January, with about 2,800 tonnes of which accounted for emulsion polyvinyl chloride (EPVC), compared to 25,300 tonnes in January 2017 and 29,700 a month earlier. The overall PVC production at RusVinyl in 2017 totalled 312,700 tonnes.
SayanskKhimPlast last month kept sufficiently high level of capacity utilisation, with January PVC production reached 27,100 tonnes, while last year's January and December level reached 22,900 tonnes and 24,800 tonnes, respectively. Total PVC production at SayanskKhimPlast in 2017 was 263,500 tonnes.
Bashkir Soda Company produced about 23,300 tonnes of SPVC in January, compared with 22,700 tonnes in January 2017 and 22,100 tonnes in December 2017. Total SPVC production at Bashkir Soda Company in 2017 was 243,000 tonnes.
Kaustik (Volgograd) in January slightly decreased production, reaching about 8,200 tonnes in SPVC, compared with 8,000 tonnes in January 2017 and 8,100 tonnes in December 2017. Total PVC production at Kaustik (Volgograd) in 2017 reached 87,000 tonnes.
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