MOSCOW (MRC) -- SP Chemicals is likely to shut its No.1 vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant for maintenance, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has planned to take its the plant off-stream in early-August, 2018. The plant is slated to remian under maintenance for around one month.
Located at Taixing in Jiangsu province of China, the No. 1 plant has a production capacity of 200,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, SP Chemicals undertook a planned shutdown at its styrene monomer (SM) plant at Jiangsu on November 6, 2017. The plant remained under maintenance for about 4 weeks. Located at Taixing in Jiangsu province of China, the plant has a production capacity of 320,000 mt/year.
SP Chemicals, a Singapore-based company is one of the largest ion-membrane chlor-alkali producer and aniline producer in the PRC. SP Chemicals engages in the manufacture and sale of the chemical industry's basic building blocks - caustic soda, chlorine, hydrogen and its related downstream products. The company's products include: aniline, caustic soda, chlorine, chlorobenzene, nitrochlorobenzene, nitrobenzene, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). To further drive its growth, SP Chemicals plans to invest approximately RMB1.1 billion in facilities for the production of styrene monomer, an intermediate raw chemical used in making polystyrene plastics, protective coatings, polyesters and resins.
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